Cardi B says the technique stays the identical for each Met Gala look: “Be iconic.”
The Grammy Award-winning rapper and her stylist Kollin Carter — just lately featured on the quilt of The Hollywood Reporter’s Prime Stylists subject — have been in prep mode for months as she has emerged as one to observe on vogue’s largest evening due to head-turning appearances that date again to 2018.
“We’re at all times considering forward,” Cardi advised THR in late March throughout a short interview inside Sundown Tower, website of a celebration for Hollywood’s high picture makers. “I really feel just like the Met Gala is nearly like going to the Grammys. It’s very nerve-racking, and despite the fact that we make it look really easy, we actually be so nervous.”
Although Cardi remained tight-lipped about what she and Carter have in retailer for this yr, they’ll have loads of inspiration to tug from. Happening on Monday, the 2024 installment of the Met Gala celebrates the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Style, and can carry a costume code of “The Backyard of Time.” Andrew Bolton, a curator on the Costume Institute, advised Vogue, “It is rather a lot an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of vogue. One factor I hope this present will activate is that sensorial appreciation of vogue.”
That needs to be no subject for Cardi and Carter who’ve proven an appreciation for vogue of their prior Met Gala collaborations, seen beneath. “We at all times attempt to guarantee that every part goes proper, that every part be iconic. We wish every part to be iconic. I do know folks typically be like, ‘Oh, it’s not about who’s there and who shouldn’t be,’ nevertheless it’s like, no, you could keep in mind us endlessly.”
Cardi B on the Met Gala in 2023, sporting customized Chenpeng Studio as a tribute to “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Magnificence.”
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Cardi B, in 2022, sporting a column costume by Atelier Versace that was embroidered with golden metallic chains and Medusa medallions as a tribute to gilded glamour.
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For the Camp: Notes on Style theme in 2019, Cardi B selected a dramatic burgundy robe by Thom Browne with feathers, an embellished headpiece and quilted practice.
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Cardi B arrived arm-in-arm with Moschino’s Jeremy Scott in 2018, because the twosome paid tribute to the theme of Heavenly Our bodies in customized seems by the designer.
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