Met Gala legends: The most iconic looks from 1985 to today

The Met Gala is just two weeks away and all fashion fans are eagerly waiting for the inspiring looks of the guests of this great event to walk and be photographed on this famous red carpet. Yes, it isthe most important fashion event in the world and the most important red carpet anyone will step on.

The Met Gala takes place on May 6 and marks the start of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion show, which this year is titled Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth, Bad Bunny and Anna Wintour will be the co-chairs of the evening, so we expect extra effort from them in terms of their look.

But while we wait for the lights to flash on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet, let’s see which looks made history, which excited and which shocked from the Met Gala of 1985 until 2023. Take a look at the list below and let the memories flood you.

1. Rihanna in 2023 on: Karl Lagerfeld – A Line of Beauty

2. Jizdi Hadid in 2022 with In America – An Anthology of Fashion

3. Cara Delevingne in 2021 with the theme: In America – A Lexicon of Fashion

4. Zoe Kravitz in 2021 with In America – A Lexicon of Fashion

5. Lady Gaga in 2019 with: Camp – Notes on Fashion

6. Billy Porter in 2019 on: Camp – Notes on Fashion

7. Kim Kardashian in 2019 with: Camp – Notes on Fashion

8. Blake Lively in 2018 on: Heavenly Bodies – Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

9. Rihanna in 2015 with: China – Through the Looking Glass

10. Sarah Jessica Parker in 2014 in: Charles James – Beyond Fashion

11. Florence Wells in 2012 on: Schiaparelli and Prada – Impossible Conversations

12. Kate Moss in 2009 on The Model As Muse – Embodying Fashion

13. Sarah Jessica Parker in 2006 on: AngloMania -Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion

14. Naomi Campbell in 1995 on Haute Couture

15. Cher in 1985 on: Costumes of Royal India