The Weirdest Met Gala Outfits Through the Years

Style‘s greatest evening is all the time one to recollect.

Celebrities descend upon The Met steps each first Monday in Could to carry their trend A-game for a unique theme every year. Generally, in an effort to be memorable, stars will go above and past for his or her outfits, at occasions ensuing within the 12 months’s most outrageous seems.

This 12 months, the Met Gala theme is Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Style, with the costume code studying “The Backyard of Time,” leaving it as much as interpretation for the celebrities attending — and their stylists. The title refers to among the treasured clothes from the gathering on the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, a few of that are too fragile to hold upright out of concern they might disintegrate. So, they’ll lie in glass instances, like Sleeping Magnificence did.

“When a dressing up comes into the Met assortment it adjustments irrevocably,” mentioned Michael Bolton, the Costume Institute’s curator. “It could possibly’t be worn, clearly, you don’t see it in motion, you possibly can’t scent it, can’t hear it, can’t contact it.” He added that the thought was to “reawaken the sensorial facet” of the clothes.

Vogue‘s Anna Wintour will steer the occasion, alongside Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Unhealthy Bunny and Chris Hemsworth, who will function her Met Gala co-chairs.

The Sleeping Beauties exhibit will open Could 10 at The Met and run by means of Sept. 2. Bolton defined he was in search of a method to breathe life into a set of 33,000 items, lots of which haven’t been seen. For this 12 months’s exhibit, he’s chosen about 250 designs, spanning 4 centuries. His objective is to carry clothes to museum-goers by way of a number of senses, past simply sight, together with scent and sound.

In honor of this 12 months’s particular evening, THR is looking at among the weirdest Met Gala outfits all through the years — from Kim Kardashian’s head-to-toe black Balenciaga look to Jared Leto carrying round his personal head.

Jared Leto, 2023

Jared Leto by no means fails to make a splash on the Met Gala every year he goes. In 2023, the Morbius star took the theme of “In honor of Karl” Lagerfeld to the following degree when he dressed up because the late dressmaker’s beloved pet cat Choupette.

Doja Cat, 2023

Jared Leto wasn’t the one one to take a feline strategy to the theme. Doja Cat additionally dressed up as Choupette, with cat prosthetics, cat claws (nails) and a diamond headpiece with cat ears for her first Met Gala. “That is my first Met,” she mentioned in the course of the Vogue livestream. “It’s actually not dangerous. Usually it’s kinda dangerous. I really feel good, I really feel relaxed right here. I don’t know — possibly it’s the beige. I really feel actually calm, it’s very good.”

Lil Nas X, 2023

Lil Nas X is one other superstar who takes their Met Gala appearances to the following degree. This 12 months, the rapper dressed up down in a metallic Dior Males thong and silver physique paint, encrusted with pearls and crystals. Nonetheless, he did embody a minor tribute to Lagerfeld’s cat, with silver whiskers.

Kim Kardashian, 2021

Kim Kardashian introduced temporary anonymity to the 2021 Met Gala when she walked the carpet at trend’s greatest evening in a black Balenciaga high fashion robe with an identical practice and masks that stored viewers guessing who was carrying the ensemble. In February 2022, Kardashian advised Vogue she “fought in opposition to” the look however was finally satisfied by the model’s artistic director and group.

Solange, 2015

For the Met’s China: Via the Trying Glass exhibit, Solange wore a futuristic Giles ensemble, paying homage to a Chinese language paper fan. It featured a galactic print that she paired with black pumps and a smooth magnificence look.

Katy Perry, 2015

Katy Perry is one other individual to look at on the gala carpet every year, along with her usually out-there ensembles being ones to recollect. In 2017, Perry served as a co-chair of the occasion and wore a purple, embroidered wool coat over a purple tulle and chiffon costume with satin ribbon elaborations and a silk veil.

Marc Jacobs, 2012

Marc Jacobs dressed down for the 2012 Met Gala, Schiaparelli and Prada: Unattainable Dialogs, with a Commes des Garçons black lace tunic over white boxers The designer defined on the time that he “didn’t wish to put on a tuxedo and be boring,” including, “I believe Miuccia Prada is such a celebration of the unconventional, and so it felt like, applicable, in some way.”