Met Gala 2022 Red Carpet Fashion: See the Stars’ Style
03.05.2022 - 01:47
/ usmagazine.com
Meet Us at the Met! Stars flocked to the 2022 Met Gala to celebrate the biggest night in fashion — and their red carpet looks did not disappoint.
The theme for the Monday, May 2, event piggybacked off of the 2021 “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” exhibition, which was inspired by the concept of American identity. Prabal Gurung posed the question “Who gets to be American?” at his tenth-anniversary fashion show in September 2019.
“American designers are at the forefront of conversations around diversity, inclusivity, sustainability, gender fluidity and body positivity,” Met curator Andrew Bolton told Vogue last year. “The framework of the show enables us to focus on the younger designers who are engaging thoughtfully and deeply with those ideas.”
For the 2022 gala, celebs and stylists will follow the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” a second celebration of American fashion history. Blake Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, join Lin-Manuel Miranda and Regina King as Monday’s cohosts. Tom Ford, head of Instagram Adam Mosseri, and Vogue‘s Anna Wintour were named honorary cochairs.
Ford, 60, raised eyebrows before the red carpet by throwing some not-so-subtle shade at the Met Gala. “It’s turned into a costume party,” the designer claimed in an excerpt of Anna: The Biography published by TIME magazine on April 25. “That used to just be very chic people wearing very beautiful clothes going to an exhibition about the 18th century. You didn’t have to look like the 18th century, you didn’t have to dress like a hamburger, you didn’t have to arrive in a van where you were standing up because you couldn’t sit down because you wore a chandelier.”
The Texas native didn’t mention Katy Perry by name, but the 37-year-old singer