Fashion Historians Have a Lot of Questions About Kendall Jenner's Met Gala Dress
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Kendall Jenner is ready for her Met Gala close-up.
The supermodel made a splashy arrival tonight on the steps of New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. To honor this year’s “Garden of Time” dress code, Jenner turned back time in an outfit pulled from Alexander McQueen’s Givenchy 1999 couture collection.
She wore a sleek black dress made out of a glittery and slightly see-through light fabric. It featured V-shaped mesh panels across the hips, center, and back, as well as a sparkly gold spiked collar lining the plunging neckline. Embellishing each shoulder was a row of waist-length gold fringe, which bounced as Jenner moved up the stairs. To accessorize, she completed the outfit with an array of Lorraine Schwartz jewelry.
On the carpet, Jenner confirmed in an interview that she is the first person to ever put the archival Givenchy dress on. “I'm so, so incredibly honored to wear it. I'm the first human to wear it,” she said. “It showed on a mannequin.”
While it's true that the original piece debuted on a mannequin and not a live model, some fashion lovers on Twitter dug up a 1999 Flaunt photoshoot in which Winona Ryder appears to be wearing the same dress. It's currently unknown whether Jenner had been misinformed or Ryder was wearing a replica of the piece.
Tonight marks Jenner’s 10th appearance at the annual Met Gala. She last attended in 2023, when she honored the Karl Lagerfeld tribute theme in a Marc Jacobs bodysuit dripping in black sequins. The unique piece featured floor-grazing sleeves lined with quilted ivory fabric, as well as a bedazzled pointed collar.
This year’s dress code is “The Garden of Time,” a concept inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same name. In essence, the theme examines the intrinsic connection between time and natural beauty—leaving the door wide open for attendees to interpret the dress code as they please.
“The Garden of Time” also complements the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” which will include about “250 objects spanning four centuries” from the institute’s vast collection, all of them “visually united by iconography related to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion,” according to a press release. The exhibition will feature a number of modern technologies in its display, too, “from cutting-edge tools, artificial intelligence, and computer-generated imagery to traditional formats of x-rays, video animation, light projection, and soundscapes.”
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