
Lizzo, meanwhile, got the crowd cheering when she played her gold flute for fans watching the parade of fashion outside. She wore a tight-as-skin, blood red Latex catsuit with a corseted bodice and huge, heavy quilted coat from Versace. Gigi Hadid was more redefined cat woman than golden girl. “Instead of looking to fashion to influence the dress, I looked to New York City architecture,” Lively said.Ĭardi B, accompanied by Donatella Versace, was an over-the-top golden goddess in a dress of mesh and chains, a fitting birthday for the designer. Her look drew inspiration from the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building and the blue ceiling of Grand Central Station. Lively, one of the evening’s co-hosts, wore a bronze and rose gold look that transformed into a shimmery layer of baby blue as a large bow was pulled.

“Black and white are THE colors for the evening,” said Holly Katz, a stylist and host of the Fashion Crimes podcast. Others paid literal homage to New York City, home base for the Gilded Age, and still more shimmered in metallic golds and silver. The celebration of American design was themed to gilded glamour, sprouting classic black tailed tuxedoes for many of the men and lots of dresses in black and white for the women. But she only wore the fragile original dress for her walk up the Grand Staircase at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, changing into a replica after that, according to Vogue.Įarlier, Blake Lively smiled for the cameras in a grand Atelier Versace gown, with husband Ryan Reynolds in brown velvet, Billie Eilish went with an upcycled green lace-trim dress from Gucci and Cynthia Erivo wore sheer white Louis Vuitton with a matching head piece as the Met Gala returned to its berth on the first Monday in May after years of pandemic upheaval. Her hair was platinum and pulled tightly into a bun. Kardashian, with boyfriend Pete Davidson at her side, paired the dress with Cartier white gold drop diamond earrings and a furry white jacket she kept strategically low to cover her backside. It has been known as the “Happy Birthday, Mr.

president” on May 19, 1962, at a Madison Square Garden fundraiser. It was so tight Monroe had to be sewn into it when she purred “Happy birthday, Mr.
