Lorde Says Her Met Gala Look Is an ‘Easter Egg': Here's What It Represents
Lorde attended her first Met Gala in four years Monday (May 5), but she wasn't just there for fun. According to the pop star, she also used the event to tease something coming in the future, revealing that the look she wore on the red carpet is an 'Easter egg' that also happens to express how she's feeling in terms of her gender identity.
While speaking to Vogue correspondent Emma Chamberlain on the carpet ahead of the event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Lorde was eager to show off her custom Thom Browne getup. Twirling around in a shiny slate skirt, suit jacket and gravity-defying strip of fabric that covered her chest, the 'Green Light' singer pointed out her favorite parts of the look.
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'This is my creation,' she began. 'It's something of an Easter egg. More will be revealed.' Lorde then told Chamberlain, 'I just love the open back.'
'To me it really represents where I'm at gender-wise,' she added. 'I feel like a man and a woman, kind of vibe.'
The event comes less than a week after Lorde announced her fourth studio album, Virgin, meaning fans have both a lot of music to look forward to as well as ample room to start decoding by way of Easter eggs. The New Zealand native has previously teased that the LP will find her exploring her relationship to gender, telling the Document Journal in a recent interview that she composed the project during a period of time in which she started to 'feel [her] gender broadening a little bit.'
Lorde last dropped an album in 2021, with Solar Power bowing at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. That year was also the last time she attended a Met Gala, dressing in a sun goddess-esque look for the theme 'In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.' This year, she and countless other stars on the 2025 guest list dressed for the theme 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' which focused on 'the role of sartorial style in forming Black identities' and the 'proliferation of the Black dandy.'
Watch Lorde's interview with Vogue on the 2025 Met Gala carpet below.
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