From Taylor Swift to Rihanna, see some of the A-listers who skipped this year’s Met Gala
The was packed with haute couture and household names, but a few key faces were missing from this year’s high-fashion fête.
Regular Gala-goers like , and skipped out on “The Garden of Time” theme for a number of reasons, ranging from busy work schedules to a case of the flu. Some typically coordinated couples didn’t step out at all, while other pairs only sent one partner to the Manhattan museum.
Find out why wasn’t dressed up alongside , what kept from the Met steps and more reasons why stylish stars opted out of fashion’s big night.
Rihanna
The “Umbrella” singer was a no-show on the Met steps this year. After the carpet ended and the Gala began behind closed doors, PEOPLE exclusively revealed that .
A source shared that the flu kept the style star from continuing her strong streak of , many of which she’s rocked alongside her longtime partner , who was also absent from the soirée.
Taylor Swift
Shortly before the first Monday in May, PEOPLE confirmed would in N.Y.C. Instead, the 14-time Grammy winner was locked into rehearsals as she prepares to continue her iconic Eras Tour in Europe starting this week and spanning until summer. Swift made her last as a bleach-blonde co-chair in 2016.
Blake Lively
Met Gala mainstay didn’t make an appearance at this year’s party, much to the disappointment of fans looking to see the stylish star dressing to this year’s theme, “The Garden of Time.” Over the years, the Gossip Girl alumna has reigned as one of the most anticipated faces on the Met Gala carpet with . In 2022, she co-chaired the event and channeled her city spirit in .
Brittany & Patrick Mahomes
and didn’t return to the Metropolitan Museum of Art following . But a few days before this year’s event, the couple was seen some states south of New York , where they .
Ben Affleck
Co-chair glittered in a on fashion’s biggest night of the year, but her husband was nowhere to be seen. A rep for the actor confirmed to PEOPLE that the actor was busy The Accountant 2, in Los Angeles.
Lady Gaga
Though it has been a few years since ’s last Met Gala appearance, her 2019 entrance at “” is hard to forget. She rocked not one, not two, not three, but four different looks during her walk up the stairs, which started with a voluminous pink cape and ended in lingerie.
While this was not the year, the superstar has left quite the high bar for whenever she does choose to return to the Gala. Just a few days before fashion’s biggest night, Gaga along with the caption “🖤🎼💋music is not work I’m so lucky.”
Travis Barker & Kourtney Kardashian
and made their Met Gala debut in 2022, a year before the pair tied the knot in 2023. After skipping last year’s party as well, the two were absent again this year after sharing in recent days that they’ve been .
Katy Perry
After missing last year’s Gala, was also a no-show this year, but that didn’t keep fans from dreaming up what she would’ve worn to fit the “Garden of Time” theme. Even the singer herself got in on the fun, sharing of her wearing a floral, fairytale-inspired gown at the event. “Couldn’t make it to the MET, had to work,” she captioned her Instagram post.
Perry, whose last appearance was at the 2022 event, has been busy with all things in recent weeks though after dressing as a and in years past we wish we could have seen what she would have whipped up this year.
Chrissy Teigen
As the stars were making their way down the red carpet at this year’s Met Gala, shared a photo to her Instagram Story of herself wearing a foam neck brace along with the caption “@ the Met!” A few slides later she clarified that she’s “fine” but is wearing the brace after she “tried to do a headstand.”
She went on to say that the injury was not the reason she wasn’t walking the red carpet, explaining that she “was never going to the Met this year.”
Teigen last hit the carpet with husband in 2017.
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