Met Gala 2023: Why Blake Lively Is NOT Attending This Year
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Less than 4 months aft Rita Ora confirmed she was a married woman, the vocalist stepped retired with hubby Taika Waititi for the 2023 Met Gala.
When arriving astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art May 1, Rita stunned successful a black draping Prabal Gurung gown with sheer panels. The look included a flowing cape connected the formal and agelong concatenation accessories connected her nails to adhd adjacent much flair.
As for Taika, helium looked handsome successful a agelong dusty bluish overgarment worn implicit pick trousers with a achromatic floral brooch and achromatic beaded details. (See adjacent much prima sightings on the reddish carpet here.)
Titled "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty," the theme of this year's Met Gala hopes to honor the precocious manner designer, who died successful 2019 astatine the property of 85. According to Vogue, guests were asked to dress "in grant of Karl" to observe the galore labels helium worked for, including his eponymous brand, Fendi, Chanel and Balmain.
Rita herself has been a longtime instrumentality of Karl. In fact, she erstwhile revealed her astir prized possession successful her closet was a customized formal from the designer.
But if there's 1 happening to cognize astir the 32-year-old, it's the elemental information that she isn't acrophobic to instrumentality a reddish carpet risk.
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"My benignant is antithetic each day, but ever recognizable," she told Vogue in November 2019. "I similar glitz and I similar bold signature pieces that liven up my look."
As for who we can thank for Rita's emotion for fashion? It whitethorn conscionable travel from Madonna.
"She is specified a badass," the vocalist told Fashion Week Daily successful September 2021. "When I was younger, I was into making my ain outfits and I would spell digging successful flea markets to find the cleanable pieces. That's astir apt my earliest manner memory."
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