Met Gala guests put on a show on the red carpet for fashion's biggest night of the year
The charity event is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and draws A-list celebrities and the who's who of the fashion world
Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny joined Vogue’s Anna Wintour as hosts
Guests included Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, Dua Lipa, Serena Williams, Jeff Goldblum and Doja Cat
The 2024 theme is The Garden of Time - a short story about a Count and Countess who pluck time-reversing flowers
The event raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and tickets are rumoured to cost upwards of $70,000 (£56,000)
Brandon Drenon
Reporting from the red carpet
Ed Sheeran tells us reporters it’s his first Met Gala.
He’s accompanied by fashion mogul Stella McCartney.
She jokes that he left his dress at home, so instead Sheeran is “stuck” wearing a powder blue tuxedo she designed.
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
The Espresso singer takes the Sleeping Beauties theme literally in a duvet-esque gown.
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Brandon Drenon
Reporting from the red carpet
Dwyane Wade enters the scene with his wife, Gabrielle Union.
The power couple is highly sought after by media crews crammed together on the red carpet’s edge.
When asked what inspired his look, Wade says: "I wanted to be like this right here”, then pulls out a single white rose.
“I just wanted to come out here and wear something beautiful.”
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Fashion critic
Image source, Getty ImagesLana Del Rey
… Lana del Rey, in custom Alexander McQueen, inspired by his 2006 Widows of Culloden collection, as interpreted by the newly appointed head designer of the house, Sean McGirr.
Don’t take an eye out with those antlers, Lana!
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Fashion critic
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There might be some consternation between the wider Sleeping Beauties theme of sustainability and circularity, and the overconsumption of the $3 trillion fashion industry.
And sustainability can sometimes be hard to find in the interpretations on the notoriously maximalist red carpet.
Stella McCartney has been a longtime champion of cruelty-free and sustainable practices in her work, and tonight’s looks—worn by Cara Delevingne, Ed Sheeran, and his wife Cherry Seaborn—feature zero-emissions VRAI created diamonds.
According to a press release from Stella McCartney, who will have two dresses in the Met exhibition, Delevigne’s red carpet look is “the most sustainable” of her cohort, and has “the emission equivalency of recycling 11.3 tons of waste instead of it going to a landfill, since every carat of VRAI created diamonds produced saves 143 lbs of carbon dioxide.”
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Nicole Kidman always brings the glamour, and tonight is no exception in custom Balenciaga, a reinterpretation of a gown from the 1950s as imagine by creative director Demna.
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Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
Image source, Getty ImagesMany were expecting Kylie Jenner to arrive on the arm of her beau Timothée Chalamet, much to the ire of Club Chalamet.
But tonight she appears solo in a bullet bra-style column gown with a voluminous train.
She's wearing Oscar de la Renta, like her mum Kris Jenner was earlier.
Brandon Drenon
Reporting from the red carpet
Image source, Getty ImagesDua Lipa, Doja Cat, and Kylie Jenner are all on the steps of the Met.
Cameras are firing in rapid succession.
Everyone is screaming their names. Doja Cat’s name is yelled the most.
She’s on brand tonight in her outfit, wearing what looks like a soaked white t-shirt turned dress.
Earlier, she was spotted leaving her hotel in just a towel.
Brandon Drenon
Reporting from the red carpet
Oscar-winner Da'Vine Joy Randolph graces the Met’s steps with yards-long, flowing denim - a custom gown from Gap.
“It’s epic, it’s iconic, it’s a moment,” she says, describing her outfit.
“This is like a dream come true. I’ve always wanted to be at this event. This is my first Met. It’s a big deal to me.”
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Reporting from the red carpet
"I love birds-of-paradise," she says, pointing to the beaded flowers on her dress.
"It’s one of my mom’s favourite flowers too."
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Fashion critic
Image source, Getty ImagesKim Kardashian is famous for many things, not least of which are her controversial Met Gala looks.
This time around she seems to be slightly more subdued in a muted metallic star-motif gown from Margiela by John Galliano, a cropped cardi around her shoulders and tousled bed hair to match.
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Fashion critic
Image source, GettyKendall Jenner
Kendall Jenner “did her research” on the Sleeping Beauties theme, which is indicative in her choice of archival Givenchy from 1999, designed by Alexander McQueen.
She’s tells the red carpet cameras she is the “first human to wear it”.
It nods to the delicate “sleeping beauties” peppered throughout the actual exhibition inside the museum - garments that are too delicate to ever be worn.
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Image source, Getty ImagesOne of the richest men in the world, Jeff Bezos, and his fiancée Lauren Sanchez
Image source, Getty ImagesGeorgina Bloomberg, New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg and Diana Taylor
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Fashion critic
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One of the sections in the Met Gala exhibition is "Air" - which we’re seeing reflected in the aerial motifs worn by the likes of Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson and Adrian Brody.
Elle Fanning, Arianna Grande (attending alongside her Wicked co-star Cynthia Erivo) and Mona Patel have opted for butterfly wings, the latter of whom has kinetic Lepidoptera fluttering down her arms.
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Reporting from the red carpet
Ariana Grande arrived in a white ethereal number.
The pop star is starring in an upcoming movie adaptation of the musical Wicked.
“My first day of set on Wicked was the most emotional day of my life,” she tells us as she walks the carpet.
Image source, Getty ImagesAriana Grande
Brandon Drenon
Reporting from the red carpet
Rita Ora cruises up the Met Gala steps - for the tenth time, she says - wearing not a dress, but as she describes it: “a necklace”.
“Who am I not wearing tonight, you know what I'm saying,” she tells reporters, before giving a wink.
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
Body language: Kylie Minogue is making hearts go padam padam in this printed sequined sheath gown by Diesel.
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