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Over the years, the Met Gala has been the scene of intractable celebrity moments, from Lady Gaga’s elaborate holiday provocation to Rihanna’s mesmerizing functionality in the most sensible place at a table. And who could be right when Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston first got caught dancing flirtatiously, sparking the Hiddleswift phenomenon that feels old now that we’re firmly in the Travis era?Take a vacation on the path of reminiscence with this list of the craziest celebrity moments at the Met.
The Met Gala is rarely known for attracting attendees who play it with their clothes, however, Doja Cat took fashion’s transformation to a whole new point with her 2023 look: She arrived dressed as Choupette, Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved cat, in a traditional handmade dress. Dress and hood with ears assembled by Oscar de La Renta’s co-creative directors, Laura Kim and Fernando García. Meow, indeed!
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No matter how hard you try to keep them away, New York’s pests (and partygoers, really) deter, as this lone cockroach proved when it appeared on the red carpet at the Met Gala in 2023 and likely stole the show. .
In a move that greatly delighted enthusiasts and infuriated fashion curators in equal measure, for the 2022 “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” gala, Kim Kardashian turned to Ripley’s Believe It Or Not museum in Orlando to borrow a very special piece: the shape. The tight Jean-Louis dress that Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade John F. Kennedy on his birthday in 1962. ” Everything had to be at a specific time and I had to practice getting up the stairs,” Kardashian told Vogue of the strict precautions taken for Protect the dress, which was auctioned off for a staggering $4. 8 million in 2016.
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Selected to co-chair the 2021 “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” gala with Naomi Osaka, Amanda Gorman and Billie Eilish, Timothée Chalamet arrived at his first Met with (what else?) a crowd of screaming enthusiasts in his wake-up. In a virtual artwork livestreamed on Instagram, Chalamet traveled to the museum from Frick Madison, where he had collaborated with French artist JR and composer Nicholas Britell on a dazzling installation. Needless to say, other people were too keen to move forward. , either hands-on or face-to-face.
There are simply no words to describe the functionality Lady Gaga unveiled at the 2019 Met Gala for “Camp: Notes on Fashion. “The actress and singer appeared in a fuchsia Brandon Maxwell cape dressed in a 25-foot tail, layer after layer. until she writhed on the steps of the Met in lingerie, fishnet stockings, and soaring heels. No one does it better!
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Why limit yourself to jewelry or watches when you can walk the Met Gala carpet holding your own head as the ultimate accessory?That’s precisely what Leto did in 2019, thanks to Gucci (the severed heads first made the impression on the runway in the fall). 2018), and it was scary and to look the other way.
It was the moment no one expected: On the red carpet of the “Heavenly Bodies: Catholic Fashion and Imagination” gala, rapper 2 Chainz introduced his spouse to Kesha Ward. Ward thankfully agreed, as the crowd of photographers shouted and cheered, but not so fast. As it turned out, 2 Chainz had also popped the question to Ward five years earlier, at the BET Awards. (What can I say: men like grand gestures!) The couple finally tied the knot in August.
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For “Heavenly Bodies,” Katy Perry descended on the Met dressed in a traditional Versace creation with angel wings. It’s one of the most memorable sets of the night, and the most productive factor is that you needed an open-top car to get there. . Ahead of the red carpet, the singer was spotted calmly strolling through the streets of Manhattan, with her theatrical wings spread out in full view of all pedestrians in general.
Several weeks before attending the Met Gala celebrating “Rei Kawakubo: Art of the In-Between,” Smith cut off his faded dreadlocks for a role in the film Life in a Year. It turned out that they would place a moment of life in red. carpet, where he carried them in his hand. ” I couldn’t bring my sister as a date,” Smith explained enigmatically at the time, “so I brought my hair. “Perhaps in homage to his viral hit “Whip My Hair”?
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The Italian designer celebrated her 61st birthday at the 2016 Met Gala. Luckily, her close friend Lady Gaga made it a memorable, unexpected moment with Donatella wearing a gold-covered three-wheeled cake adorned with the Versace logo.
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Sharp-eyed enthusiasts got their first glimpse of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston’s summer romance at the 2016 Met Gala, where the pair filmed flirting restlessly at the Temple of Dendur.
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After Beyoncé released her groundbreaking visual album Lemonade, the singer was the subject of much speculation, adding to the prestige of her marriage to Jay Z. About a week later, Queen Bey surprised everyone by appearing alone on the Met’s red carpet, dressed in a nude latex Givenchy Number (look for jokes on the web about what happened to “Becky with the beautiful hair”).
Rihanna might have launched a meme bonanza at the 2015 Met Gala in her gold fur-trimmed Guo Pei dress, but her other biggest moment of the night was the opening performance of her song “Bitch Better Have My Money” during a dinner party.
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How do you know you’re rock royalty? When you can show up at the Met Gala dressed in do-it-yourselfers.
If Princess Di performed at the 1996 Met Gala; Does this mean that there is still hope for a Princess of Wales in the future?
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It’s hard to believe that this photo of Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss was taken more than two decades ago. What makes it even better? All of them remain pillars of the Met Gala.
Decades before her inimitable taste became the subject of the 2001 Met exhibition “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years – Selections from the John F. Kennedy,” our First Lady of Fashion attended the Met Gala as a guest in 1979.
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