Met Gala theme 2022

Gilded glamour came to life thanks to performers who turned the red carpet into their stage.

See the best dressed celebrities from the 2022 Met Gala red carpet below, and revisit the livestream from the red carpet for all of the looks from fashion’s biggest night. The sheer number of attention-grabbing looks meant that breaking from the norm was the only way to truly stand out. From the moment the Met Gala’s 2022 theme was announced, people have tried to unpack its meaning.

The 2022 Met Gala took place on Monday night in New York and the theme of the event was “gilded glamour.” Did any celebrities get it right on the red carpet ...

I respect the commitment, though, and it does qualify as a “moment,” as we say in fashion. I see it as the 2022 version of “gilded glamour.” Sue me. Instead, she wore the very same dress Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy. I guess this is technically “gilded glamour,” and it is a piece that should be in a museum, but I don’t know, maybe not worth losing 16 pounds for? The Mrs. Astors of the world may not “get” it, but they will soon. A key component of making a grand entrance — a must for this theme, especially since back in the day people were announced upon arrival — is a big coat. “This is an homage to the immigrant workers who kept the Gilded Age going,” he said on the red carpet. If you’re just going to wear gold, you better really wear gold, and these two gave us big embellishments, as the theme called for. As Ahmed explained to Vogue, his outfit was mean to be reminiscent of the laborers of the era. The theme was “gilded glamour,” tied to the opening of the second half of a two-part exhibit at the Costume Institute focusing on American fashion, and the dress code called for white tie. It was a time of “new money” and “old money” brushing shoulders and of excitement around technology and the future. In fact, I saw someone compare her to this portrait of singer Mabel Batten in particular, which has hung at the Met before. The giant bow reminded me of something Carrie Coon’s character would wear on The Gilded Age, which is to say it’s something Mrs. Vanderbilt herself might have worn, and the nod to Lady Liberty was nice.

The event, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, was hosted by Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

Another Twitter user said: “Why do people act shocked when a Met Gala theme is insensitive? Kelsie Marie Pym wrote on Twitter: “Am I the only one who thinks this years Met Gala theme is out of touch? Lively arrived in a bronze and rose Versace gown.

That first gilded age came to a symbolic end with a famously ostentatious party, the Bradley-Martin Ball of 1897, in which many of the attendees, the good and ...

Hillary Clinton, attending the gala for the first time in two decades, wore a burgundy Altuzarra gown with the names of 60 American women who had inspired her embroidered on the hem, including Abigail Adams, Clara Barton, Rosa Parks — and her mother, Dorothy Rodham. They were a reminder that, in fact, sometimes less is actually more, on an evening of rapacious ruffles seemingly dedicated to the opposite idea. Along with the gown she wore matching opera gloves and a tiara like the Statue of Liberty. Next to her, her husband (and co-host), Ryan Reynolds, in classic white tie, faded into oblivion. In the waist-cinching stakes, the tightest statement may have been made by Billie Eilish as a sort of Gothic bordello madam in bustled Gucci satin and green lace — all upcycled from fabrics in the atelier. When “Gilded Glamour,” the dress code of the 2022 Met Gala, was announced, it seemed to be either a recipe for extravagant disaster or irony. Stop dressing as if for a costume ball in which the goal is to out-Instagram one another.

With the guidelines of Gilded Glamour and white tie, the Met Gala 2022 saw both literal interpretation and reinterpretations.

They were lavish, they were lux, and they were giving us life every step of the night. Some avoided the theme at all costs, drawing more inspiration from the 1950s (we're looking at you, Kim Kardashian). This time period "was one of unprecedented prosperity, cultural change, and industrialization, when both skyscrapers and fortunes seemingly arose overnight," the magazine explained.

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To recap, the theme of the annual extravaganza was 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion', with 'Gilded Glamour and White Tie' as the dress code. The brief was ...

We optimistically thought that the 2022 theme would be slightly easier to interpret, these are the most on theme looks of the night.

“This is an homage to the immigrant workers who kept the Gilded Age going,” he told Vogue on the red carpet. The corset, the pearls, the lace train. The custom leather corset and chiffon shawl felt like an apt, gothic, modern, nod to the era in question. In her upcycled Gucci look, Eilish's cinched corseted look – and I can't stress this enough – slayed. Granted, we expected that certain guests would march to the beat of their own drum, looking to other great American epochs for inspiration in line with the Costume Institute's exhibition theme In America: An Anthology of Fashion(looking at you, KKW). I digress, below, are all of the on theme looks from The Met Gala 2022 red carpet. The 2022 Met Gala has passed us by again, and as we marinate on everything we saw, digest the looks, understand the process, we're finally ready to talk about who nailed the theme.

Get by the minute updates from the Met Gala 2022 red carpet and inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2022 exhibition.

Any way you slice it, the Met Gala is an evening to remember, and we’re here to help you do that with our Met Gala red carpet live blog. Vogue has correspondents up and down The Met’s famous front steps and inside the gala, too—no one has a more complete view. They’ll be joined by honorary co-chairs Anna Wintour, Tom Ford, and Instagram’s Adam Mosseri, plus a who’s who of the world’s biggest stars—all of whom have been briefed on the “gilded glamour” dress code.

Celebrities paid tribute to the era of extravagance through gold-adorned ensembles, splashy headdresses and more.

This year’s benefit marked the opening of “ In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the second installment in a two-part Met exhibition. “It’ll be great to see a nod to all the embellishment ... and a celebration of that kind of exaggeration,” fashion historian and curator Kate Strasdin told CNN Style’s Jacqui Palumbo ahead of the gala. They interpreted the theme of “ Gilded Glamour” in oft-divergent ways, lending the event a sense of luxury in keeping with the times that inspired it. One of the gala’s highlights was a dress that hadn’t been wore in public since Marilyn Monroe famously sang “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1962. “Sex and the City” star Parker similarly paid homage to an underappreciated designer: Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, a formerly enslaved woman who became First Lady Mary Lincoln’s dressmaker. In terms of fashion, Gilded Age style was defined by extravagance.