The A-listers are out in full force tonight at the Met Gala, which has a theme this year of ‘Tailored For You’.
The event launches the Met’s new exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, which takes the Black dandy as its central subject and is inspired by co-curator Monica Miller’s 2009 book Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
A dress code is a nod to the exhibit’s focus on menswear, and is ‘purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation’.
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Kendall Jenner rocked up wearing a grey blazer with plunging neckline and matching grey skirt, paired with a pair of stilettos and diamond choker.
The look saw many Met Gala fans coming to the same conclusion, with people taking to X to say it looked like she was ready for a day at the office.
“It’s giving business attire,” one said, with another agreeing: “It’s giving business meeting.”
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A third wrote: “She thought it was a business meeting.”
And a fourth echoed: “Is she going to an office or met gala…”
But Jenner wasn’t the only one who seemed to take inspiration from the boardroom.
Commenting on a video of Hailey Bieber, another said: “Her and Kendall attending a business meeting.”
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Bieber, who attended without husband Justin, arrived wearing a black blazer dress with shoulder pads giving her an exaggerated frame – very Wall Street.
As she walked past press, she was even seen holding a martini in her hand, which surely must be the chicest accessory we’ve seen today.
The theme this year has so far seen everything from Diana Ross in a gigantic fur-trimmed cape to Zendaya out-memeing herself in a giant hat.
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“Dandyism can seem frivolous, but it often poses a challenge to or a transcendence of social and cultural hierarchies,” co-curator Miller said ahead of the event. “It asks questions about identity, representation, and mobility in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, and power.
“The exhibition explores this concept as both a pronouncement and a provocation. The exhibition title refers to ‘superfine’ not only as the quality of a particular fabric - 'superfine wool’ - but also as a particular attitude related to feeling especially good in one’s own body, in clothes that express the self.
“Wearing superfine and being superfine are, in many ways, the subject of this exhibition. And the separateness, distinction, and movement between these two states of ‘being’ in the African diaspora from the 1780s to today animates the show.”
Topics: Met Gala, Celebrity, Kendall Jenner, Hailey Bieber
Jess Hardiman