More intricate outfits appearpublished at 23:24 BST 4 May
Image source, ReutersSabrina Harrison wearing an elaborate costume designed by Jean Paul Gaultier
Image source, ReutersGustav Magnar Witzoe
Summary
Beyoncé tells the BBC it feels great to be back at fashion's biggest night alongside her daughter and husband at the Met Gala in New York
It's the singer's first appearance at the gala in a decade, where she is co-chair alongside Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman and Anna Wintour
Meanwhile, pop star Sabrina Carpenter tells the BBC's Nada Tawfik that her dress is made from strips of film from the Audrey Hepburn classic Sabrina
Anne Hathaway and some of The Devil Wears Prada 2 cast get huge cheers from onlookers as they arrive
Heidi Klum's ultra-realistic statue outfit draws looks on the carpet, and Rihanna arrives just as it looked like things were finished
The dress code for this year's fundraiser is "Fashion is Art", celebrating the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring costume exhibition
The gala is not without controversy, with activists protesting billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's involvement as a sponsor
More intricate outfits appearpublished at 23:24 BST 4 May
Image source, ReutersImage caption, Image source, ReutersImage caption, The red carpet is 'heating' uppublished at 23:21 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Connor Storrie, one of the stars of hit show Heated Rivalry, walks the red carpet
Some dresses aren't made for stairspublished at 23:19 BST 4 May
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from the Met Gala
Image source, BBC / Nada TawfikIt takes a village! Author Suleika Jaouad showed up with her partner, musician Jon Batiste, and needed a little help getting up the carpet.
She said her look was inspired by her Tunisian heritage and designed by Christian Siriano.
Image source, FilmMagicImage caption, Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste at the gala
Some unusual outfits bring the dramapublished at 23:14 BST 4 May
Image source, Variety via Getty ImagesImage caption, British actress Gwendoline Christie, of Game of Thrones Fame, at the gala
Image source, Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueImage caption, Actor and singer Ben Platt wearing a Georges Seurat-inspired suit
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Away CEO Jen Rubio wearing a wood-inspired dress
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Australian film director Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin at the Met Gala
Lena Dunham peers out from behind red featherspublished at 23:10 BST 4 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Actress and writer Lena Dunham, a member of the gala host committee, on the red carpet
Actress, director and writer Lena Dunham has burst back onto the scene with her memoir Famesick, chronicling her chronic illness and the height of her fame as the creator, star and showrunner of Girls when she was a frequent invitee to the Met Gala.
One such time, Dunham fainted at the soiree and awoke to Maggie Gyllenhaal agreeing that the gala can be “overwhelming.” After a period away from the spotlight, when she “stopped being invited to the Met Gala, but people started inviting me to their weddings again,” she writes in Famesick, Dunham is back on the carpet for the event in custom red Valentino.
“I move towards the right thing in the wrong way,” she told CNN’s Rachel Tashjian, who likened that sensibility to having “taste.” Tonight it looks like she moved towards Nicole Kidman’s very similar taste…
Naomi Osaka's dress comes with a revealpublished at 23:08 BST 4 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion critic
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Tennis star Naomi Osaka
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Osaka's team removes her flowing white coat to reveal a different dress underneath
Finally some drama! Naomi Osaka, who arrived in white and red Robert Wun as one of the only guests truly serving thus far, didn’t disappoint on the Met steps where she gave us a second outfit reveal, this time a deep maroon dress with a lace-up back.
Image source, ReutersMore A-listers are arrivingpublished at 23:04 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Actress Claire Foy
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Singer Doja Cat
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Actress Zoe Kravitz
Some of the biggest names we've seen so farpublished at 22:58 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueImage caption, Co-chairs Nicole Kidman, Lauren Sánchez Bezos and Anna Wintour
Image source, WireImageImage caption, Venus Williams, another co-chair of the event
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Charli XCX
Sam Smith in shimmering blackpublished at 22:54 BST 4 May
What is it with black this year?
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Singer Sam Smith arrives in a flowing black gown with striking black feather fascinator
Charli XCX struts the carpet in a black mesh gownpublished at 22:54 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesPop star Charli XCX has arrived on the carpet wearing an embroidered black dress by Yves St Laurent.
And just to the right in the picture above you can see tennis player Naomi Osaka wearing an extragant white hat with red accents.
Gilded Age star Morgan Spector also opts for a fully black fitpublished at 22:47 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueImage caption, Actors Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector on the red carpet
More celebrities show off their lookspublished at 22:41 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Actress Chase Sui Wonders is dripping with diamonds in a pale lavender dress
Image source, The Hollywood Reporter via Getty ImagesImage caption, Google co-founder Sergey Brin poses with his partner Gerelyn Gilbert-Soto
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, American painter Amy Sherald holding a Dachshund-shaped handbag
Actor Bill Skarsgård sports an all-black coatpublished at 22:28 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesMore guests are trickling inpublished at 22:25 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueImage caption, French media personality Lena Mahfouf
Image source, Getty Images for The Met Museum/VogueImage caption, Writer and disability activist Sinéad Burke
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Journalist Hamish Bowles
Gala co-chair Venus Williams arrivespublished at 22:18 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, The former tennis star is accompanied by her husband Andrea Preti
This isn't Nicole Kidman's first rodeopublished at 22:17 BST 4 May
Scarlett Harris
Fashion criticNicole Kidman has always understood the power of fashion as art.
Remember her epic Chanel No. 5 short film directed by Baz Luhrmann in 2005, the year the culturista co-chaired the gala for the second time? Her first was in 2003, and this year marks the third time.
She’s again in custom red Chanel with feathers, attending alongside her daughter, model Sunday Rose.
“I’m so, so happy, and my daughter, Sunday, will be coming,” she told the Las Culturistas podcast.
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Nicole Kidman and her daughter Sunday Rose
Joshua Henry performs on the stepspublished at 22:11 BST 4 May
Nada Tawfik
Reporting from the Met Gala
Image source, Getty ImagesActor and singer Joshua Henry is performing on the steps of the Met Gala red carpet.
The Met Museum’s steps have been used before for mini fashion shows, such as when Lady Gaga kept shedding layers to reveal new looks in 2019, but I can’t remember a full fledged choreographed performance such as this.
Models and television stars pose for photospublished at 22:10 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, TV personality La La Anthony on the red carpet
Image source, AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, US model Ashley Graham posing on the red carpet
Lauren Sanchez Bezos walks the carpetpublished at 22:08 BST 4 May
Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Lauren Sanchez Bezos is one of the sponsors of the event along with her husband, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
Protesters gather outside of the Met Galapublished at 22:07 BST 4 May
Kali Hays
US business reporter
Image source, ReutersThe Met Gala is drawing its fair share of backlash this year, with protesters gathering outside.
It's a reaction that's been building for weeks - primarily over the sponsorship and involvement of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sanchez Bezos.
Last month, bright red posters began showing up at bus tops, subway stations and on the walls of Manhattan’s omnipresent construction sites calling for people to “boycott the Bezos Met Gala”.
On Friday, protesters placed hundreds of bottles of what was apparently urine inside The Met, and installed, external a basket of empty water bottles outside the museum, both in apparent reference to claims by Amazon workers over the years that they are so overworked they cannot take adequate bathroom breaks.
When the museum revealed in February that the Bezoses were not only sponsoring the event, but would be honorary chairs, some members of the fashion industry elite were dismayed.
Federico Marchetti, former chief executive of the Yoox Net-a-porter group, said online: “Jeff Bezos, please start paying the fair amount of taxes before sponsoring anything you want.”
Image source, Reuters