THE 2015 MET GALA RED CARPET

The ladies were the big talking point at the Met Gala 2015. PICTURE: Daily Mail

LAST NIGHT more than 500 Oscar-winning actresses and actors, Wall Street titans, Silicon Valley wunderkinds, fashion designers and Hollywood players walked the 13o-metre red carpet leading into the Metropolitan Museum of Art for biggest fashion party of the year on the New York social calendar.

The spring 2015 Costume Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicated to Chinese fashion, and that’s the theme for this year’s gala. The exhibit is called ”China: Through the Looking Glass,” and it showcases Chinese art and rare artifacts as well as dresses interpreting Chinese designs from Western designers like John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Jean Paul Gaultier, and Tom Ford.

This year Silas Chou – was the host of the over R300 000 -a-ticket affair, while Jennifer Lawrence, Gong Li, Marissa Mayer, Wendi Murdoch and Anna Wintour served as co-chairs. Make no mistake though, this was also dubbed Anna Wintour’s party.

Most talked about was the revealing garments of mothers Beyonce Knowles Carter, Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian West – who all opted for the rather revealing frocks, leaving youngsters fully clad. Also the outrageously styled garment that Rihanna wore, the horrendous Sarah Jessica Parker ensemble and the youngsters who tried but really lost to their elders.

Beyonce Knowles Carter may be King/ Queen in music but her dress sense does leave a princess price tag to it… The ponytail was a definite no ways for us, while the dress could have been fabulous but it was ruined by that ponytail. PICTURE: Beyonce/ Instagram

Flawless singer Beyonce, opted for a completely sheer Givenchy tight-fitting gown which meant the star had nothing but some strategically placed colourful jewels protecting her modesty. She paired the dress with wore tan sandals and pulled her fiercest poses on the red carpet beside husband Jay Z, with her blonde hair styled in a high ponytail to best show off her dazzling ensemble.

Kim Kardashian West looked gorgeous in this Cavalli number, pity she was already being accused of copying Beyonce’s 2012 Met gala garment. PICTURE: WireImage

Kim Kardashian West opted for a Roberto Cavalli creation which was a nude bodysuit covered in sparkling silver crystals, and featured a long white feather train that hugged every inch of her famous figure. The 34-year-old reality star, who was attending the gala for the third time, was joined by her rapper husband Kanye West – who opted for Balmain garment.

JLo at the Met Gala 2015

JLo on the other hand, opted for a skintight Versace gown that had sheer cutouts.

Rihanna caused jaws to drop when she arrived in a rich yellow robe featuring heavy embroidery, a fur trim and the longest train of any of the guests.  The haute couture gown was designed by Chinese designer Guo Pei, that had  a train so large that it required four people to carry it. The songstress still managed to leave plenty of skin on show with the gown starting at her cleavage and featuring a split up the front, and accessorised with a gold headdress.  And once Rihanna had posed at the entrance, she needed three people to hold her train as she made her way up the stairs in her sky high glittering sandals.

“I’m so in love with this dress, but the train is insane!” she told VF.com on the red carpet.

Actress Sarah Jessica Parker always manages to shock at the annual event, and this year was certainly no exception.In an nod to the theme, the actress showed up in an elaborate flame-like red and white headdress by Philip Treacy, stopping all the other guests in their tracks. She arrived alongside Andy Cohen, also wore a black satin one-shouldered gown featuring embroidery and embellished with flowers, which was designed in collaboration with H&M.

Meanwhile, Lady Gaga unsurprisingly relished the chance to wear a wacky outfit, in the form of a black and white netted custom r design, with a low-cut neckline. The 29-year-old singer enhanced her ensemble with a black headpiece and matching sparkly platform boots, and drew on dark pointed eyebrows.

Guests at the gala took risks in very different ways. Anne Hathaway looked as though she was referencing the fact that it was Star Wars Day in a gold lame creation by Ralph Lauren with a hood. Also opting for gold were actresses Kate Hudson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Jessica Chastain paid homage to old Hollywood glamour.

Reality starlet and model Kendall Jenner showcased plenty of sideboob in her green Calvin Klein creation, while Miley Cyrus appeared to have thought that the theme was punk once again, as she arrived with freshly dyed blue hair in a studded Alexander Wang gown. Singer and actress Selena Gomez also opted for a silk white Vera Wang dress. – copy from Daily Mail / New York Times/ The Muse etc

What others wore at the Met Gala 2015: 

Allison Williams lives in the princess silhouette, no? This is prettier and more interesting than many of her red carpet jams, although the bodice and brooch transport her back to conservative-land, where she seems most comfortable. On the opposite crimson spectrum is Zendaya, who is a young fashion G as ever—that skirt!—and could be a fashion oracle to all of us with those sun signs and the casual, cool arm on designer Fausto Puglisi. Then there is Taraji P. Henson—simple, elegant, cool, not too busy, a pair of earrings, she’s not sweating this thing. Carey Mulligan appreciates understated in her own way, too, with a sparkly collar and a teeny-tiny train. – Caption by The Muse

