10 Most CONTROVERSIAL Met Gala Moments
Janelle Monáe's Met Gala look had arsenic galore layers arsenic a solid onion.
The vocalist enactment connected a amusement astatine the 2023 Met Gala by changing retired of a Thom Browne ensemble—which featured a black-and-white patchwork overgarment worn implicit a elephantine hoop skirt—while connected the reddish carpet May 1 successful New York City.
Janelle, 37, gradually began taking disconnected pieces of covering until determination was astir thing left, wearing lone a achromatic bra apical and bottoms with pearl fringe and a pannier petticoat layered implicit the lingerie. (See each celebrity at the 2023 Met Gala here.)
"Whether it's successful fashion, to archer a communicative done my armor—there's a communicative there," Janelle told Variety successful 2020, explaining that her onstage costumes oregon "uniforms" began as an homage to the moving class.
Janelle, who uses they/them and she/her pronouns, recalled developing their sense of benignant portion attending a performing arts schoolhouse successful New York and surviving successful a boarding location successful Atlanta years back.
"I was a engaged arts student, expressing myself done art, and I started to truly usage manner arsenic a mode to explicit that," the Glass Onion prima shared. "I did not person clip to find a caller costume each azygous show... So it was like, what is my uniform, what is my outfit going to be? What is thing that I ever consciousness comfy in? It's been achromatic and white. It's been the androgynous look that matched my energy."
And Janelle channeled that colour palette erstwhile again astatine the 2023 Met Gala, which is hosted by Vogue exertion Anna Wintour, on with Grammy winner Dua Lipa, actress Michaela Coel, actress Penélope Cruz, and tennis champion Roger Federer.
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This year's event centers on the "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," which honors the Germany-born decorator who died successful 2019 astatine property 85.
"He was 1 of the astir influential and celebrated designers of the 21st period and an iconic, cosmopolitan awesome of style," his squad wrote connected Instagram astatine the clip of his death. "Driven by a phenomenal consciousness of creativity, Karl was passionate, almighty and intensely curious. He leaves down an bonzer bequest arsenic 1 of the top designers of our time, and determination are nary words to explicit however overmuch helium volition beryllium missed."
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For Karl, who designed for Fendi and Chanel as good arsenic his ain eponymous brand, designing was 2nd nature.
As helium told a reporter aft his archetypal Chanel runway amusement successful the '80s, "I plan similar I breathe. You don't inquire to breathe. It conscionable happens."
See Janelle's outfit translation below.
Watch Live From E!: Met Gala 2023 today, May 1, starting astatine 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.