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“It’s always a little bit stressful because of the amount of people,” Moore says on Zoom, as she sits in her sunny Manhattan kitchen in a white T-shirt and oversized aviator glasses. But that can be a good thing, too. “It’s the most extraordinary collection of people from across fashion and film and music and theater. And you kind of run into people you never expect to meet.”
She had just come from a fitting with Bottega Veneta, and was feeling good about her dress—mainly because she’s a big, big fan of the brand’s creative director, Louise Trotter.
“I love everything that Louise is doing. I just think she’s really cool,” Moore says. “I literally bought her shoes the last time I saw her. I was like, ‘What are those shoes?’ And I bought a pair of shoes that she was wearing because she’s cool. And I feel like women do that all the time. You see somebody, you like their style and you end up like, ‘Where’d you get that?’”
For her Met Gala 2026 look, Moore and her stylist Kate Young looked toward another of Trotter’s designs. . “A lot of the inspiration came from stuff that I’d worn of hers,” Moore says. “The dress was sort of based on something that Louise had made that I wore in a photo shoot I did for d la Repubblica magazine. And it fits so well and it looked so … there’s something so simple about the dress.”
On the cream carpet last night, Moore wore the black dress (“one where one shoulder kind of falls off”), with a sleek slick back and red lipstick. Simple indeed—but the real beauty of it, Moore describes, is the detail. “Louise did this kind of really wonderful thing where she made the inside of it like ivory.” A bit of that lining peeks out at the hem, and there’s a double top stitch that gives the dress a bit of a casual feel, Moore explains. “So you sort of see the construction of her clothes, you actually see the construction in a wonderful way. You see the stitching, you see the lining. There’s something about it that’s elevated, but also really modern, which I like and kind of speaks to, like I said, the kind of person that she is, which is that she’s detail-oriented.”
That casual, modern vibe, doesn’t always translate into practicality. “Listen, it’s never that comfortable because any occasion where there are high heels and stairs, it’s a little bit disastrous,” Moore says. “I wish I were tall enough to wear a flat and not have to worry about that, but I’m not.” (On Monday, Moore wore a Loeffler Randall platform heel.)
“You need to be able to move. You need to be able to stand there for a really long time. You need to be able to get upstairs,” she says. “Obviously that’s very important.”
Back to those unexpected Met moments. Moore reminisced about Met Galas past. “I remember one year meeting Paris Jackson, and she was such a lovely person, so kind of ebullient, like an angel,” she says. “She really surprised me. And I think I would never … our paths wouldn’t cross ordinarily, and there we were at the Met and got to meet her.” She was looking forward to sitting with her good friends Stanley Tucci and his wife Felicity, and of course, her long-time friend and collaborator Tom Ford, who would also accompany her up on the carpet. (“My table is awesome,” she says.)
But it can also be fun to get a window into other guests’ worlds. “I remember once too, sitting with Mark Ronson, and every musician in the world came over because they were all so excited that he was like, ‘Look at all these people who want to talk to you,” she recalls. “I’m like, ‘They don’t want to talk to me. I’m like, Harry Styles does not want to talk to me. Katy Perry does not want to talk to me. I think they all want to talk to you.’”
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