“My favourite Met memory ever, it’s quite hard to pick one because I think I’ve been 10 or 11 times,” Chloë Sevigny tells Vogue. “I think it might’ve been the last time I went wearing Simone Rocha being interviewed by the late, great André Leon Talley on the carpet and just being very nervous and then seeing him and kind of feeling his seal of approval and his energy and passion towards me,” she says. “I just took his energy and went forth with it the whole night. And so that was a very special memory for me.” As she returns to the 2024 Met Gala carpet for the museum’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, it’s a night to reflect and look toward the future. Fittingly, Sevigny arrives with a historical take on this year’s official dress code, “The Garden of Time”.
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She’s refreshingly candid about her interpretation of the theme so far: “Honestly, I’m still a little confused by the theme, but I am interpreting it in my own way, I think it’s something of a rebirth, a decay.” On top of repurposing Victorian fabrics for her gown, “we’re incorporating a lot of hair and an homage to the Victorians, and in the Victorian era, how they celebrated their loved ones who passed away by making ornaments and jewellery out of their dead or their loved one’s hair”. Her own blonde lengths braided into intricate loops, it plays into her favourite “Victorian mourning hair” aspect of tonight’s beauty as well. “I love working with Mustafa,” she says of hair artist Mustafa Yanaz who teased blonde strands in his Instagram stories delicately braided into flowers, bows, and even a cursive “Chloë” spelled out in golden loops, which he started working on last week and credits Bumble and Bumble Hairdresser’s Invisible Oil as an important helper. “The hair was definitely inspired by the dress itself,” Mustafa says. “Many of the hairstyles tonight are very simple and I’m so happy we went for a look that really added to the overall effect.”
Together, they dared to dream and connect the dots of the theme with an artistic interpretation of Victorian tokens. “I got really inspired by Victorian, floral, highly detailed paintings,” Mustafa says. “The Victorian women with braids. We wanted to play up the detail and create something really intricate and beautiful like those paintings.”
“He always makes me feel so beautiful and I feel very safe in his hands,” says Sevigny, praising his capabilities. “He has great taste and is very ‘cool’ as well, and makes me look my best.” And while she likes “ornamental hair”, she’s aware that it’s a moment that potentially “can go wrong really easily”. Not tonight, though. “This is just right.”
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