Call it The Great Gatsby effect. On May 2, many of your favorite Hollywood A-Listers swept New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art to attend the 2022 Met Gala.
Last year’s Met Gala, which was postponed to September 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, kicked off part one of the two-part celebration of American fashion with the theme “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.” This year’s theme, “Gilded Glamour,” is a lavish follow-up celebrating the Gilded Age of fashion, specifically the elaborate white-tie formalwear the late 1800s was famous for. Sure, that might mean corsetry, diamonds, and bustles to some, but to others it meant covering themselves in luxurious feathers.
Emma Stone was one of the first to hit the carpet in a feathered dress, which just so happened to hold extremely sentimental value. According to Vogue, the semisheer archival Louis Vuitton dress, which features a feathered hemline, was the same dress Stone wore to her wedding after-party.
Stone wasn’t the only one decked out in a bridal-worthy feather number. Both Eiza Gonzáles and Hailey Bieber wore stunning white dresses with dramatic feathered flair. Gonzáles arrived in a glittering dress with feathered sleeves and train, while Bieber wore a slinky white Saint Laurent silk look with a feather-lined robe.
Of course, other celebrities found ways to incorporate color into their feathered looks, like Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan, who did Penelope Featherington proud in a pink and black Richard Quinn gown with massive puffed sleeves, black formal gloves, a billowing black train, and pink and black feathers dancing off the fabric.
Let’s take a closer look at these incredible details, shall we?
Some other celebs who embraced this year’s trend include actor-comedian Kate Micucci, Emily in Paris star Ashley Park, and Sarah Jessica Parker, who added a feathered fascinator by Philip Treacy to her Christopher John Rogers gown.
Let’s just say more is officially more. Both parts of the In America: An Anthology of Fashion exhibit will be open to the public from May 7 until September 5, 2022.
