The Wet Gala: Why so many celebs were moist and nearly naked at the Met on fashion’s biggest night

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Wet — Gala. On the first Monday in May, Hollywood favorites turned out in droves to ascend the museum’s iconic staircase, this year making a splash on the carpet with avant garde wet looks — and a bit of nudity.“Everyone looks wet,” content creator Mandy Lee said in a TikTok video while reviewing looks from the evening. “There’s so much wet and damp and moisture at this Met Gala.”The liquidy seemed to pay homage to the dress code, “Garden of Time” — Vogue’s Anna Wintour, who helms the Met Gala, previously apologized for it’s vagueness — with ensembles that looked to the earth, sea and air for inspiration.Most notably, Doja Cat in Vetements, complete with dripping eye makeup, created her see-through, sopping white tee with a mixture of water and hair gel, which she revealed feels “horrible” when cold when speaking with Vogue’s carpet co-host Emma Chamberlain.Then, there was a sea of sequins — like Kaia Gerber in Prada or Janelle Monáe in Vera Wang — akin to fish scales, and Kylie Mingoue’s sparkling custom Diesel look that created an illusion of damp, stuck-to-skin fabric.Where A-listers lacked moist, clinging garments, they made up for in hydro-hair, creating the mirage of having just stepped out of the shower or sea.Sarah Paulson, a coquette vision in a bow-studded pink Prada frock, and Rebecca Hall, wearing Danielle Frankel, opted for slicked-back bobs, and the short ‘dos on Rita Ora and Iris Law clung to their foreheads with gel.

Tyla, making her Met Gala debut in a Balmain sand dress, also arrived with wet-looking tresses, while Amelia Gray Hamlin’s locks were plastered to her head and stuck to her décolletage, accompanying her Undercover couture dress.If celebs weren’t wet, they were nude — in more ways than.