The fashion Olympics took place last night and have the internet shivering with excitement today. Across social media thousands of people are sharing their favourite, and respectably - least favourite outfits from some of the biggest celebrities.
The Met Gala is an annual fundraising event held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in Manhattan, New York. It is popularly regarded as the world's most prestigious and glamorous fashion event and social gathering and is known as "fashion's biggest night"; an invitation is highly sought after.
To start off on a high, let's look at the top 3 looks of the event:
Tyla (left) wore a custom Balmain dress and stole the show. The look perfectly encapsulated the Met's theme of the year - referencing fragility, art and time. The hourglass accessory just added this pinch me moment and through the event, images appeared of her cutting the dress shorter, which made it even more endearing.
Elle Fanning (middle) Balmain has taken over the reins of the Met Gala 2024, with yet another stunning artistic creation - a custom gown hand-covered in four layers of resin to create this stunning wet effect, accessorised by two birds which create for a lifting off effect.
Zendaya (right) John Galliano is no stranger to a fantastic gown design, and with this one he absolutely blew the competition out of the water. He referenced his own 90s look while working at the helm of Dior but now created under the Maison Margiela house name.
The theme of this year's exhibition at the Museum is titled Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which is said to reactivate the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum's collection through research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies. The exhibition will feature cutting-edge tools, artificial intelligence, and computer-generated images, as well as, traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes, to bring back to life archival pieces that have long been tucked away due to fear of complete oblivion. In celebration of the exhibition theme, the dress code for the Benefit is “The Garden of Time.” (albeit, frankly unsure whether everyone gathered that theme since so many were a miss this season)
A few very memorable, perhaps even future archival pieces that could join the Met also include:
Kim Kardashian (left) wore a custom Maison Margiela dress, complemented by a grey piling cardigan which the internet is giving her heat for. The gown features a stunning metallic foliage mesh reminding us of a garden fence.
Wisdom Kaye (middle) is in a striking red floral Robert Wun ensemble that looks to have had a blowtorch taken to its edges, leaning into the theme of bloom and decay.
Quannah Chasinghorse (right) designed her ball gown for the 2024 Met Gala, which had a "The Garden of Time" dress code, in collaboration with H&M, choosing a periwinkle fabric inspired by forget-me-nots, the flower of her home state, Alaska.
Sarah Jessica Parker (left) - Parker's sculptural look was inspired by the shape of a bird cage and created by British designer Richard Quinn, with a larger-than-life hat from Phillip Treacy
Lana Del Rey (middle) wore a stunning 2006 Alexander McQueen look from the Widows of Culloden collection, which is currently in preservation at the MET.
Mindy Kaling (right) in a custom gown by Gaurav Gupta which beautifully flowed down her figure forming a flower in the middle of the back.
And the award for the worst dressed on the Met Gala 2024 official red carpet is:
Rita Ora
Doesn't this ''look'', for a lack of a more respectful word, remind you of one of those curtains you will find in a fortune teller's tent at a Summer circus in some God forbidden village? She claims the gown is meant to be a beaded necklace which extends down her body, but I beg to disagree.
The people who turned up in the right outfit to the wrong event:
Lea Michele (left) - In a Rodarte dress running late for her pregnancy photoshoot stumbled upon a red carpet event in Manhattan and decided to join.
Jennifer Lopez (middle) playing it safe in a usual form fitted hour glass silhouette designed by Daniel Roseberry at Schiaparelli. According to sources, this gown was embroidered with silver pearls and over two million silver foil beads that took 800 hours of hand embroidery to complete, according to Schiaparelli.
Jessica Biel (right) - a feathery pink dress from Tamara Ralph Couture
Outfits that made us look twice, and made us gasp right after, and those who should be banished from the Gala for wearing them:
Amelia Gray (left) wears one of the terrarium dresses made by designer Jun Takahashi for his Spring 2024 undercover show. One could say that at least she took a risk, did it pay off - not quite, it is almost too costume-y.
Doja Cat (middle) - while gimmicks have been a long time favourite way of grabbing everyone's attention, Met Gala should be a place where she uses her creativity in a more productive way, such as coming up with a wowing look, rather than simply a wet looking dress. Although, she probably gathered the point by the end, since those glittery tears resemble ours when we saw her walk out on that carpet wearing this. The ''gown'' was made by Guram Gvasalia from Vetements and is meant to take inspiration from a roman garden statue.
Ayo Adebiri (right) in a custom lace Loewe dress in hand-painted and hand-embroidered to create an optical illusion of 3D flowers. Just because it is Loewe, we do not need to love it, and just because it is hand painted, does not make it art. The lack of shape, as well as, the neckline are a huge ick to the fashion community.
Some other interesting looks were:
Nicki Minaj (left) in a yellow Marni dress. Some considered this look the crowning moment of the Met Gala 2024, while others argued that she could of reached further out, while rather simplistic in terms of directly referencing the flower motif of the event, it is a beautiful show of art and fashion. She paired the look with yellow leather heels and an iconic bob hairstyle.
Bad Bunny (middle) wore a custom Maison Margiela look to the event and we could not take our eyes off. It consisted of a nave jacket with matching trousers with red details on the inside of the leg, and seam measurements in white covered the entire look, as if he took it away from the designer before the look was even completed. The look was ''finished' with black Tabis embellished with fur, black leather gloves, diamond-shaped sunglasses and one of the most beautiful hats reminding us of a Renaissance painting.
Nicole Kidman (right) in an incredible Balenciaga ball gown. It is a reference to an original Cristobal Balenciaga haute couture design from 1951. It's a strapless dress with an ivory satin bodice and half skirt, overlaying a voluminous skirt made out of black ruffles. The look was paired with opera-length gloves and Harry Winston diamond bracelets.
