The model Kendall Jenner surprised in the Met Gala 2024 when wearing an archive dress Givenchy designed by Alexander McQueen in 1999thus becoming the first person to wear this iconic piece.
The dress, made with black and nude tulle and adorned with more than 100,000 beads and sequins hand-embroidered for 500 hourscaptured attention on the green carpet installed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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As picked up by Vogue, Jenner, the dress has been “sleeping for the last 25 years. She is literally a sleeping beauty.” And precisely this year the theme of the Met Gala is “Sleeping Beauties: Fashion Awakening”, exhibition that seeks to highlight those garments so delicate that they are only worthy of museums.
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Dani Michelle, Jenner’s stylist, revealed: “We did a lot of research, specifically on the work of the talented and remembered Alexander McQueen, and Kendall and I fell in love with this dress. Surprisingly, they had it.”
Collection was designed by Alexander McQueen. (Photo by Giovanni Giannoni/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images) / WWD
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The dress was presented on the catwalk, but on a mannequin, not on a model, and kept in the Givenchy archives, it is a true work of art with distinctive cutouts at the waist and sculptural details at the neck and shoulders.
Kendall Jenner dress for the 2024 Met Gala by Givenchy (Vogue US)
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The choice of the vintage dress was also inspired by this year’s Met Gala theme, “The Garden of Time,” which Jenner interpreted as an opportunity to immerse herself in her love of vintage and wear clothes with meaningful stories.
