As is home custom, Thom Browne‘s 2024 Met Gala crew posed for a pre-carpet group picture, shared completely with The Hollywood Reporter.
The Thom Browne class of Met Gala 2024 group contains Cynthia Erivo, Rebecca Ferguson, Gigi Hadid, mannequin Alton Mason, NBA professional Ben Simmons, Jaden Smith, Steven Yeun and — making a uncommon purple carpet look collectively — Queen Latifah and her accomplice, choreographer/producer Eboni Nichols.
They gathered for his or her class picture at The Pierre New York lodge, carrying items that tackled the evening’s “The Backyard of Time” gown code and likewise converse to Browne’s laser-sharp imaginative and prescient and easy cool. On show among the many group of 9 are nature particulars, plaid and an entire lot of black and white.
Among the many greatest dressed stars of the evening, Erivo shocked in a black sequined Thom Browne set that contains a tailor-made jacket and skirt with a whimsical overlay of two,000 pink silk moiré petals and 3D beaded bugs. It’s topped off with a black silk satin tie. The Depraved star beforehand graced the 2017 Met Gala carpet carrying Thom Browne.
Cynthia Erivo in Thom Browne on the 2024 Met Gala.
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Ferguson’s high-neck look is clad in inexperienced and blue Swarovski crystal florets and black raffia ravens. It took 30 folks and eight,500 hours to make, and was crafted in 60,000 crystals and seven,000 folded petals. She paired it with a voluminous cape that additionally carried by the raven imagery.
Rebecca Ferguson in Thom Browne on the 2024 Met Gala.
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Seventy crafts folks had been wanted to create Hadid’s cascading corset gown adorned with three-dimensional yellow roses, inexperienced vines and thorns.
Gigi Hadid in Thom Browne on the 2024 Met Gala celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue“
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Mason sported an undone Thom Browne go well with fashion with frayed-edge trousers, a silk satin cummerbund and an outsized tailcoat in black deconstructed denim tweed. He additionally rose above the group in platform astronaut boots in black and white patent leather-based with the designer’s signature stripe element.
Alton Mason in Thom Browne on the 2024 Met Gala celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue”
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Browne, who lately threw an equally star-studded celebration in Los Angeles to have fun his partnership with Saks Fifth Avenue, is the present chairman of the Council of Vogue Designers of America.
This yr’s Met Gala gown code, “The Backyard of Time,” takes its cue from the 1962 quick story of the identical title by J.G. Ballard, which dovetails properly with the most recent Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue, which opens to the general public on Friday, Might 10. The Andrew Bolton-curated present spotlights fragile items from the institute’s archives, all considered by a lens of nature. The exhibit’s espresso desk e book might be launched on June 18.
Learn extra of The Hollywood Reporter’s Met Gala protection right here and take a look at all of the 2024 appears to be like right here.