The Best Looks From the 2024 Met Gala Red Carpet

And which star had a costume change mid-carpet.

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It’s the first Monday in May, so you know what that means: Fashion’s biggest night has arrived. Scores of stars hit the Met Gala red carpet, ready to strut their stuff. This year’s dress code for the high-profile event was “The Garden of Time,” to complement the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” The exhibit, on display May 10-September 24, “will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion and a vehicle to examine the cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal,” according to the Met’s website, and feature approximately 250 garments an accessories — many of which are typically never displayed since they’re very fragile.

As implied by the dress code, many A-listers donned bold floral designs — and even though Miranda Priestly would not have been impressed with florals for spring, we have to say that many of these looks were, in fact, groundbreaking. Here are some of our favorite ensembles from the 2024 Met Gala.

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Serena Williams Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Serena Williams stuns in a shiny gold one-shoulder Grecian inspired gown with a cape and long train.

Zendaya Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Kim Kardashian Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Kim Kardashian wears a silver corset with metal flowers making up the skirt, and a gray shrug over it.

Kendall Jenner Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Kendall Jenner wears a black vampy gown with a deep V and a mesh V cutout above the hips.

Gigi Hadid Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Gigi Hadid wears a bold red lip and her hair in pin curls, plus a white off-the-shoulder gown with yellow flowers and black trim.

Lea Michele Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Lea Michele shows off her baby bump on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet, in a flowy turquoise dress with a dramatic train and daisys along the neckline.

JLo Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

J.Lo wears a see-through sparkly beaded gown with a peacock-like pattern.

Mindy Kaling Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Mindy Kaling wears a beige dress with an ethereal over-the-head shoulder piece that matches the elegant draping of her gown.

Ayo Edebiri Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Ayo Edebiri wears a dress with floral appliques and a high neck. From the top it's white, towards the bottom the flowers are vibrant and multicolored.

Andy Cohen and Sarah Jessica Parker Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Andy Cohen wears a black tux. Sarah Jessica Parker wears an elaborately embroidered cream tea-length gown with a matching fascinator that covers one of her eyes.

Anna Wintour Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Anna Wintour wears a white gown with a long black tuxedo jacket over it, adorned with red and yellow tulips.

Greta Lee Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Dan Levy Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Dan Levy wears a flowy shirt and pants that are black at the top and fade into a multicolored floral pattern at the bottom.

Ben Simmons Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Ben Simmons wears a long tweed coat with a red, green, and white and yellow pattern. He holds a briefcase with a clock whose face is set to 4:30.

Rita Ora and Taika Waititi Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Rita Ora wears a multicolored beaded gown draped around her neck — and nothing else. Taika Waititi is in a brown leather suit jacket, pants, shirt, and tie.

Gayle King Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Gayle King wears a lime green one-shoulder dress with a voluminous high-low skirt and a ruffled shoulder detail.

Kyle Ramar Freeman and J. Harrison Ghee Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Kyle Ramar Freeman wears a pale pink cape with a large collar and bedazzled eyebrows, and J. Harrison Ghee wears a turquoise and pink dress with diamante detail and a Maleficent-style gold headdress

Aya Nakamura Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Aya Nakamura has white blonde hair and eyebrows, and a fitted strapless jewel-encrusted silver dressed adorned with bejeweled roses

Kris Jenner Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Kris wears a white dress with long sleeves and a white cape with a collar shaped like leaves.

Michelle Yeoh Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Michelle Yeoh wears a strapless silver ball gown with the texture of scrunched tinfoil

Anok Yai Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Anok Yai wears a sheer bodysuit covered in diamante in shades of dark blue to replicate the night sky

Demi Lovato Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrivals

Demi Lovato wears a strapless silver dress with a structured neckline and delicate metallic flowers trailing down one side, merging into a flowery train

Chloë Sevigny Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Chloë Sevigny wears a distressed Cinderalla-style cream dress torn at the front to reveal a pale pink bodice.

Demi Moore Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Demi wears a black dress with a pale pink rose design and an exaggerated structured hip, with a stiff heart-shaped cape trimmed with black arrows.

Amanda Seyfried Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Amanda wears a sleeveless silver dress adorned with metallic silver and pink flowers and a silver imperial-style leaf headdress revealing hair sprayed into silver curls.

Phoebe Dynevor and Charlotte Tilbury Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Phoebe Dynevor (R) wears a sheer pale pink tulle dress with embroidered flower detail, while Charlotte Tilbury wears a sheer corseted black dress with gold edging.

Adwoa Aboah, Paloma Elsesser, and Usher Met Gala 2024 red carpet arrival

Adwoa Aboah wears a red ruffled collar over her shoulders revealing a diamante red bra underneath, with a bare belly and a wide red skirt. Paloma Elsesser wears a hard mottled green bodice adorned with large 3D metallic tulips and a wide cream skirt, and Usher wears a midnight blue suit with a cape, highwayman-cum-cowboy-style dark hat, and carries a plastic red rose.