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The Met Gala 2024 was hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute on May 6, 2024. The theme of this year’s gala was ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion’ with the dress code ‘Garden of Dreams’. The event also known as the Costume Institute Gala was co-chaired by celebrities like Zendaya, Bad Bunny, and Chris Hemsworth alongside Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor-in-chief.

The Met Gala is a Vogue fundraising event created by Eleanor Lambert. This year’s event had over 400 guests, celebrities, musicians, designers, models, actors, and other influential figures. Each one tried to make a fashion statement to the dress code. Even the red carpet, no, green carpet was decorated to the theme. But who slayed it the most for us? Find out.

1. Zendaya

Zendaya made two bold fashion statements on the Met Gala’s red carpet. But her first outfit speaks more to the dress statement of the event, ‘Garden of Dreams’. This is her sixth time in the Met Gala event and she co-chairs the event this year

Her first dress screams Mother Nature with a subtle touch of Garden of Eden with her wine-themed makeup. The Challengers’ star bodied this Marson Margiela outfit with grace. Her A-shaped dress seems adorned with a grapes-like design at the strap and the hip side stands out with gold pine-shaped flowers.

Zendaya’s first outfit is made from shimmering blue and teal organza material which she perfectly adorned with a fascinator of the same color. The part of the fascinator close to her neck has on it the representation of a hummingbird. With a closer look at the colors of the dress, the green color represents earth and the blue color represents water. Zendaya killed the dress code with this outfit.

2. Teyana Taylor

Ring-a-ring o’ roses, a pocket full of posies. Teyana Taylor looks good in any outfit for her red carpet look at the Met Gala 2024 has no adjective to qualify it yet. It was breath taking. Her crimson red velvet outfit took the embroidered red roses on it as if it bore it, more like, a bed of roses.

The American songwriter and actress debuted her platinum blonde look with this outfit and matching heels. Her nude makeup glam complements her skin and hair giving her a goddess vibe. With the classy high slit that exposes her gold-strapped heels, we can say Teyana ate this look.

3. Nicki Minaj

While yellow can be too flashy and overbearing sometimes, Nicki Minaj’s dress defiles that possibility. Nicki Minaj appeared at the event in a bright yellow short gown with 4D flowers of different colors sticking out of various corners of the dress. The flowers contrasted with the yellow background color in the nicest way possible.

The American rapper styled the outfit with matching yellow bags and shoes. She maintained a nude makeup look and her hair was adorned with flower-shaped accessories. Her look represents a brightly colored garden of flowers. She is one of the few lots that did justice to a flower-themed look.

4. Jonathan Bailey

The Bridgerton star graced the red carpet in a Loewe suit designed. Jonathan Bailey wore a bright pink flower bow tie to the suit .This made Jonathan’s outfit speak to the dress code. The Jonathan Anderson’s styled suit moved from being simple to a dreamy one with the flower placed at the upper left hand side of his trouser’s pocket of the suit.

5. Gabrielle Union

Gabrielle’s dress is described as a ‘sea-worthy couture’. She walked the Met Gala red carpet alongside her husband, Dwayne Wade in a high neck teal and green ombre embedded dress. Gabrielle Union was giving mermaid vibes in her fish tailed outfit. The designer behind Gabrielle Union’s oufit is the indellible Michael Kors.

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6. Cynthia Erivo

The Wicked star was dressed in Thom Browne black suit dress. But this crop topped suit was designed with sequin material at the bust area, with a closer look at the outfit, one would notice embroidered bugs, spiders and other insects on the dress. Cynthia in an interview teased that it looks like she ‘ has run into a garden and things have fallen on’ her.

Her dress have rose petals designed all over with the drape of her dress overflowing. She accompainied the look with a bright pink coloured hand bag. We cannot help but notice the blush around her eyes giving her statement look.

7. Ayo Edebiri

The Emmy winner wore a floral themed dress to the Met Gala. She graced the red carpet in a A-shaped white flowered backless, strapless dress. Flowers were embroidered into dress at the lower part of the dress down to the hem of the dress. She graced a simple but elegant look also with the brightly coloured blush on her cheeks.

8. Rachael Smith

The American actress decided to go green with the dresscode. Her dress loooks like she is a garden of vegetable which she wore graciously. The black and green flower embroidered dress matches the red carpet’s asthetics and Rachael embodied the green of nature effortlessly.

9. Bad Bunny

Bad Bunny was one of the co-chairs of Met Gala 2024. The actor is known for making fashion statements without overdoing it. He graced the red carpet with a Maison Margiela black suit holding a bouquet of black roses- the black roses just made his outfit a match to the dresscode. Bad Bunny really killed his outfit ‘with a playful little hat, hoofed Tabi shoes, tiny sunglasses’.

The Met Gala 2024 was graced by a lot of stunning designs on the red carpet. Only that, the carpet was green adorned with green flowers. It goes well with the dress code chosen. The dress code, Garden of Dreams is not a new concept . Dior had used it for their advertised campain which featured Anya Taylor- Joy in 2023. It is important that guests stick to the dress code of events they attend.

This is our pick for guests who stuck to the dresscode. There are a lot more we want to bring to your reading but let us close the list here. Check out the rest on Met Gala social media pages and stay fashion trendy because one day you might just receive an invite.