Gigi Hadid Breaks Standards With A Gold Chunked Dress At MET Gala

Hadid showed out on the blue daffodil carpet in a golden, sequinned custom Miu Miu gown and channeled her inner pin-up girl with her iconic golden hair styled up in a Victory Roll hairstyle, courtesy of stylist Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, according to George V Magazine.

The model paired the look with silver drop earrings and silver rings. She told the outlet that the look was inspired by the work of Zelda Wynn Valdes, a Black American designer who helped transform the style of the female silhouette over the years.

“[Gabriella] thought of so many ways to interpret this theme,” Hadid shared. “The dress is a celebration of Zelda. This is a dress, maybe she would have designed for me, combining both tailoring and glamour.”

George V Magazine announced Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and Anna Wintour would be co-chairs for this year’s Met Gala last October, alongside LeBron James as honorary chair. The event, which is held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is a fundraiser for The Costume Institute and spotlights the museum’s spring 2025 exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, which is the theme for the gala.

Curator in Charge Andrew Bolton shared that the exhibit, which is inspired by guest curator Monica L. Miller’s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, explores “the Black dandy as both a concept and an identity signifier.”

The exhibit “presents a cultural and historical examination of Black style from the 18th century to the present through an exploration of the concept of dandyism,” according to a post on the museum’s Instagram.

The Met Gala’s dress code for this year is “Tailored for You,” a nod to the exhibition’s focus on menswear and suiting. The gala also has a star-studded host committee: Simone Biles and her husband, Jonathan Owens, as well as Doechii, Regina King, Spike Lee, Angel Reese and Usher.

Hadid’s look marks a decade of outfits from the supermodel, who made her debut at the Met Gala in 2015, when she wore a stunning red Diane von Furstenberg gown that featured a high slit. Her styling has come a long way in the decade since, as she has been known to often go for the unexpected.

She followed up the aforementioned look with a coordinated metallic-accented ensemble with her then-boyfriend Zayn Malik, with whom she shares daughter Khai, paying tribute to the theme Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology in 2016. While solo at the Met Gala the following year, she took on a more angelic look with a Versace gown that resembled stained glass windows.

Hadid then experimented with different aesthetics over the next few years, including decking herself in sequins from head to toe for her extravagant Michael Kors Collection ensemble in 2019, which came complete with a silver jumpsuit, cape, boots and a headpiece. 

The model also dyed her hair red in 2021, drawing comparisons to a real-life Jessica Rabbit, to top off her strapless Prada gown that had a back slit that showed off her bedazzled tights. The next year, she repeated the red motif in her extravagant Atelier Versace outfit, which featured deep red patent latex pants attached to pointed-toe boots and a matching corset and a floor-length bubble puffer coat featuring enormous sleeves.

Last year, Hadid took on a more classical look for the “Garden of Time” theme, wearing a white off-the-shoulder Thom Browne gown featuring rose detailing that cascaded down the lower half of her dress. The train featured yellow appliqués and even a quirky detail in that it was in the shape of a tuxedo jacket — sleeves and all.

According to Vogue, the dress took more than 70 people and over 13,500 hours to make by hand. It’s also a once-in-a-lifetime ensemble, as it was entered in Browne’s permanent archive following the Met Gala, according to the outlet.

“I’m just honored to show their work, and I think that’s the point of the Met [Gala],” Hadid shared in an interview with Vogue. “It’s a night where we’re not putting on dresses that have been made by a designer to sell. [The gowns are] really made to celebrate creativity together.”