The Met Gala is generally referred to as the “Oscars of fashion” for a reason. Every year, A-list celebrities are arrive to airing up the accomplish of the Met Building and appear fashion’s better evening out hosted by Vogue. Last year’s event, which was appointed for the aboriginal Monday of May, was canceled due to the pandemic. But this time around, the Met Gala got here aback for a evening of amaze and allure aloof in time for the abutting of New York Fashion Week.
This year’s affair is “In America: A Dictionary of Fashion”. As usual, it marks the alpha of the Met’s anniversary fashion exhibition. “In America: A Dictionary of Fashion” will be assuming from September 18th, 2021 to September 5th, 2022. Best of this year's ideal appears check the old and the new aback it comes to American fashion.
Ahead, we’re rounding up the ideal in fashion from the 2021 Met Gala.
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Timothée Chalamet
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Timothée Chalamet is one of this year’s Met Gala co-hosts. The 25-year-old selected to cede an admiration to American fashion with an all-white Haider Ackermann outfit. The glassy cape anorak contrasts with a brace of sweatpants and Chuck Taylors, auspiciously bond either low and aerial countenance fashion.
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Ella Emhoff
Ella Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris' stepdaughter, sported an all red Stella McCartney for Adidas outfit. It appearance a architecture cobweb top, agleam pants and arduous sneakers. Emhoff's Met Gala accouterments displays that abundance can beat with aerial fashion.
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Maisie Williams
Maisie Williams wore a gothic-inspired Thom Browne dress.
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Barbie Ferreira
The 'Euphoria' extra paid an admiration to old Hollywood allure with a Jonathan Simkhai fair gown.
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Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish is addition superstar who selected to cede an admiration to old Hollywood allure with a clothes advised by Oscar de la Renta.
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Yara Shahidi
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Yara Shahidi wore a tradition Dior clothes and biscuit head-to-toe veil.
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Lil Nas X
Lil Nas X absolved the Met Gala stairs with not one but 3 tradition Versace outfits. The aboriginal attending was a gold royal-inspired cape, which was aerial to again acknowledge a gold armor. For his last outfit, Lil Nas X wore a bodice coated in crystals.
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Iman
Iman wore a beauteous gold clothes and headpiece advised by Harris Reed.
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Saweetie
Saweetie wore a red dress, as able-bodied as a red-white-and-blue alternation advised by Christian Cowan.
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Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson wore a tradition AZ Factory clothes in account to artist Alber Elbaz, who died of COVID-19 beforehand this year.
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MJ Rodriguez
MJ Rodriguez absolved the Met Gala carpeting in a Thom Browne button-down, draped, and pleated design. "I alarm it this admirable oil spill, carve anxious Victorian look," stated Rodriguez to InStyle. "I acquainted like it was aloof so edgy, but nonetheless evocative of what advanced American fashion appears like. It does not authority to a particular anecdotal of how Americans or fashion, in general, are declared to be—it can be annihilation you appetite it to be as a result of America's actually a melting [pot]."
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Megan Fox
Megan Fox wore a red applique up clothes advised by Dundas.
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Ciara
Ciara wore a applique clothes by Dundas. Her accouterments is additionally a shoutout to her bedmate Russel Wilson. Not alone is she antic Wilson's cardinal 3, but she is additionally cutting his Super Bowl ring.
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Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry absolved the Met accomplish in an American banderole clothes advised by Zac Posen.
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Taraji P. Henson
Taraji P. Henson wore a adorned agent jumpsuit by Moschino.
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Lupita Nyong’o
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Lupita Nyong'o channeled archetypal Americana in a tradition denim clothes by Versace.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a tradition Brother Vellies clothes with "Tax the Rich" accounting in red beyond the back. She is by no means the aboriginal baby-kisser to appear the Met Gala but she is the aboriginal to accomplish a political account on the red carpet.
“We can by no means get too adequate in our seats at the desk already they’ve been given,” said Aurora James to Vogue. James is the architect and artistic administrator of Brother Vellies and the architect of the 15 Percent Pledge. “We charge consistently abide to advance ourselves, advance our colleagues, advance the culture, and advance the nation forward. Fashion is changing; America is changing. And as far as this affair goes, I anticipate Alexandria and I are a abundant apotheosis of the accent fashion wants to accede abacus to the accepted dictionary as we assignment appear a added sustainable, inclusive, and empowered future.”
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Michaela Coel
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Michaela Coel wore a dejected sequined catsuit by Balenciaga.
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Helen Lasichanh and Pharrell Williams
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Pharrell and Helen Lasichanh wore analogous western-inspired appears by Chanel.
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Rosalía
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Rosalía wore a an all-red look, that includes belvedere covering boots and a belted mantón de manila by Rick Owens.
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Kendall Jenner
Kendall Jenner wore a Givenchy clothes aggressive by one of Audrey Hepburn's best iconic appears in My Fair Lady.
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Zoe Kravitz
Kravitz wore a bare clothes absolutely fabricated of rhinestones and advised by Saint Laurent.
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Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Union seemed beauteous in an Iris Van Herpen that confused with her as she absolved up the stairs of the Met museum.
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Jackie Aina
Jackie Aina channeled the iconic American baby Barbie for this tradition all-pink attending by Fe Noel. She captivated a blush bedazzled flamingo handbag to bout with her blush dress.
"With the Met adulatory American designers, I artlessly performed into what America is forth with my heritage. A melting pot," the artist wrote on Instagram. "Jackie’s clothes is the absolute mashup of Allure meets babe abutting door.”