FINALLY! This year’s Met Gala — one of the world’s biggest nights in fashion — officially arrived. After missing 2020 due to the pandemic, AND missing it’s annual May 2021 date, this year’s preempted and postponed “fashion prom” was back this month.
The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Gala or the Costume Institute Benefit and sometimes known as the Met Ball, is the one night a year when the biggest names in the industry, from designers and models to “It” girls (and boys, and non-binaries), sports icons, and A-list celebs, all gather to see and be seen (and to raise a few million dollars for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute).
This year’s exhibition, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” is part one of a two-part mega display of the relevancy and power of American fashion, and guests are expected to walk up the museum’s iconic steps in whatever patriotism means to them. This year’s corresponding gala theme was “American Independence” which gave attendees a wide berth of ideas to play with from founding fathers in powdered wigs and star-spangled gowns, to Lady Liberty cosplay and, of course, all things red, white, and blue.
The 2021 A-list of Attendees did not disappoint. From Amanda Gorman in a royal blue Vera Wang to Dan Levy in Loewe x David Wojnarowicz, to co-chair Billie Eilish channeling Marilyn Monroe in Oscar de la Renta, to co-chair Naomi Osaka’s gravity-defying hair wearing Louis Vuitton, to Lil Nas X in not one, not two, but three variations of gold Versace, to… whatever it was Kim Kardashian was doing covered head and face to fingers and toes in black, it was, well, it was everything you could hope for and MORE.
So how did your favorite fashion people interpret the dress code? Click here to view the fashionista.com gallery, to see every look from the 2021 Met Gala red carpet from the fantastic to the freakish to the absolutely fabulous, dahling.
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