Met Gala 2024
The 3 most elaborate robes under the theme “Garden of Time”
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It’s Met Gala time! Year after year we look forward to the red carpet in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. No effort is wasted on this day; The stars let their fashion sparks fly at the Met Gala on the first Monday in May. These are the four most elaborate robes in 2024.
Who wears the most creative look? This is the question of questions that traditionally concerns the fashion world the most on the first Monday in May. Because on this day, “Vogue” editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, 74, invites you to the annual Met Gala and here the unspoken motto is “don’t spill, but make a mess.” Just look pretty? After all, everyone can and that’s how celebrities and their styling teams use it Opportunity to let your imagination run wild with extraordinary fabrics, cuts and hidden references. At the forefront in 2024: Gigi Hadid and Penélope Cruz don’t need to be asked twice and set off a fashionable fireworks display A lot of effort went into her gowns for this year’s Met Gala.
13,500 hours: No dress at the Met Gala is as elaborate as Gigi Hadid’s
Everyone wants to stand out at the Met Gala. Not so easy with an already exclusive crowd. It’s not always enough to unpack the finest silk or the most voluminous tulle; time and fine details are necessary! Old Met Gala veteran Gigi Hadid, 29, knows this all too well. The model will take part in the exclusive fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the seventh time in 2024 and will invest 13,500 hours for her wow appearance in white. Or better yet, let 70 people invest. In two work steps of 5,000 and 8,500 hours, they first create their off-the-shoulder corset dress with flared hips by Thom Browne and then a matching white silk moiré coat with black edges made of duchesse satin and decorated with yellow 3D roses.
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They are not only a colorful eye-catcher and a floral core element in Gigi’s interpretation of the “Garden of Time”, but with 2.8 million microbeads that were hand-knitted onto the dress, they alone require 20 artisans to work. No other prominent guest on this evening could boast a more complex process.
Demi Lovato shines with 500 handmade flowers on her dress
Welcome back! Singer Demi Lovato, 31, returns to the Met Gala red carpet after an eight-year absence and appears in a true work of art for this special occasion. Her white, strapless couture dress by Prabal Gurung was made entirely by hand for the 2024 Met Gala. The dress’s silk lamé fabric is encrusted with sequins and glass crystals and covered in over 500 hand-cut, mirrored Mylar flowers with jeweled centers. How long did it take for this effort? Demi Lovato and her designer friend won’t tell. But more about the idea behind the design: “The flowers are soft and feminine, but still have a hard, futuristic touch. This is a dress that reflects the complexity of her work as an artist,” says Gurung. This much attention to detail still reveals something about the level of effort.
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Mona Patel: She becomes famous with this futuristic dress
Mona Patel, 43, doesn’t tell you anything? From now on. The native Indian was already on a Forbes 100 list, but with her Met Gala appearance she also made it into the fashion Olympus of the big names. In a custom-made dress by Iris Van Herpen Couture, the entrepreneur floats over the steps of the Met for the very first time and leaves everyone in awe. Together with Zendaya’s stylist Law Roach, the 43-year-old creates her personal social butterfly moment and combines matching bracelets made of small butterflies with her butterfly dress made of sheer organza.
The highlight: Thanks to a small motor on the back, they are in motion the entire time as they ascend New York’s most famous steps, creating a real-life image of a butterfly. The idea came from Mona herself and was made by her friend, kinetic motion artist Casey Curran, up until the day before the Met Gala. All sorts of fashion fans will have butterflies in their stomachs!