Starting in early March, following announcements that major cultural events and destinations, including the Louvre, Coachella, Broadway, and more relevantly, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, were closing up shop in an effort to halt the spread of COVID-19, rumors about whether or not the Costume Institute’s annual benefit would take place on the first Monday in May began to spread. At first, the overwhelming response was that the show must go on. But after much speculation, Vogue gave the final word: The 2020 Met Gala had been canceled.
But preparatory measures for most of the night’s guest list were already well underway. After all, Rihanna’s canary yellow Guo Pei cape — the one with the fur trim and stunning embroidery — from the 2015 Met Gala took two years to construct. “[What] I want is to make them remember,” Pei told The Cut of the look. Hint: They have. Rihanna’s dress titled Magnificent Gold was later put on display at that year’s “China Through the Looking Glass” Costume Institute exhibition. In total, it took 50,000 hours to create.
Rihanna is hardly the only A-lister whose Met Gala ensemble involved its fair share of planning.
In a fitting that aired on Keeping Up With The Kardashians, Kim Kardashian West can be seen doing the most to prepare for the 2019 Camp-themed Met Gala, where she wore a figure-hugging dress designed by Thierry Mugler. “I used to dream about this night,” she said, eyes glittering. For the look, she had a corset made by fashion’s more revered corset-maker Mr. Pearl, one that made her waist look almost unnaturally small. But the theme was camp, so that was sort of the point.
The same level of time and money — not to mention blood, sweat, and tears — was being spent on this year’s Met Gala theme, that is, until it was canceled. Katy Perry is proof of that. The singer, who has been known to go the extra mile for the Met Gala, shared details of the dress she’d planned on wearing on the first Monday in May — and it was Madonna-themed.
In an Instagram post captioned, “what would have been… #TheMetBall2020,” Perry reveals a Jean Paul Gaultier bustier, featuring a cone-shaped bra not unlike Madonna’s from the 1990 Blond Ambition Tour. Madonna’s original design was also designed by Gaultier.
A number of her fellow invitees also took to Instagram to share details about the looks they would have sported, if the show, did, in fact, go on.
Click ahead to see what your favorite celebrities were planning on wearing to last night’s Met Gala.
Katy Perry
Perry’s Madonna-inspired cone bustier was designed by none other than Jean Paul Gaultier, the same designer who created the bra that inspired it.
Julia Roberts
Roberts, with a glass of wine in hand, posed in her NYC bathroom in an exuberant black and white ball gown for her Instagram.
Amanda Seyfriend
Like Roberts, actress Amanda Seyfriend is at home — just not in NYC, from the looks of it. For her Met Gala reveal, she can be seen wearing a #throwback look prairie-style quilted dress styled by Sasha O’Neill. Oh, and her date was to be her pet chicken, Candace.
Chloe Grace Moretz
Chloe Grace Moretz may not have revealed an actual image of her 2020 Met Gala look, but she did announce who would’ve designed it: Louis Vuitton’s creative director and 2020 Met Gala co-chair Nicolas Ghesquiere.
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