Meet UsAt the Met! Stars flocked to the 2022 Met Gala to celebrate the biggest night in fashion — and their red carpet looks did not disappoint.
The theme for the Monday, May 2, event piggybacked off of the 2021 “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” exhibition, which was inspired by the concept of American identity. Prabal Gurung posed the question “Who gets to be American?” at his tenth-anniversary fashion show in September 2019.
“American designers are at the forefront of conversations around diversity, inclusivity, sustainability, gender fluidity and body positivity,” Met curator Andrew BoltonSubmitted VogueLast year. “The framework of the show enables us to focus on the younger designers who are engaging thoughtfully and deeply with those ideas.”
For the 2022 gala, celebs and stylists will follow the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” a second celebration of American fashion history. Blake LivelyShe and her husband. Ryan Reynolds, join Lin-Manuel MirandaAnd Regina King as Monday’s cohosts. Tom FordHead of Instagram Adam Mosseri, Vogue‘s Anna WintourThey were made honorary cochairs.
Ford, 60 years old, raised eyebrows by expressing some unsubtle disapproval at the Met Gala. “It’s turned into a costume party,” the designer claimed in an excerpt of Anna: The BiographyPublished by TIME magazine April 25, 2009. “That used to just be very chic people wearing very beautiful clothes going to an exhibition about the 18th century. You didn’t have to look like the 18th century, you didn’t have to dress like a hamburger, you didn’t have to arrive in a van where you were standing up because you couldn’t sit down because you wore a chandelier.”
The Texas native didn’t mention Katy PerryName aside, the 37-year old singer dressed as a hamburger and a chandelier for 2019’s camp-themed event.
Perry isn’t the only celeb who’s shown up in a shocking ensemble. Kim Kardashian hit the 2021 Met Gala in an all-black Balenciaga look that completely covered her body from head to toe — including her face.
“I fought against it. I was like, ‘I don’t know how I could wear the mask.’ Why would I want to cover my face?” the reality star, 41, recalled to Vogueearlier this year. “But Demna [Gvasalia]The [Balenciaga] team were like, ‘This is a costume gala. This is not a Vanity Fair party in which everyone looks gorgeous. There’s a theme and you have to wear the mask. This is the look.’”
Keep scrolling to see all of the stunning gowns, mini-dresses and more from the Gala Red Carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute in 2022!
