Category: Fashion
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Elle Fanning | The Sun Eater

Elle Fanning looked like a glass sculpture come to life for the 2024 Met Gala, the custom translucent gown by Balmain made Fanning look frozen in time. A recurring theme in Christopher Ruocchio’s Sun Eater saga, the memoir-style story follows antihero Hadrian Marlowe on a journey through space and time.
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Tyla | Not Quite Dead Yet

For her first Met Gala, Tyla partnered with Balmain to create a stunning interpretation of the “Sands of Time.” The atelier’s inspiration came from expressing the ephemerality of life. Something they have in common with Holly Jackson’s new novel, Not Quite Dead Yet.
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Karlie Kloss | The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Karlie Kloss and Swarovski designed a stunning gown for the 2024 Met Gala, which represented the fragility of nature through fashion. Lucy Gray from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is intimately familiar with the fragility of life and nature – but she also knows how important a good dress…
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Wisdom Kaye | Red Rising

Wisdom Kaye is the best-dressed on TikTok and the red carpet. While he’s only attended the Met Gala in 2024, he stole the spotlight from seasoned carpetgoers in a blood red suit. That could have been formalwear for one of the Reds in the saga Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
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Alia Bhatt | Exit West

Award-winning actress Alia Bhatt wore a custom sari by Sabyasachi Mukherjee. The design was meant to honor the traditional craftsmanship and history of the sari. She looked whimsical, like a character from J. G. Ballard’s story, “The Garden of Time”—the story which inspired this year’s Gala theme.
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Lana Del Rey | A Discovery of Witches

This year, Lana Del Rey attended the Met Gala in a stunning nature-inspired Alexander McQueen gown fit for a witch. A witch like Diana Bishop with the power to control nature. She would resemble a goddess of nature in the McQueen gown, like her patron, the goddess of the hunt.