The Euphoria prima dropped jaws astatine the 2024 Met Gala on May 6, erstwhile she arrived successful different superior style slay as co-chair of the lawsuit alongside Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth.
For the reddish carpet lawsuit successful New York, Zendaya wore a Maison Margiela mermaid-cut gown implicit with hummingbird details and poison ivy vibes. Her style—which acceptable the "Garden of Time" taxable of the "Sleeping Beauty: Reawakening Fashion" exhibition—also included a veiled fascinator and bold maroon oculus makeup, styled by Law Roach.
The ensemble was a last-minute decision for the manner team, arsenic Law told The New York Times in an interrogation published May 2 that he hadn't adjacent seen Zendaya's gown yet, adding, "The formal isn't adjacent made."
But this Met Gala is "very special" for the the Spider-Man actress, arsenic she told E! News past month, because she's celebrating with her Challengers costume decorator Jonathan Anderson—Loewe's originative director—who is serving as honorary seat alongside TikTok CEO Shou Chew.
Zendaya noted, "It felt similar the close clip to effort to spell backmost to the Met."
And erstwhile it comes to the inspiration down her style moments, the 27-year-old explained that "being connected the shier side" motivates her to usage manner to "experiment" and explicit herself.
"I know, wherefore bash I bash this for a surviving if I'm a shy person? I inquire myself that each day," she joked. "It conscionable adds this furniture of extortion and confidence. I get to benignant of make these characters, astir similar successful films."
This marks Zendaya's expansive instrumentality to the Met Gala after five years away. Her past quality was successful 2019, erstwhile she embraced fairytale vibes for the "Camp" taxable by going arsenic Cinderella with a light-up formal by Tommy Hilfiger.
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"This Met stressed maine out," she told British Vogue afterward. "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."
While saying she was "so grateful" for her style team, Zendaya noted, "They were nether a batch of pressure, you cognize what I'm saying? It needed a week."
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The Dune actress couldn't attend the bash successful much caller years, including successful 2022 erstwhile she passed owed to scheduling conflicts with filming Challengers, her latest movie astir competitory tennis. "I hatred to disappoint my fans here, but I volition beryllium working," she told Extra at the time. "Your girl's got to enactment and marque immoderate movies, truthful I privation everyone the best—I volition beryllium playing tennis."
Since then, Zendaya and her manner squad person undergone some large changes. Her longtime stylist Law announced his retirement successful March 2023, penning connected Instagram astatine the time, "My Cup is empty….. convey you to everyone who've supported maine and my vocation implicit the years."
"What I'm retiring from is the personage styling portion of it: the being successful work and astatine work of different people," helium told Vogue. "That's what I'm retiring from, yeah."