Katie Holmes! Katie Holmes. This is the color of my favorite fall nail polish, which is called Dive Bar. Lily Collins is in good contrast—the florals on her skirt are lovely—but it’s just not computing. Nor Mary Kate Olsen nor Ashley Kate Olsen, whose fashion lines are consistently stunning if not pacemaker-inducingly unaffordable, but who know how to dress like businesspeople who are doing that. Whatever, one of my favorite things of this whole smokeshow/shitshow was the dress that Solange wore, by Gilles Deacon, which was an adventurous, artistically interesting, possibly-uncomfortable round pleated experience of an unknown galaxy, and or the chart-topping rave that I’ve been searching for since approximately 1998. I want to live in that dress/rave! – Caption by The Muse

Emily Blunt! I don’t know, embroidery is cool but Fan Bingbing essentially stunted on everyone at this gala, minus Rihanna (goddamn!), with this gorgeous silk cape, covering a stunning gold gown that makes Anne Hathaway’s quasi-stunner (what’s with the hood?) seem like weekend material. There’s also Jennifer Lawrence, in Dior. It’s pretty, but hopefully that’s a break-away skirt so she can dance later. – Caption by The Muse

Fei Fei Sun basically found the most perfectly fitting, bronze patina, easy-wearing gown she could find? I hope she is wearing comfortable shoes beneath. Grimes always has her own steez—Chanel, usually—but the main thing about this ensemble is that I wonder where she will set her box purse once she sits at a table. Will she hide it beneath the table, or carry it around to complete the ensemble and then stash it underneath a pile of coats onstage while she watches the band? Why, though. Naomi Campbell and Lee Daniels have nothing to babysit, because that is how one must roll in Burberry; handmade, hand-feathered, please do not snag this shit. Selena Gomez, in Vera Wang, is certainly not trying to hold anything for anyone. All-white train, all-white flower crown, do not disturb. – Caption by The Muse

Whatever you think about model Constance Jablonski’s look, you have got to give it up for her dedication to comfort, and the pool party she is no doubt attending later. Kerry Washington is not going to the same place, but she is definitely as dedicated to her princesshood as I am—the Prada pink and green is so perfect on the first 80-degree day in New York in 2015, and I want her to host a Spring Parade. Alternately, Lorde and Francisco Costa are clinging to professional and sleek midnight hues year-round—it is elegant, but they haven’t quite found the balance of Lou Doillon, who is full red carpet, ‘90s gothic, beachside dance audition, in a way that has been heretofore unseen. – Caption by The Muse

Jay-Z and Lady Beyoncé, your grace, looking like the ambassadors between House Lannister and House Targaryen. Bey is particularly special because she can travel to Dorne without sweating, but also: golden herself, mother of dragons. Chloë Grace Moretz, in Coach, is a lovely youth so why is she going to work at Liz Claiborne’s team of lawyers ca. 1998. It gets better! Meanwhile there is Kristen Wiig, with designer Prabal Gurung, in a swathe of buttercream to offset the light marsala of Rose Byrne’s lace number. P.S., Bobby Cannavale doesn’t seem so Boardwalk Empire-style murderous on the red carpet, I dunno. -Caption by The Muse

Lady Gaga’s eyebrows need to fall back. The lattice pattern on her gown—kimono-and-hanfu-esque, what it is—are an echo of that of Josephine de la Baume’s mock turtleneck look. Shout to Mark Ronson’s green socks and driving loafters. Miley Cyrus and Zoë Kravitz decided to show up in contrasting gunmetal, twinsies to the end. (Actually: had no real clue they were friends.) – Caption by The Muse

Miranda Kerr is planning for the afters. So are Tory Burch and Melanie Laurent, except their afters are in a Paris garden in 1993, at which point they will wait for Miranda until they’ve received enough unanswered texts that it’s time to go home. Reese Witherspoon went Reese-buck with this square neckline (Reese crazy!) and Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee are into her steez, but ready for the fun part (Miranda’s afters). – Caption by The Muse

Jeremy Scott and Katy Perry wear Scott’s newest designs for Moschino, fall 2015. They are fucking awful, derivative, obvious and look like two black vans that got stuck in a parking garage overnight, to boot. Kendall Jenner is in Calvin Klein, whose minimalism is often delectable, but here is lacking in adventure. It’s a good shade on her. It’s fine.
Robert Pattinson is wearing coattails, but moreso I love FKA Twigs’s gown from Christopher Kane’s Fall 2015 line. You can Google it and discover that yes it is a dick on her dress—shocking!—but more importantly it looks like she has four legs. Sarah Jessica Parker is doing too much—a vague gesture to flames and maybe Chinese New Year and, possibly, Cinco de Mayo, which I do not celebrate. I wish she’d brought along her haberdasher for explanation—Philip Treacy— instead of Andy Cohen, but he’s cool and wearing a tux. – Caption by The Muse

Singer Alicia Keys and Maggie Gyllenhaal both went for it on neutrality, but with a twist; Keys’ jacket is basically trying to sell Gyllenhaal’s belt a timeshare in Bermuda, which would be cute if that belt didn’t already live there. Stella McCartney has been the patron saint of this year’s pantsuits. With supermodel Cara Delevingne, she has matched her inky eye make-up with her creations, gone ham on flash tattoos, and probably had the best time whilst doing so. With Maggie Q, a pantsuit aficionado with her fiance Dylan McDermott, they’re all sleek and prioritizing comfort which, same. – Caption By: The Muse