Here Are Our Favorite Met Gala Looks

The first Monday in May is almost upon us, which can only mean one thing: The Met Gala has arrived. This year, the theme for the most exclusive event in fashion and culture is “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” a love letter to the late, great fashion icon behind Chanel, Fendi and his own eponymous fashion house.

It’s the first time the Met Gala theme has centered around a singular designer since back in 2017, when the event’s dress code honored Comme des Garçons founder Rei Kawakubo for the exhibit “Art of the In-Between.”

Somewhat unconventionally, the past two years of exhibitions at the Anna Wintour Costume Center have been a multi-chapter examination of the development and history of U.S. fashion with 2021’s “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” and 2022’s “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.”

Each year, the Met Gala gives the brightest stars a chance to shine on the museum’s red carpet in looks that have ranged from iconically campy (see Lady Gaga’s grand entrance in four separate looks for 2019’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion”) and positively reverential (2018’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”) to all things avant garde and haute couture (basically every time Rihanna shuts down the carpet — most memorably in the hand-constructed yellow gown she wore for 2015’s “China: Through the Looking Glass”).

Dua Lipa, Roger Federer, Michaela Coel and Penelope Cruz will serve as this year’s co-hosts, while other reliable mainstays on the Met Gala carpet in recent years include Blake Lively, Jared Leto, Cardi B, Harry Styles and Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra.

Click through Billboard’s gallery of some of the best Met Gala looks over the years below.