This yr has been an thrilling one for Ariana Grande: Her new album, Everlasting Sunshine, was launched in March, and the celebrity will star as Glinda within the movie adaptation of Depraved come November. Final evening, then, it was solely pure that Grande continued her 2024 takeover—by hitting the Met Gala crimson carpet in superb type for the primary time since 2018. She was positive to honor the “Sleeping Beauties” theme. “I felt so related to this theme; it’s really so aligned with every thing I really like aesthetically, and so inspiring to me,” says Grande, who wore a customized Loewe search for the affair. “As quickly as I heard this was the theme, I couldn’t wait to get began. I used to be additionally so inexplicably excited to work with one in all my favourite designers, Loewe’s Jonathan Anderson; I really like the best way he makes use of and performs with unusual supplies, applied sciences, and shapes to inform tales and to push the envelope.”

On the well-known Met steps, Grande wore Loewe’s bustier gown in mother-of-pearl, full with a hand-pleated, multilayered skirt in silk chiffon. Anderson and his atelier appeared to “sensorial craft strategies”—drawing upon the fantastic thing about nature to encourage craftsmanship and textile choice. (Grande’s skirt was designed to imitate the iridescence of the nacre mineral.) “The thought for my outfit was to create an ethereal look, impressed by nature and by the best way that mother-of-pearl displays mild,” says Grande. “Pearl is my birthstone, so it’s very significant to me for that motive—in addition to the delicate methods wherein I really feel prefer it nods to Glinda’s bubble and to Depraved with its delicate opalescent winks of pink and inexperienced.”