The Met Gala dress code, “fashion is art,” asked guests to examine fashion as an embodied art form. Some attendees took a more literal approach.
Blackpink singer and rapper Lalisa Manobal, who goes by Lisa, wore a white, diamond-encrusted gown that featured two additional arms protruding from her shoulders, holding a dramatic veil over her head.
In an interview, Lisa said the limbs were modeled after her: “These are my actual arms — 3-D.”
Then there was Nichapat Suphap, the Thai fashion consultant and editor, who posed on the carpet wearing a black mermaid-style gown adorned with several silver hands cupping her breasts, hip and thigh.
Finally, Tony Award-winning producer and performer Jordan Roth wore a gray velvet frock with a matching anatomical structure towering over his shoulders that resembled a conjoined twin.
Robert Wun, the London-based designer known for his dramatic pieces, was behind all three looks.
Among the first of the night to turn up was Lena Mahfouf, the French social media personality also known as Léna Situations, who wore a barely-there gown by designer Burc Akyol featuring bronzed-sculpted hands cupping her breasts and a powder blue drop-waist skirt with drapery.
And Sabine Getty, the jewelry designer and socialite, wore a custom Ashi Studios couture gown with an oil-painting of a woman’s torso with hands resting on her chest and lower abdomen.
Gina Cherelus covers dating, relationships and culture for The Times and writes the weekly dating column Third Wheel.
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