The stars of the highly-anticipated Jon Chu-directed movie adaptation dazzle in pink and green.
Met Gala veterans Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo hit this year’s cream and mossy green carpet in looks subtly inspired by their November movie adaptation of beloved Broadway musical Wicked. The subtle inspiration in question? Pink and green accents.
The more understated of the two, Grande, wore a white Loewe mother-of-pearl gown designed by creative director Jonathan Anderson. Under the lights of the red carpet, the dress shimmered in pastel shades of the Wicked-themed colors. Erivo sported a Thom Browne two-piece set featuring tux details, pink petals and scattered insects, including what look to be green praying mantises. See all the 2024 Met Gala looks here.
The duo kicked off their ‘Wicked’ method dressing at the Oscars. Grande — playing the good witch Glinda — wore a bubblegum pink Giambattista Valli Haute Couture gown. Erivo channeled her character Elphaba in a green leather Louis Vuitton dress that fashion designer Jenna Lyons and HauteLeMode style critic Luke Meagher swooned over in a THR exclusive video. “Listen, the Wicked press tour has begun,” said Meagher after the Oscars.
Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande at the 2024 Met Gala celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”
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At the 2024 Met Gala, Grande paired her Loewe gown with platforms from Stuart Weitzman’s best-selling Nudist collection, Lorraine Schwartz jewelry and a full face of her own makeup line r.e.m. beauty. And Erivo accessorized with black patent leather platform boots also by Thom Browne.
The stars gushed over each other during Vogue‘s pre-event interviews. Grande said, “Getting to know and love [Cynthia] has changed my life.” Erivo returned the love, describing Grande as “spectacular.”
At other Met Galas, Grande has sported a Sistine Chapel-inspired ball gown by Vera Wang, adorned with Michelangelo’s Last Judgement fresco, to 2018’s event. Grande, a pioneer of the coquette trend, paired it with an oversized hair bow that gracefully trailed down the back of her dress.
Ariana Grande on carpet at the 2018 Met Gala “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
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Cynthia Erivo made her first Met Gala appearance in all-white Thom Browne for 2017’s event honoring Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo, and she stunned in a full white look a second time for 2022’s In America: An Anthology of Fashion — with the dress code “Gilded Glamour and White Tie” — where she wore a Louis Vuitton lace dress, trunk and coordinating head wrap.
Cynthia Erivo in Louis Vuitton on the carpet at the 2022 Met Gala 2022 “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”
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This year’s dress code, “The Garden of Time,” takes its cue from the 1962 short story of the same name by J.G. Ballard, which dovetails nicely with the latest Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which opens to the public on Friday, May 10. The Andrew Bolton-curated show spotlights fragile pieces from the institute’s archives, all viewed through a lens of nature. The exhibit’s coffee table book will be released on June 18.
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