Met Gala 2024: Best Dressed List
For this year’s Met Gala Ball the strict dress code was “The Garden of Time” based on the art-centric dystopian J.G Ballard short story (1962) that narrates an episode where their crystalline flower with translucent leaves garden ends up bare which gave us a bachanal of beautiful botanical and ephemeral creations from the best couture and fashion houses around the globe.
Many celebrities, designers and stylists did their work in an impeccable mode. Here is my top list:
Zendaya: Co-chair of the Met Gala wore looks styled by celebrity stylist Law Roach and looked fabulous and so romantic in a gown designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela in shimmering hues of greens and blues inspired by the XIX century peacock room and to accesorize it she wore a veiled fascinator topped with a glimmer in feather. Just a vision.
Tyla: The South African singer embodied one of the big momentum’s of the Met Gala wearing a dress designed by Olivier Rousteing for Balmain inspired by the concept of time bringing to life an hourglass creation where technical achievents were brought to life by technology with te material imbibed in actual sand.
Lana del Rey: An accurate look for the evening from Alexander MQueen, an allegory to the German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich, a revisited version from a 1996 look created by MQueen at the time.
-Nicole Kidman: So chic! The actress wore a creation inspired in an original Cristobal Balenciaga dress from 1951, recreated by Balenciaga’s creative directos Demna. Corseted top in white duchess satin with voluminous skirt and a frontal cascade of black tulle reminiscing a flamenco dancer. Perfection!
- Gigi Hadid: For the occasion Hadid wore a magnificent gown designed by Thom Browne. A majestic satin duchesse long dress with a gigantic train. The dress itself is a masterpiece and took more than 13,000 hours of hand embroidery to recreate the beautiful yellow Flowers.
Isabelle Huppert: A true homage to French house “Callot Soeurs” ( Huppert is Marthe Bertrand’s great great granddaughter ) one of the maisons founders along with her 3 sisters Marie, Régina and Josephine. She appeared with a reinterpretation of a wedding gown from 1930 which is exhibited in “Sleeping Beauties: The Reawakening of Fashion”. Demna for Balenciaga designed a liquid gown with a dramatically long train and on her wrist she tied an embroidered lace handkerchief. La belle au bois dormant reawakened.
To be continued!
Titina Penzini