Gwyneth Paltrow isn’t treating the Met Gala like a costume party.
The Goop founder looked back at some of her all-time favorite red carpet looks, took a few turns on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and brushed off her negative feelings about the event (I have a love-hate relationship with the Met Ball, which is well-documented), she wrote.
“I would never go to the Met Ball wearing a hot dog costume or anything, you know?” she said. “First and foremost, I always have to be myself. For example, I don’t go in a costume, I go in a dress.”
“There are two camps of people who go to the Met Ball: they wear a costume or they wear an evening dress. And I’m always an evening dress person,” she explained.
Widely known as the “Oscars of Fashion,” the exhibition’s theme determines the evening’s dress code, with leading artists interpreting the theme.
In 2019, Katy Perry performed “Notes on Camp” dressed up as a chandelier and later a hamburger. For the 2023 red carpet celebrating the life and work of Karl Lagerfeld, Doja Cat transformed into the late designer’s cat, Choupette, with the help of a prosthetic leg.
Paltrow stepped out in Valley of the Dolls in 2019 wearing a yellow Chloé dress that she called “like a lemon chiffon pie.”
And she recalled that her favorite look to date was a high-low Prada halter-neck look she wore in 2012, and that minis were meant to be worn with skirts, which she eschewed that night.
Her 2012 outfit is her favorite red carpet moment, but she probably didn’t enjoy the event as much. In 2013, she told USA Today of the event, “It wasn’t very fun. It was boiling. It was too crowded. I didn’t enjoy it at all.”
However, the “Marty Supreme” star returned four years later.
Paltrow isn’t alone in publicly speaking out about her disdain for the event, with Amy Schumer, Demi Lovato and others sharing their disappointment.
However, I can’t seem to quit the event. Lena Dunham, who wrote in 2016 that “it was like a crazy countdown to when I would get out,” is also serving on the Met Gala host committee this year.
We look forward to seeing Paltrow on the first Monday of May.
