Groundbreaking? No, but these celebrities won the Met Gala red carpet

1 week ago 6

Almost arsenic soon arsenic Anna Wintour stepped onto the Met Gala reddish carpet, The Devil Wears Prada memes started to flow.

Florals, for spring? Groundbreaking. Yada, yada.

Nicole Kidman with Keith Urban astatine the Met Gala.

Still, successful making the taxable of this year’s Gala, “The Garden of Time”, Wintour and her co-chairs – Zendaya, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Jennifer Lopez – ensured florals were what we’d get.

Here are the stars who delivered champion connected the taxable – and a fewer who conscionable nailed lawsuit dressing, adjacent if you needed a microscope to find the references.

The Rihanna grant for shutting down the carpet: Zendaya

You person to manus it to the Challengers prima who has kept up the momentum of the film’s property tour, for which she was clothed by Loewe decorator Jonathan Anderson, and proceeded to ain the Met Gala reddish carpet from aboriginal successful the innings successful her relation arsenic lawsuit co-chair.

Her archetypal look was a recreation of a 1999 haute couture look by John Galliano for Christian Dior, the lawsuit serving arsenic a benignant of red-carpet redemption for the once-outcast designer who present helms Maison Margiela.

Two for the terms of 1 … Zendaya successful 2 John Galliano creations connected the Met Gala reddish carpet.

Not to beryllium outdone – and possibly due to the fact that Rihanna was a no-show – Zendaya walked the reddish carpet twice, the 2nd clip successful different Galliano look, this clip from his clip astatine Givenchy.

Not since Rihanna appeared arsenic a cardinal astatine the 2018 gala has a prima made arsenic large an interaction connected the carpet.

The Edward Scissorhands grant for edgy florals: Cynthia Erivo

The abundance of florals was definite to make a surplus of beauteous looks (see Rebecca Hall, Ayo Edebiri and adjacent Nicki Minaj, arsenic a walking angiosperm pot), truthful it was near to immoderate of the amusement world’s edgier stars to marque the lawsuit for “no wallflowers allowed”.

Punk princess … Cynthia Erivo successful Thom Browne.

Enter Cynthia Erivo, who arrived with her Wicked co-star Grande – who did her champion Glinda the Good Witch impersonation successful customized Loewe – and channelled Elphaba, if she were to be a stone concert, successful a Thom Browne two-piece suit with a bare midriff and collar and necktie for conscionable capable punk to offset the princess florals.

As if that weren’t enough, Erivo fastened a brooch – different 1 of the night’s micro-trends – to the backmost of her head. Kids, bash not effort this astatine home.

The Best Western grant for cowboy couture: Lil Nas X

Given Cowboy Carter singer Beyonce and Flowers vocalist Miley Cyrus were notable no-shows astatine this year’s gala (she past attended successful 2016), it fell to rapper Lil Nas X to bring a small state to the carpet. Because, let’s look it, Keith Urban is ne'er going to marque a manner statement.

Lil Nas X successful Luar astatine the Met Gala.

“I wanted to beryllium similar a blossoming flower,” helium told reporters astir his look, which was a collaboration with Luar’s Raul Lopez.

The suit featured 50,000 Swarovski crystals and 2000 covered buttons. And, portion it wasn’t arsenic connected taxable arsenic past year, erstwhile helium dressed arsenic a crystal cat successful honour of Karl Lagerfeld’s beloved favored Choupette, it was a batch little costume-y, and a batch much fashion.

The Glad Wrap grant for the freshest instrumentality connected ‘naked’ dressing: Greta Lee

While the Met Gala isn’t mostly a forum for mounting trends – though expect searches for “grey (pilled) cardigan” to spike aft Kim Kardashian’s outing – determination were immoderate communal threads connected the reddish carpet.

Though the bare formal inclination beloved by the aforementioned Kardashian-Jenner clan, arsenic good arsenic by Australia’s ain Kylie Minogue, and exemplary Emily Ratajkowski – whose “g-string” Atelier Versace formal gave Tania Buckley astatine the 2001 Brownlow vibes – galore hold it’s a look that should beryllium retired.

And past comes Past Lives histrion Greta Lee successful Loewe and abruptly each our worst bare formal associations are reframed. She whitethorn person missed retired connected an Oscar nomination, but she decidedly deserves a statuette for this caller instrumentality connected a tortured trend.

The ‘you won’t spot this astatine the Oscars’ award: Taylor Russell

At the extremity of the day, the Met Gala is the lawsuit wherever celebrities are invited to chopped escaped and bring their manner A-game, which made awarding the past of the best-of a torturous task.

Runners-up included Nicole Kidman successful a re-make of a 1950s Balenciaga gown, and Mindy Kaling, whose Gaurav Gupta gown deserves a notation for not lone being the champion Kaling has ever looked, but besides for the exquisite pleating and corsetry.

Still, successful deciding who wins this award, attraction indispensable beryllium taken to manus it to idiosyncratic whose outfit would not beryllium seen anyplace else.

And connected that basis, histrion Taylor Russell wins for her Loewe creation, implicit with a bodice crafted from wood, which not lone spoke perfectly to the theme, but pushed fashion’s boundaries successful caller and breathtaking ways.

Make the astir of your health, relationships, fittingness and nutrition with our Live Well newsletter. Get it successful your inbox each Monday.