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Zendaya Continues to Ace Her Style Game With Head-Turning Outfit Change
When it comes to fashion, nary 1 shakes it up like Zendaya.
And successful a fewer days, she'll make a triumphant return to the 2024 Met Gala on May 6 after a five-year hiatus. In fact, the Euphoria star is co-chairing the New York City lawsuit with Anna Wintour, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Jennifer Lopez.
While stars typically program their looks months successful beforehand for fashion's biggest night, Zendaya's longtime stylist Law Roach revealed they officially don't person a formal yet.
"I haven't seen Zendaya's dress!" the representation designer told The New York Times successful an interrogation published May 2. "We've been connected two property tours—Dune 2 and Challengers—and doing 2 Vogue covers."
He confessed, "The formal isn't adjacent made. They won't acceptable until Saturday."
Considering Law and Zendaya are benignant pros, fans tin expect thing abbreviated of spectacular. And with the Met Gala dress codification being "The Garden of Time," the 27-year-old will apt bring a manner phantasy to the reddish carpet.
After all, Zendaya couldn't beryllium much excited to return to the event. As she told E! News' Will Marfuggi at the Challengers premiere April 16, "It felt similar the close clip to effort to spell backmost to the Met."
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For the Spider-Man: No Way Home actress, uncovering the close look on the reddish carpet has go her superpower.
"Law and I, evidently we've been moving unneurotic for galore years and we've been doing themed dressing since Greatest Showman," she explained. "It's truthful bully to beryllium capable to experimentation with fashion."
Before Zendaya graces the 2024 Met Gala, support speechmaking to relive each of her fierce and fabulous looks astatine the lawsuit implicit the years.
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2015
Zendaya made her Met Gala debut successful 2015, opting for a customized Fausto Puglisi sun-motif formal to coincide with the year's theme, "China: Through the Looking Glass."
The Euphoria star, who lone tried connected the formal doubly earlier making her quality astatine the New York City event, aboriginal admitted to People that the high-pressure nighttime was "overwhelming but successful the champion way."
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2016
Keeping with the "Manus x Machina" taxable for 2016's ball, Zendaya rocked a bronze one-shoulder gown by Michael Kors and a chic mushroom-cut wig.
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2017
Zendaya looked ethereal successful her tropical-print Dolce & Gabbana gown astatine the 2017 event, which boasted a "Rei Kawakubo & Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" theme.
The get-up turned truthful galore heads that adjacent Rihanna had to instrumentality note. Sharing a photograph of the Challengers histrion connected her Instagram, Rihanna wrote successful the caption, "Brown goddess."
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2018
The Disney Channel alum had her Joan of Arc infinitesimal successful 2018, arriving to the Metropolitan Museum of Art clad successful a silver, armor-inspired Atelier Versace formal with concatenation message detailing. She completed the look—which gave a motion to the taxable of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"—with metallic Jimmy Choo heels and a reddish bob akin to the French saint’s hair.
Zendaya aboriginal declared it 1 of her favourite reddish carpet looks of each time, telling InStyle successful October 2021, "I was similar a warrior."
And she wasn't the lone 1 who was a large fan. Her Spider-Man costar Tom Holland—who she confirmed her romance with successful 2021—also gave the daring attire a peculiar shoutout astatine the time, penning connected Instagram, "All hail the queen. Killing it mate."
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2019
Zendaya channeled her Disney roots to alteration into a real-life princess successful 2019. Since the taxable was "Camp: Notes connected Fashion," the Shake It Up histrion didn't shy distant from going all-out with a bluish Tommy Hilfiger gown that lit up. To headdress disconnected her Cinderella moment, she was accompanied by her stylist Law Roach, who was dressed arsenic her fairy godmother.
But arsenic iconic arsenic her outfit was, Zendaya said the logistics down the it made her locomotion down the reddish carpet beauteous anxiety-inducing.
"This Met stressed maine out," she told British Vogue afterward. "I was fundamentally wearing a formal that was electronic. I got there, and it wasn't ready. It was expected to bash a small spot much than it did, similar it was expected to commencement smaller and get bigger."
Don't miss E!'s Live From E!: 2024 Met Gala reddish carpet Monday, May 6, starting astatine 6 p.m. for each must-see infinitesimal from fashion's biggest night. And tune successful to E! News Tuesday, May 7, astatine 11 p.m. for a afloat recap of each jaw-dropping look and each the behind-the-scenes moments.
