Met Gala 2023: This Year's Theme EXPLAINED

Jessica Chastain brought the play to Met Gala 2023—and Karl Lagerfeld would person loved it.

In grant of the evening's theme, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," the Oscar victor debuted newly platinum-blonde hair, a drastic alteration from her signature fiery-red tresses. And beryllium they hers oregon borrowed for the occasion, Chastain's locks were the epitome of fierceness—and respect. 

"Any guesses who's my inspo for contiguous ?" she captioned a preview of her Elizabeth Stewart-styled look connected Instagram, the quick video featuring her slipping connected immoderate acheronian square-lens shades, à la Lagerfeld. The German decorator was besides known for his snow-white hair, which helium ever wore pulled backmost successful a ponytail (lots of those astatine the Met tonight, too).

Chastain's custom achromatic strapless gown, deficiency tulle gloves, jewelry and sunglasses were each Gucci.

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Her porcelain complexion and constitution were courtesy of Charlotte Tilbury constitution and skincare. 

Chastain interviewed Lagerfeld astatine New York's Lincoln Center successful 2013, and helium encouraged her to inquire "mean questions" truthful helium could person a small fun. (It went well—he told the New York Times two years aboriginal that the histrion was "great.") 

Talking astir his aggregate titles arsenic originative manager of some Chanel and Fendi, arsenic good arsenic caput of his ain eponymous line, helium said helium didn't caput astatine each if radical didn't automatically link him with either Chanel oregon Fendi (not that that happened often). 

"I americium not obsessed by my name, I don't care," Lagerfeld said. "What I similar is simply a job. The ego trip, that comes later."

When it came to making gowns for big events that attracted a batch of eyeballs, helium said, "The reddish carpet is not fashion; it's ever the aforesaid silhouette. Fashion is thing other than the reddish carpet, but the reddish carpet is simply a portion of our world, our manner world."

And according to Met Gala seat and longtime Lagerfeld person Anna Wintour, helium also didn't judge that manner should ever beryllium successful a museum, that the manufacture should ever beryllium looking forward. So perhaps tonight was besides astir proving the precocious icon conscionable a teeny spot wrong. We consciousness similar helium wouldn't person objected to a soupçon of contrariness.

Keep scrolling for each the Met Gala 2023 silhouettes—we committedness there's much than one: