The Met Gala 2021 red carpet is finally back after a long hiatus, and it is bigger and better than ever. Celebrities including JLo, tennis champions Emma Raducanu and Serena Williams, Zoe Kravitz, Kim Kardashian and Kendall Jenner, Kristen Stewart, Rihanna and ascended the Metropolitan Museum steps in New York in their most beautiful gowns.
Here's everything you've missed.
Met Gala 2021 theme
This year, the event exceptionally happened in September, but it will be back to its normal schedule of the first Monday in May in 2022.
The Met Gala 2021 red carpet theme was American Independence, to tie in with the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition for the Costume Institute: In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.
The exhibition explores ‘a modern vocabulary of American style emphasising the expressive qualities of dress and deeper associations with issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion’ and ‘will present narratives that explore the development of American fashion as they relate to the complex and layered histories of those spaces’.
Met Gala 2021 red carpet
As usual, celebrities' interpretation of the theme was highly subjective. Some embraced a 1920s Prohibition-Era look (hi Sienna, JLo, Rita Ora and Margaret Qualley), while others just went for colourful statement gowns (Carey Mulligan, Chiara, Emily Ratajkowski, Amanda Gorman).
The monochrome brigade was also out in full force. Gigi Hadid, Cynthia Erivo, Claire Danes and Cara Delevingne all opted for head-to-toe white, though Cara's Dior bustier added a dose of sass with its 'Peg The Patriarchy' slogan.
Meanwhile, Hailey Bieber, Maisie Williams, Kaia Gerber, Sharon Stone and Rihanna all donned black gowns, proving the timeless hue will never go out of style.
If you're going to hit the Met Gala, you might as well make a statement, so it's no surprise sheer and revealing cut-outs featured aplenty. Taraji P. Henson, Laura Harrier and Teyana Taylor looked particularly fierce.
Without further ado, here are the best looks from the soirée.
Amanda Gorman
In Vera Wang
Kendal Jenner
Jennifer Lopez
Wearing Ralph Lauren
Brooklyn Beckham and Vanessa Peltz
Teyana Taylor
Maisie Williams
Taika Waititi and Rita Ora
Wearing Prada
Kendall Jenner, Sharon Stone and Gigi Hadid
Kendall in Givenchy, Sharon in Thome Brown and Gigi in Prada
Diane Kruger
Laura Harrier
Carey Mulligan
In Valentino
Lily-Rose Depp
In Chanel
Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell
In Oscar de la Renta
Timothée Chalamet
Cara Delevingne
Wearing Dior
Naomi Osaka and Cordae
Naomi wears custom Louis Vuitton
Tessa Thompson and Zoë Kravitz
Zoe wears Saint Laurent
Alicia Keys
ASAP Rocky and Rihanna
Sienna Miller and Emily Blunt
Sienna in Gucci, Emily in Miu Miu
Venus Williams
Aldis Hodge and Cynthia Erivo
Megan Fox
Iman
Lorde
wearing Bode
Emily Ratajkowski
In Vera Wang
Kaia Gerber
In Oscar de la Renta
Adut Akech
Ciara and Mary J. Blige
Lupita Nyong'o
Hailee Steinfeld and Olivia Rodrigo
Paloma Elsesser
Kate Hudson
In Michael Kors
Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber
Hailey wears Saint Laurent
Gemma Chan
Camila Cabello and Winnie Harlow
Gabrielle Union
Karlie Kloss and Wes Gordon
