If Hollywood had its way, eccentricity would be an everyday accessory. But lucky for us, fashion mayhem is mostly confined to select spectacles, chief among them, the Met Gala. Sure, every red carpet pretends to summon style icons from fashion ages past, but the Met Gala? It speed dials designer drama and high-camp creativity in equal measure. It is where New York’s skyline morphs into Blake Lively’s gown, Rihanna reinvents the Vatican in velvet, and Jared Leto turns into a designer house cat. 

From chic chandeliers to gowns that giggle at gravity, the Met has seen it all. But this year, the blue carpet upped the ante with keyboard couture and helmet headpieces, fueling enough fashion revisits for weeks. 

Fashion is not without logic. And at fashion’s biggest night, André 3000 carried an important one on his shoulders when he walked on the blue carpet with an enormous piano strapped to his back. Despite his infamous incognito Met entry the last time, André 3000 did not play by the seasoned couture act.

Instead, cashing in on the knock-it-out-of-the-park ethos of the Met, the OutKast rapper dropped a surprise new EP, ‘7 piano sketches,’ on his way to the museum. He sported a Burberry navy coverall complete with round-rim glasses, a red hat, and, well, a trash bag with hopefully no labels.

After Marc Jacobs teased his Met Gala muses with silhouette releases, fans crash-landed with fashion theories to fill in the Met guest list with eyes blindfolded. Yet, when Doja Cat strutted down in a crystal pinstriped bodysuit with shoulder wool jacket top and ocelot-print velvets detailed with conical cups, and sculptured shoulders, the Marc Jacobs muse reeked of feline royalty a second time after her 2023 homage to Karl Lagerfeld.

While you may or may not like it, Cat understood her feline fashion assignment.

The Met Gala is a slay parade. But to assume every definition of slayage is one, and the same is far-fetched. As a result, when Amelia Gray donned Valentino head-to-toe, reeking of blood red with an elongated trail, cropped suit, and lace underwear, she raised a few eyebrows.

While couture is never about comfort, Gray’s take on Tailored for You made a few ask whether the drama she signed up for truly intended the opposite. 

Once A-listers make their Met Gala entries, they can join either the camp of best-dressed or worst-dressed celebrities. But a select few land right in between, and Damson Idris did just that after pulling up in an APXGP race car in Tommy Hilfiger.

Hilfiger dressed Idris, inspired by his upcoming F1 movie, in a racing suit featuring a dazzling red, white, and blue helmet, studded with a whopping 20,000 Swarovski crystals. After the blue carpet reveal, the racing suit was torn for another statement in a custom Tommy Hilfiger rouge tuxedo and Tommy Tartan plaid flare featuring golden beads, custom buttons, and powder blue Ithaca stripe. 

Yet, Idris was not the only A-lister who went extra.

The Met Gala is nothing without the extra and A-listers know it better than the rest. Thus, when Diana Ross walked the blue carpet, she brought everyone to a halt with an endless train that covered almost the entire step leading into the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

While the Met Gala has seen quite the iconic trains, Ross revealed to Vogue's livestream that her voluminous train hides the names of her five children and eight grandchildren underneath.

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Ross wore a show-stopping feathery jacket over a low-cut silver-sequined gown, paired with a wide-brim hat, resembling a fairy’s halo.

If the Met Gala has schooled anything, it is that fashion is always about risks. At the 2025 Met Gala, many took bets on their coattails, but none like Janelle Monáe, who redefined self-expressionism with dandyism on the blue carpet. Despite being an Afro-futurist, Monáe paid homage to the past as “the time-traveling dandy,” flexing a suit under a suit.

The multi-hyphenate wore a Paul Tazewell black, red, and white pinstripe suit with broad, sculptured shoulders. She topped off the look with a bowler hat with a clock monocle, and a unique diamond brooch pinned to her tie made from tequila. According to Page Six, 1800 Tequila tapped designer Jonathan Raksha for the 5.5-carat emerald-cut stone of the actual 1800 Cristalino tequila.

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Safe to say, Monáe dialed back time with black aesthetics. 

Goth and gory? Jenna Ortega calls that comfort couture. While the Met Gala steps are anything but cozy, she arrived draped in what might be her most aesthetically jarring look to date in a strapless, silver Balmain creation stitched together from metallic rulers. It was the couture kind that measures drama in inches.

The architectural number was paired with a diamond-encrusted collar necklace from Grown Brilliance, a stack of Hearts on Fire rings, and curls that scream glam but make it goth. To be fair, no one has ever made fashion history by playing it safe. Similarly, the Met is not about blending in but pushing the boundaries and cultures.

Sure, some blue carpet looks might feel bizarre or borderline bonkers, but fashion is not just what you wear; it is the language of identity, power, and legacy. And if the Met armors left the world in a state of daze, just remember: History is not written in ink in Hollywood; it is tailored, hemmed, and worn.

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