Non the edition that will go down in history for the prevalence of black and white dresses, on the red carpet of the Met Gala 2023 the presence of Donatella Versace. One of the very few stars to show off the colorful dress, in pastel pink to celebrate her birthday at the stroke of midnight.
Met Gala 2023: Donatella Versace celebrates in Barbiecore style
The great annual charity event to support the Metropolitan Museum of New York is staged on May 1st, precisely on the evening in which Donatella Versace, at the end of midnight, he celebrates his 68th birthday. In pink literally head to toethe sister of Gianni Versace celebrate with a sparkling couture dress from her house.
New York, May 1, 2023. Donatella Versace at the “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty” themed event. (Photo by Cindy Ord/MG23/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
The bustier top is in satin and transparent tulle studded with pearls and crystals of various sizes, which intensify in the neckline area alternating with small ones fabric flowers. The skirt is a studded solid fabric column rhinestones and sequins, with the hem on the floor that leaves just a glimpse of the shoes with vertiginous plateau. The entire outfit is declined in pastel pink, the trendiest shade in the year of release of the movie “Barbie” with Margot Robbie. But it’s also a heartfelt tribute to his friend’s creative genius Karl Lagerfeld.
«I am very happy that Karl is being celebrated at the Met Museum»wrote the Calabrian-born designer in an Instagram post, «he was a great innovator, a creative visionary and a true friend to me and Gianni».
The haute couture dresses of past Met Balls
For the Italian designer, celebrating her birthday at the most coveted event in the fashion system is now a real ritual. In the past she has trodden the red carpet of the Met Museum several times, competing for the scene with the many celebs who wore her designer clothes. In 2022, on the wave of the theme Gilded Glamourchose a flared dress with train And cut out details. A masterpiece of contemporary high fashion, in which arabesques of frayed denim alternate with precious inserts of lamé and golden embroidery.
From left, the looks from the Met Gala 2022, 2021, 2018 and 2017.
In 2021, for the theme In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion, recalled the most iconic moments in American fashion history by wearing one of her most iconic looks. A bondage dress total white with gold pins and studs fished out of the 1992 wardrobe.
Baroque embroideries and gold metal mesh
In 2018, following the dress code of the evening Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the focus is all on the boots. THE Versace Boots wedges and above the knee are in the navy blue shade of the skirt moire fabric. And they are embellished with the same baroque embroideries of the mini-dress in see-through fabric.
One meter sixty-five tall, the designer is a true expert in the art of enhancing hers petite physique and its unmistakable platinum hair dye. In his collection of “Met clothes” could not therefore be missing a total gold looklike that of the 2017 themed edition Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons. Combined with the hair with fluo yellow locks, the dress in metal mesh with mirror effect is a model one shoulder with mega gap and matching platform sandals. She asks her followers: «What do you guys think?».
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