Lauren Sánchez has garnered numerous nasty social media commentary for her apparel, particularly for a revealing gown worn to a current White Home state dinner. Simply final evening, her signature type was on show at a night-before Met Gala get together, in honor of Monse designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia, the place Sánchez donned a strapless see-through black lace Monse mega mini — not a ordinary search for the designers who’re additionally behind the Oscar de la Renta label. For sure, the lingerie-like look bought extra of the identical response.
For the precise Met Ball crimson carpet — a primary Met stairs stroll for Sánchez — she was accompanied by her future husband, Jeff Bezos (that’s, one of many richest males on the planet).
And, cease the presses, Sánchez’s look was not probably the most bare, excessive, or eye-popping gown on on the Met Museum — as a result of at this 12 months’s Met Ball, there have been already a plethora of corsets and cleavage and butt-baring clothes (see: Emily Ratajkowski.)
Against this, Sánchez’s theme applicable Oscar de la Renta mega-gown was an actual switch-a-roo for her. Whereas her evening earlier than and evening of seems to be have been created by the identical design workforce, they couldn’t have been extra totally different. Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim are to thank for that — their design aesthetic for the gown, they advised Vogue, was “elevated” and “polished.” The black velvet corset and full stained-glass-looking voluminous (an understatement) skirt was made from precise plexiglass shards — harmful!
Sánchez likes dwelling on the sting — she flies her personal helicopters, in any case. Sanchez advised Vogue upon arrival, “I didn’t need folks saying ‘Oh, that’s so Lauren — horny, low reduce. I mentioned, ‘No, I believe I’m going to strive one thing else.” The skirt — in black, silver and white — resembling a cracked mirror or items of tile is the designers’ ode to Artwork Nouveau and the stained glass work of Louis Consolation Tiffany. The gown, known as the Reflective Rosette mosaic ball city, additionally includes a corseted black velvet bustier, whereas the skirt is constituted of round 2,000 hand-dyed mosaic items. In whole, it took round 600 hours to finish. See all of the 2024 Met Gala clothes right here.
Lauren Sanchez attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue” at The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Might 06, 2024 in New York Metropolis.
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Even restaurateur Keith McNally, a current Sánchez critic, was a fan of her Met Gala look. “It by no means feels good when actuality doesn’t match one’s narrative, however I have to admit that Bezos and Sánchez each regarded beautiful and really stunning tonight,” he posted on Instagram.
The most recent Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue, opens to the general public on Friday, Might 10. The Andrew Bolton-curated present spotlights fragile items from the institute’s archives, all seen by a lens of nature. The exhibit’s espresso desk e book can be launched on June 18.
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