Fashion’s biggest night returned to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday, as stars put their best fashion foot forward for the 2023 Met Gala
The event, known for its star-studded guest list and extravagant outfits, included pearls, starched collars, and black and white to honour the designer.
The invitation-only fundraiser for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted about 400 guests.
Lagerfeld’s cat was also honoured. At least two celebs dressed as Choupette.
For this year’s theme – “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” – attendees were asked to wear clothes “in honour of Karl”.
For decades, Lagerfeld was at the helm of some of the biggest-name fashion houses in the world, including Chanel and Fendi.
The designer, who died in 2019 at the age of 85, most often wore dark sunglasses with his white hair pulled back into a ponytail. He was often pictured alongside Choupette, his famously pampered pet.
Retired tennis star Roger Federer, Grammy-winning songstress Dua Lipa, actress Penélope Cruz and writer, actor and producer Michaela Coel were invited to be this year’s co-chairs, alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
Brittney Griner, the WNBA basketball star who was jailed in Russia, attended on Monday night alongside her wife.
Two stars – Karlie Kloss and Serena Williams – used the night as an opportunity to announce their pregnancies.
Last year, the Metropolitan Museum’s Great Hall was festooned with 275,000 pink roses. But the decorations are nothing compared to the outfits that celebrities flaunt on their way into the event.
Much of the public’s gaze is on the red carpet and the lavish outfits of those in attendance – which last year included Kim Kardashian wearing a $4.8m (£3.84m) rhinestone-studded dress once worn by Marilyn Monroe.
This year, Kardashian wore a Schiaparelli design dripping in pearls, which was designed after a visit last week to the Karl Lagerfeld office in Paris, where she said she was getting “a little inspiration for the Met”.
“I just wanted to feel glamorous,” she told Vogue on the red carpet. “I wanted pearls – what is more Karl”.
Her sisters Kylie and Kendall were also in attendance.
Individual tickets for the event this year are priced at $50,000, with tables beginning at $300,000.
Actresses Priyanka Chopra and Elle Fanning, Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham and singer Rita Ora and her husband Taika Waititi also attended.
Rapper Lil Nas X arrived looking like some sort of mythical creature, clad in pearls and painted silver.
Embattled actor Jonathan Majors had been slated to attend as a guest of Valentino, but “mutually agreed” with the fashion house not to attend on the heels of assault charges stemming from a March incident.
Other stars chose to delve into the designer’s archives, pulling out vintage looks from his tenure at the likes of Fendi and Chanel. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen, for example, wore an angel-inspired white feathered gown from Chanel’s haute couture spring/summer 2007 collection.
Despite rumours swirling ahead of the event, several members of the Kardashian family were in attendance at this year’s gala.
Kim Kardashian’swho last year stole the show in Marylin Monroe’s famous dress,wore a custom look by Schiaparelli, with heavy pearl beading, in a nod to Lagerfeld’s love of pearls.
Scroll through the gallery above to see all the looks from this year’s Met Gala
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