Met Gala 2022: Kylie Jenner’s Outfits Honor Virgil Abloh, Sarah Jessica Parker Honors Black Designer
The Met Gala 2022 red carpet is vibrant, as it features celebrities interpreting this year’s theme – ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion’ – in their own unique and fashionable ways. It’s also one of dedication, as fashion is often seen as a powerful tool for making a statement.
Kylie Jenner, who attended this year as well as after welcoming her second child, a son, walked the red carpet (and also attended by her sisters) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, basically, a wedding dress designed by Off-White, a high-fashion label founded by Virgil Abloh.
Photo: Instagram / @ kyliejenner
The white cape has ruffles and feather detailing on the bottom, and the top is made to look like a sheer corset, something that’s pretty consistent with the theme and dress code.
Abloh, also artistic director of Louis Vuitton menswear, has passed away cancer aged 41 last year, and Jenner honored him by sharing an Instagram post containing an album of photos she was getting ready.
Photo: Instagram / @ kyliejenner
“Me and Virgil were supposed to go to the Met together before it was postponed in 2020. To celebrate V tonight and his incredible legacy, really means the world to me. I humbly wear this dress and honor my beautiful and talented friend. We feel you tonight Virgil, and love you forever, and thank you to the entire team @off____white! ” read comments.
The reality TV star and makeup mogul completed her look with a white cap and veil, and donned a gold necklace that says ‘OFF’, along with long earrings. in gold and set with stones.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker, on the other hand, appeared at the gala in a look that was simply stunning and everything was regal. According to a Vogue Reportedly, she teamed up with fashion designer Christopher John Rogers to create a “beautiful garment”.
Rogers is quoted as saying: “What excites me most about dressing her up is how much of a historian and fashion lover she is. She is intentional about everything that she wears.”
According to the source, Parker’s outfit is a powerful homage to Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, who is credited with making history as the first Black female fashion designer in the White House. She was a former slave who moved from Virginia to Washington DC in 1860 to become “first lady Mary Todd Lincoln’s formal dressmaker”.
Keckley is also said to have dressed up for several Washington social venues.
“She’s a smaller designer, and someone people don’t really talk about. The idea was to highlight the dichotomy between the lavish, over-the-top rates of the time period and the disparity that was unfolding in America at the time,” said Rogers. Vogue.
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