There seems to be one trend emerging from last night’s Met Gala’s infamous cream carpet, and red carpet darlings were wearing, well, very little.
There was also Dua Lipa, who wore sultry black Marc Jacobs. His FKA twigs by Stella McCartney encrusted with lab-grown diamonds. Greta Lee in a sculptural lace Loewe dress. Don’t get me wrong, forget about the architecture created by other people’s ensembles. The peek-a-boo, skin-revealing “naked outfit” trend that’s been making a comeback in recent years isn’t going anywhere.
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Even the night’s co-host, Jennifer Lopez, got in on the last-minute trend with a custom Schiaparelli haute couture dress that left little to the imagination (and took more than 800 hours to decorate). ). More modest darlings of the red carpet pushed the trend even further with shiny translucent dresses courtesy of Balmain.
Emily Ratajkowski, one of the biggest proponents of the “naked dressing” trend in recent years, chose a see-through archive dress by Versace and admitted in a red carpet interview that the dress felt “really natural” to her. He even admitted that. “It’s really comfortable,” she added.
This year’s Met Gala theme, “The Garden of Time,” seems to have inspired designers to look to the Garden of Eden, and if not Adam’s then certainly Eve’s naked glory was a strong influence. It looked like he was giving.
That this year’s theme is reminiscent of yesteryear was confirmed courtesy of Rita Ora. She wears nothing except a beaded fringe on her chest, and in her interview she admitted that it makes her “older than anyone on the planet.”Beads adorning Ola’s body date back to 2 BC
Of course, this isn’t the first time bold dresses have been spotted on the red carpet this year. This year’s Vanity Fair 2024 Oscars afterparty was dominated by blink-and-you’ll-miss-it dresses, with Euphoria star Hunter Schaefer, Kendall Jenner and Florence Pugh also embracing the trend.
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