A custom tulle corset dress. This red carpet outfit features an old Hollywood-inspired bodice and cascades in a blush shade-colored skirt and tail. When Kendall Jenner climbed the stairs of the New York Metropolitan Museum clad in a sheer dress that showed off her underwear and was full of bright inlays no one imagined that what she was actually doing with this look was pay tribute to Audrey Hepburn. “She’s the greatest of legends, I’ve always been obsessed with her. She’s perfect,” the model admits in a video recorded for the US edition of Vogue on the occasion of her fourth appearance at the MET gala .
The initial fascination did not let us see it but, after this one, we found that it was indeed so, and that Kylie Jenner’s sister’s way of paying tribute to the iconic actress was through this design that Matthew Williams, at the helm of Givenchy, created exclusively for the occasion and that is the perfect connection between French sewing and American cinema.
It was an interpretation of the dress that Hepburn wore in one of the scenes of My beautiful lady with this flattering neckline and these exquisite cascading sleeves. A piece for which, by the way, they explain that more than 30 people were needed working for 2,500 hours in the last three months so that he could get the look they were looking for.
That of Kendall and Audrey was not the only cinematic connection to this great night of fashion. There were many others who turned to the seventh art as a source of inspiration, among them Emily Blunt.
The actress known for roles such as A quiet place he fixed on lthe music tape Noia Ziegfeld dated 1941 and the protagonist, Hedy Lamarr, appears wrapped in a white tunic-type dress and a striking tiara full of stars.
On this basis it was Miu Miu who got his hands on the time to successfully get an updated version of the wardrobe of that film and what came out was an amazing costume that played with the openings, the glitters, pearls, chains and even a cape, masterfully. There was no shortage of headdresses related to the stars.
Sienna Miller on the other hand did not have to go that far to find the look she wanted to recreate for this edition of the gala the MET in which the theme was In America, a lexicon of fashion. She only needed to look back in the 90’s to become Sharon Stone’s Casino with her halter neckline and long volume-laden hair.
The funny thing is that this was not even the intention of the British on the red carpet because who was truly inspired was Barbie. Yes, yes, on the wrist that American Ruth Handler created in 1959 that changed the course of the toy store’s history. She herself explained it when she arrived with this Gucci piece with floral motifs embroidered with sequins, glass harness with feather coat and metallic leather sandals. Still, it’s inevitable that in our minds we see Ginger’s character.
Finally, another one that found a reef on the big screen was Billie Eilish. The young singer did not resort to a particular film although she was very clear that she wanted who she looked like — and she was one of the superstars in the industry, Marilyn Monroe. It was then that he approached Laura Kim and Fernando García, in front of Oscar de la Renda, in search of a look that drank from these references that had nothing to do with what she usually wears. And they not only understood what he wanted but they knew how to give exactly the key.
They created for the artist a tulle dress with a bodice and waterfalls in a pink skirt and tail that could well have worn in its time the damaged actress and with which Billie Eilish got his debut at the MET it was exactly how she wanted it, emulating the big one to one of the great divas of old Hollywood.
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