Met Gala 2023: This Year's Theme EXPLAINED

Hold connected tight, spider monkey: Kristen Stewart has officially arrived astatine the 2023 Met Gala.

The Twilight alum, 33, turned heads arsenic she stepped retired astatine New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art connected May 1. For the event, Kristen wore a chic suit with a cropped apical and Chanel belt. (See all the can't-miss manner here.)

This year's Costume Institute Benefit pays tribute to Karl Lagerfeld with its formal code and grounds "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty." The designer—who served arsenic the originative manager of Fendi and Chanel during his lifetime—passed distant astatine property 85 successful 2019.

Kristen, who's been a Chanel ambassador since 2013 and often wears the manner house's designs, remembered Karl fondly pursuing his death.

"It's comic however helium presents—so austere and truthful scary. He wasn't though," she told Vanity Fair in 2019. "He was incredibly inviting—insanely, shockingly unpretentious. He liked what helium liked due to the fact that helium liked it. He was a fancy motherf--ker, but it was existent to him. It's astir similar helium sensed helium was intimidating, truthful helium was like, 'No. To person a originative bosom is daunting, but let's get it beating faster and harder.'"

For this year's Met Gala, Michaela Coel, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa and Vogue's Anna Wintour are serving arsenic co-chairs.

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