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Yahoo
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Rihanna & Her Baby Bump Close Out the 2025 Met Gala Red Carpet
Hours after Rihanna's surprise pregnancy reveal ahead of the 2025 Met Gala, the pop superstar made her way to the red carpet to show off her impeccable style and her new baby bump. The Met Gala legend perfectly embodied the night's 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' theme, wearing a menswear-inspired look that included a slouchy, wide-brimmed black hat; a gray corset over a white shirt collar topped by a black bolero jacket and burgundy polka-dot tie; and a pinstriped, button-down floor-length skirt. The skirt appeared to be created with an ultra-long men's blazer, with its sleeves tied at her waist. More from Billboard Rihanna Reveals She's Pregnant With Baby No. 3 at 2025 Met Gala 'The Blues Brothers' Return in First-Ever Graphic Novel See Madonna, Chappell Roan, Charli xcx & Lorde Squeeze In for Epic Met Gala Selfie Rihanna finished the mobster-chic look with the perfect shoe: a black heel with a white lace-up spat. A$AP Rocky, with whom Rihanna is expecting her third child, was a co-chair of this year's Met Gala, alongside Pharrell Williams, Colman Domingo and Lewis Hamilton, while LeBron James served as honorary chair. (James announced on X earlier Monday he had to cancel his appearance due to a knee injury he sustained at the end of the NBA season.) The 2025 Met Gala theme is 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,' which also inspired the Met Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition of the same name and explores the history of Black dandyism. Rihanna and Rocky share two sons together, RZA Athelston Mayers, who turns 3 years old this month, and 1-year-old Riot Rose Mayers. Best of Billboard Kelly Clarkson, Michael Buble, Pentatonix & Train Will Bring Their Holiday Hits to iHeart Christmas Concert Fox Plans NFT Debut With $20 'Masked Singer' Collectibles 14 Things That Changed (or Didn't) at Farm Aid 2021
Vogue Arabia
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Arabia
Eleanor Lambert, The Woman Who Created the MET Gala
Upon entering the fashion world, she discovered that American fashion was in its infancy compared to European fashion (New York was nothing compared to Paris), so she decided to put together a list of "best dressed" candidates. To add validity to her list, she put it up to a vote by department store creatives, editors from the most relevant fashion media and the most recognised agencies. The list left out the greatest Hollywood actresses and European royalty, but included heiresses and wives of some of the wealthiest individuals in the United States - a very exclusive selection that exuded sophistication. The result? A New York Times headline confirming that Eleanor Lambert was succeeding: 'The world has a new international centre of fashion.' Little by little, some Hollywood actresses began to make the list and, years later, it included a name that would gain great prominence: Jackie Kennedy. If you've ever wondered who turned John F. Kennedy's wife into a style icon, now you know. When did the MET Gala begin? The first gala benefiting the Metropolitan Museum's Met Costume Institute was held in 1948 by Eleanor Lambert. Eleanor Lambert was the very powerful woman who started the event that always gives us the best red carpet moments of the year. Some called her the queen of PR, others the empress of fashion. How did the MET Gala begin? The MET Gala was inaugurated in 1948, its original name being 'Gala of the Year,' with the intention of bringing fashion to museums. The event was created to raise funds to benefit the preservation and exhibition of fashion history through the Costume Institute, formerly the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity founded in 1937. Although the MET Gala is now held every first Monday in May, the first Gala of the Year was organised as a midnight dinner in the fall and was not held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the course of the following decades, its venue would move from Rockefeller Centre's Rainbow Room to the Waldorf Astoria. Eleanor Lambert had another pivotal moment in her career: she founded the CFDA. Yes, the renowned Council of Fashion Designers of America wouldn't exist if it wasn't for her. The council had a single goal: to support and nurture emerging talent. It was under the umbrella of this new project that the MET Gala was born. At the same time, Eleanor Lambert decided to make her Best Dressed List more official by forming a committee whose members were appointed to choose the names that would become part of what became the International Best Dressed List (and, later, the CFDA Awards). Lambert maintained control of the list until 2003, when, at the age of 99, she decided to hand over the responsibility to Vanity Fair , which continues to publish the list to this day. Thank you, Eleanor Lambert, for giving us the best red carpet of the year: the MET Gala. Article originally published on Vogue Mexico
The National
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The National
Met Gala 2025: Best tailored looks of the night
Lupita Nyong'o poses on the red carpet for the 2025 Met Gala, the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, in New York, New York, USA, 05 May 2025. The event coincides with the Met Costume Institute's spring 2025 exhibition ‘Superfine: Tailoring Black Style’ which will be on view from 10 May 2025 through 26 October 2025. EPA / JUSTIN LANE
