Met Gala 2019 theme: Priyanka Chopra and Lady Gaga lead the way with best 'camp' pink carpet looks
This year's event celebrates the concept of 'camp'
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The annual Met Gala is regarded as one of the most significant sartorial fixtures of the year.
On the first Monday of May, A-listers from the worlds of entertainment, politics, fashion and beyond grace the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City for the event.
This year, Lady Gaga, Serena Williams, Harry Styles and Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele have been made co-chairs at the event, alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
The theme for the 2019 Met Gala is "Camp: Notes on Fashion", taking inspiration from an essay on the topic penned in 1964 by writer Susan Sontag.
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From the Jenners to the Olsen sisters and mother-daughter duos, a host of female guests decided to recruit the most important women in their lives to join them for the star-studded event.
Actor Ezra Miller concealed his face at the Met Gala with a mask on a stick.
Miller went on to bare his true identity, revealing that his face had been painted with five optical-illusion eyeballs.
He wore a pinstripe Burberry suit that featured a long train and a pearl corset.
center no-repeat #999999;cursor:pointer;background-size: 9px 10px;top:-8px; border-radius: 2px;">↵ Tiffany Haddish hid home-made fried chicken in her Michael Kors clutch bag on the Met Gala's pink carpet.
“Last year I came and there was not enough food and I was hungry,” she told E! News.
“When I’m hungry my attitude’s not good so I said I’m gonna be prepared this year. So I brought chicken."
Newlyweds Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner wore co-ordinating outfits to the Met Gala, both opting for colourful Louis Vuitton looks.
Jonas sported a graphic roll neck top and trousers while Turner wore a sequin jumpsuit and black heels.
The couple recently tied the knot in a surprise wedding ceremony in Las Vegas.
Model Cara Delevingne opted for a sheer rainbow-striped mini dress and matching tights for the 2019 Met Gala.
The 26-year-old finished the look with a cane, platform heels and a dramatic headpiece that featured everything from bananas and false teeth to a fried egg.
Lupita Nyong’o wore a multi-coloured dress that featured a sheer sparkly gown and rainbow wings.
She accessorised the look with gold Afro picks in her hair and a giant fan.
Solange Knowles opted for a python bodysuit and matching thigh-high boots by Salvatore Ferragamo.
“Solange is daring,” Paul Andrew, the brand's creative director, told Vogue.
“Daring in her style, beauty, aesthetic and music. We created a look with unexpected materials while paying homage to the ‘camp’ theme through an exaggeration of python skin, and the masculine structure of the jacket cut paired with the femininity of our ‘F wedge’ thigh-high boots."
Fashion fans have taken to Twitter to share their disappointment that Rihanna and Blake Lively didn't attend this year's Met Gala.
“Rihanna and Blake Lively are the queens of the met gala and they didn’t come?? It’s cancelled [sic],“ one person commented.
Designer Diane von Furstenberg's Met Gala outfit was a tribute to her late mother on what was the 75th anniversary of the day she was arrested and sent to Auschwitz.
The 72-year-old revealed hours before the event that she would be arriving on the red carpet dressed as the Statue of Liberty, holding high the torch of freedom in honour of her mothe, Liliane Nahmias.
"Today May 6, 1944, my mother was arrested and sent to Auschwitz..." Von Furstenberg wrote on Instagram.
"75 years later, I am going to the Met Ball as her torch of Freedom!"
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