Michelle Williams surprised me! I was not expecting something so weird and offbeat. Michelle wore Chanel – this post is for the Chanel ladies – and she was one of the few women wearing a short dress. Now, this is technically a mullet dress because there’s a long tulle train attached in the back. Michelle also has pink hair now. Is she pulling it off? I don’t know. Something cool is that Michelle wore a reproduction of the fringe necklace designed by Coco Chanel in 1932. Michelle wore the necklace as Coco originally intended – as a headpiece/tiara.
Sofia Coppola in Chanel – incredibly boring. It’s like the gala version of normcore.
Riley Keough in Chanel – just one big MEH. I hate to say this, but Riley could really rock the current ‘70s-inspired stuff Miley Cyrus has been wearing lately.
I saw Penelope Cruz’s interview on the Met Gala red carpet and you could just tell the thought and care put into her Chanel look and how she was honoring the history of the atelier. So it’s hard for me to really verbalize how f–king boring this is and how we’ve seen Penelope in extremely similar versions of this dress for many years.
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Penelope Cruz Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: Michael Stewart/INSTARimages.com
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Penelope Cruz Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: Michael Stewart/INSTARimages.com
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Sofia Coppola Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: Michael Stewart/INSTARimages.com
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Penelope Cruz Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: DNphotography/Abaca Press/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Riley Keough Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: Michael Stewart/INSTARimages.com
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Michelle Williams Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: Michael Stewart/INSTARimages.com
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- Celebrities attend the 2024 Met Gala Celebrating ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City Featuring: Michelle Williams Where: New York, United States When: 06 May 2024 Credit: Michael Stewart/INSTARimages.com
I think Michelle looks amazing! (I just wish she’d fix her posture, pull her shoulders back).
Agree that Michelle looks amazing (love the headpiece) but could improve her posture. The rest of these dresses are blah to bad.
I thought she looked great and I love the pink hair, but yes, she looked painfully uncomfortable walking the carpet! It made me wonder if she was high or something. Just a very odd way to sell that dress. It looked like she wasn’t feeling it at all.
Penelope, on the other hand, looked like she felt beautiful!
I love Michelle’s look! Definitely Michelle’s look over Penelope’s they’re polar opposites. One is light and airy and the other is dark and heavy.
I don’t like Michelle’s. (Also, she looks very frail in the face? I don’t follow her; perhaps she always look like this.) Riley’s is the best. Sofia’s is dreadful. The pose doesn’t help – the girly turned in feet. Yuck. Some may say, the gown is the thing, not the pose, but I think how someone stands is as interesting as the dress. ALl of the dresses are pretty blah.
All of these fall flat. Where is the theme??!
Sofia’s outfit is terrible but since her mother just died a few weeks ago she gets a pass. Can’t imagine this event really mattered to her. Michelle looks interesting the rest are boring.
Love your Met Gala coverage and pics every year, thank you so much. I was lucky to be able to watch some of the red carpet last night online but I always check Celebitchy the next day for the best pics and fashion breakdowns. (Thank you bc I know some pics cost you money). It’s so hard for me to choose a favorite, I see tons of hours of hard work and dedication with each gorgeous gown design, hair style, nails 💅 were so ON POINT I was like ‘SLAY!” to their digits and cool ass lewks. To me, everyBODY was SERVING. 🔥 👗 💗
Penelope looks like goth Scarlett O’Hara
I thought the same thing – Scarlett O’Hara as a widow!
Definitelyyyyyy giving Reconstruction-era vampira. Penelope is so gorgeous, she deserved better.
I am partial to the ones that at least try to dress on theme (“The Garden of Time”), especially since it’s a major haute couture event and, literally, a fundraiser for the *Costume Institute.* The theatricality (which can be executed well both subtly AND outrageously, no one has to go big unless they want to) is quite literally the point. I feel this way more than ever since learning VOGUE puts out an extensive brief with notes about the theme, background, and reference imagery available to both attendees and their stylists, and that Wintour and her team make themselves available for consultation re: interpreting the theme, if needed.
Something like Sophia Coppola’s dress (or Chris Hemsworth’s suit), especially, prioritizes the designer’s self-promotion and celebrity preferences above all else, ignoring the theme and the nature and purpose of the event, to celebrate fashion as costume and messenger, as guided by an annual theme.
This was also really true with *co-chair* (!) Chris Hemsworth’s boring open collared Tom Ford suit that looked…like every other open collared Tom Ford suit, but in cream and gold. If I can’t even guess at the theme or the event where it’s being worn, but can tell you it’s Tom Ford, just by looking at it, it’s designed to celebrate Tom Ford, not fashion, not costumes, not the Met Costume Institute…just Tom Ford.
Of course, as I mentioned, it can be done subtly and beautifully so. Not everything needs to be ostentatious, but it’s nice when people at least try.
I thought Sofia Coppola’s dress was intended to address the theme of the actual Met exhibit of vintage fashion “sleeping beauties.” I assumed it was very old Chanel. Or meant to look like it
Michelle Williams and Penelope Cruz for the win. Sofia Coppola’s look was matronly and hideous. With such a great theme why would you choose depressed French grandma for your look.
Chris Hemsworth, your one of the chair persons and you show up dressed like a guy going to his 6th grade graduation. Most of the men were still boring, don’t just show up in a tux. Seriously?
I love both Michelle and Penelope’s dresses. Michelle seems like she was having more fun with the theme, and Penelope’s is more her typical red carpet dress, but with a lot more drama and the lace is gorgeous. I think its a win for both of them.
I’m sorry but these were easily two of the worst looks from the night. Love both actresses, but this was not it. Not creative with the interpretation of the theme, aesthetically awful. Williams looks like a Coachella bride! She deserved so much better. No no no.
Michelle Williams looked fantastic. She reminded me of a contemporary Pierrot, but with the focal point shifted from a bright lip to pink candyfloss hair. She loves those more mod-inspired mini lengths, and I have to say that I adore a mullet dress.
Michelle looks cute (she always tends to lean little girl). Her divorce to Phil Elverum and 2 new kids with Thomas Kail look good on her.
Sophia C. and Penelope C. seem to be stuck in a rut.