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Katy Perry rode up to the event in a vintage roadster, wearing huge Versace wings, as if she were doing a one-woman Off Broadway “Angels in America.” Cardi B, now well into her pregnancy, looked both sacred and profane in an elaborate Elizabethan headdress and a gown with a thigh-high slit. Madonna, who performed at the party and might be considered the spiritual center of the gala, for her decades of mixing ecclesiastical and pop iconography, showed up in Gothic Gaultier. (I must mention here that I seem to have conjured this headpiece from thin air in my own fantasy Met Ball betting pool.) And Jared Leto, of course, cast himself as an eccentric Jesus, in a floor-length liturgical stole and a golden crown of thorns-he was part of the “Gucci gang” on the carpet, which also included Lana Del Rey, wearing a halo of blue parrot feathers and the stabbed heart of the Virgen Dolorosa. Sarah Jessica Parker, always the kooky reverend mother of this party, wore a Dolce & Gabbana spectacle of gold brocade and crimson hearts with a six-foot train, complete with a tall fascinator in the shape of a gazebo that featured the entire Nativity scene. There was Greta Gerwig, in a black-and-white gown by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s label the Row, looking like Maria von Trapp before she fled the convent. There was Nicki Minaj, wearing a miles-long Oscar de la Renta gown in cardinal red. (On Twitter, she was immediately crowned a nouveau papess, a leader whose benedictions come in the form of ten-minute makeup tutorials.) Subsequent guests arrived to fill out her makeshift Vatican City. She arrived early in the evening and appointed herself the head of the couture congregation, wearing an ornate, beaded white Margiela corset dress with a matching jacket, clutch, and mitre-also known as the hat that the Pope wears.

Rihanna, one of the co-chairs of the gala, is the rare star who has never committed a sartorial misstep at the event (or perhaps in her whole life).

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And so many celebrities felt free to experiment, knowing that the only heresy they’d be convicted of would be crimes against fashion.Īlessandro Michele, the Gucci designer, pictured left, with Lana Del Rey and Jared Leto, whom he dressed for the evening. Cardinal Timothy Dolan agreed not only to sanction the gala but to attend it the entire event had the feel of the officially anointed. Although some true believers may have expressed displeasure on social media about this year’s conflation of Church and high fashion, the Catholic Church itself is a partner in the Met’s exhibition, lending more than forty papal vestments from the Vatican (a first for the notoriously secretive archive). Dressing to this year’s theme-officially the Eucharist, but better summed up by the title of the Costume Institute’s new exhibit, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”-was a far less complex assignment than that of the 2017 event, which celebrated the (often challenging, conceptual) work of Comme des Garçons’ visionary designer Rei Kawakubo and it was less thorny to navigate than the theme two years before that, which explored Western designers’ fascination with China and led to more than one moment of uncomfortable cultural appropriation on the red carpet. It is no surprise that Monday night’s Met Gala was one of the most satisfying in years. Rihanna wearing an ornate, beaded white Margiela corset dress with a matching jacket, clutch, and mitre.