Met Gala red carpet: Lady Gaga strips, Jared Leto sees double and Katy Perry lights up the room
- It’s the fashion event of the year, where some of the world’s biggest celebrities embraced the over-the-top theme for the fundraising ball
- Stars pushed the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute gala camp theme to the limit
Jared Leto was accompanied at the Met Gala on Monday by his own (fake) head, Katy Perry was a candled chandelier, Lady Gaga used the pink carpet as a runway and a changing station and Tiffany Haddish brought fried chicken in a plastic bag as many of the A-list guests worked the camp theme to the max.
Perry appeared concerned her heavy looking headpiece would topple as she smiled and walked precariously up the stairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Bella Hadid dished that Perry “had to be trucked here in a UPS truck”.
Leto wore a red kaftan with jewel loops, cradling his long-haired macabre version of himself, and Tracee Ellis Ross posed inside a gold picture frame attached to the front of her black dress.
Regina King, in a copper sequin gown with a large shoulder embellishment, said she wasn’t ready to go full camp, so she stuck to high lacquered hair.
“So, glamour is camp,” the Oscar-winner said. “Maybe next year the comfort level will have expanded.”
The 71st annual gala hit a campy high point early with Lady Gaga working the pink carpet to its fullest in long golden eyelashes and a huge fuchsia dress, peeling off layer after layer until she was down to a bra, panties and fishnet stockings.