At the 2022 Met Gala, there were a lot of top-secret details going about. With her Versace-designed gown, Blake Lively paid homage to the Statue of Liberty; Kim K wore one of Marilyn Monroe’s most iconic gowns for the event, and Riz Ahmed paid homage to the garb of immigrant workers during the Gilded Age. However, there was another subtly mentioned moment on the red carpet that you’d miss if you blinked. Emma Stone walked the Met Gala red carpet in an upcycled outfit, re-wearing her wedding afterparty gown.
When Stone married Dave McCary, a writer, and comedian, in September 2020, she wore this dress as an afterparty look. Stone and McCary met in 2016 while Stone was hosting Saturday Night Live and McCary directed one of her routines (the amusing “Wells for Boys”). In 2019, the couple got engaged. Despite the fact that their wedding had to be postponed owing to lockdowns, Louis Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquière produced this unique garment for the actor’s wedding afterparty (she had a different gown for the actual ceremony). It’s the only one of Stone’s wedding outfits that fans have seen so far.
Sequins and feathers adorned the bottom of her white dress, which had a flapper-style fit. There were incredibly tiny buttons on both sides, bringing a vintage touch to the wedding feel. It was not only a great fun wedding look, but it was also quite appropriate for the theme, even if it was a few decades after the Gilded Age. (The Gilded Age came to an end in the late 1890s, and Stone’s appearance shouts Roaring ’20s.) It did, however, hit another, unstated subject at the Met Gala stairwell.
Louis Vuitton dressed all of their Met Gala ambassadors in archival and previously worn designs, according to the brand’s Instagram, and it wasn’t the only one. The Met Gala in 2022 included a variety of environmentally friendly fashion choices. Camila Cabello’s Moschino ensemble, like Billie Eilish’s Gucci dress, was fashioned completely of repurposed fabrics. Venus Williams jumped on board the sustainability bandwagon with a Chloé look fashioned entirely of the brand’s pre-existing stock, requiring no additional resources.
Clearly, there are a variety of ways to bring sustainable fashion to red carpets; all I ask is that we see a lot more of it – as well as more repurposed wedding gowns.