Doja Cat, Rita Ora, Emily Ratajkowski, Dua Lipa and an army of other stars went nearly naked at the 2024 Met Gala — seemingly ignoring the night’s “Garden of Time” theme, as laid out by Vogue EIC Anna Wintour.
Rapper/singer Doja literally had her diaphanous white Vetements dress doused with hair gel and water which exposed her breasts and butt. She shocked fans by appearing as if she just stepped out of the shower with the dress clinging to her body.
Ratajkowski’s shimmering Versace crochet number left very little to the imagination and revealed that she was wearing no underwear.
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Dua Lipa’s gothic-style offering certainly flashed the flesh and even the Gala’s co-chair for this year, Jennifer Lopez hopped on the trend with her see-through, body clinging gold dress.
Ora attempted to cover her private parts with her hands on the red carpet as the strategically placed beads on her nude see-through bodysuit.
While FKA Twigs went almost completely naked in a see-through beaded dress with a white rope coat by Georgia Pendlebury.
The conveyor belt of scantily-clad stars suggests that they either ignored or misunderstood Wintour’s annual dress code objective.
For the first time ever, Wintour apologized for the confusion ahead of the event caused by the accompany Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibit, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”. She admitted that the theme was too broad and subject to too much interpretation. She then issued a clarification that the dress code was Garden of Time, but it may have been too late.
She said: “I fear that we’ve unleashed a lot of confusion out there for which I deeply apologize, but I imagine we’ll see a lot of flowers.” However, flowers would turn out to be the least of Wintour’s fears.
“The exhibition broke my cardinal rule,” Wintour, 74, continued on in the chat with Today’s Jenna Bush Hager on Monday, May 6. “When we came up with the title ‘Sleeping Beauties,’ it’s wonderful and poetic and romantic, but actually, it could be many, many things.”
It wasn’t Wintour’s first backtrack regarding this year’s theme. She initially wanted to make the event a tribute to the life and work of controversial fashion designer John Galliano.
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After a documentary High and Low detailed Gallino’s history – including racist comments – and his decades long fight for forgiveness the museum put the retrospective on an indefinite hold.
Elsewhere in Wintour’s interview, she also addressed the long-standing rumor that she had banned onions, chives, and garlic from the gala’s dinner menu.
“Well, those are three things I’m not particularly fond of, and so yes, that’s true.” She also said of the cellphone ban: “It’s often wonderful to hear after dinner, people say, ‘Oh, we had the most wonderful conversations,’ and so that’s the idea, that life can exist without a picture on your cell phone.”
