Met Gala 2023: Stars gather for event celebrating Karl Lagerfeld

In the satellite of fashion, fewer events are arsenic big, Instagram-worthy and hotly in-demand arsenic the yearly Met Gala successful New York City.

The event, known for its star-studded impermanent database and extravagant outfits, is this twelvemonth themed connected the precocious manner icon Karl Lagerfeld.

The invitation-only gala besides raises wealth for the Costume Institute astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

About 400 guests were expected to beryllium successful attendance astatine this year's event.

For this year's taxable - "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" - attendees were asked to deterioration apparel "in honour of Karl".

The designer, who died successful 2019 astatine the property of 85, astir often wore acheronian sunglasses with his achromatic hairsbreadth pulled backmost into a ponytail. He was often pictured alongside his famously pampered cat, Choupette.

Retired tennis prima Roger Federer, Grammy-winning songstress Dua Lipa, histrion Penélope Cruz and writer, histrion and shaper Michaela Coel are this year's co-chairs, alongside Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Brittney Griner, the WNBA hoops prima who was jailed successful Russia, attended connected Monday nighttime alongside her wife.

Last year, the Metropolitan Museum's Great Hall was festooned with 275,000 pinkish roses. But the decorations are thing compared to the outfits that celebrities flaunt connected their mode into the event.

Much of the public's gaze, however, is connected the reddish carpet and the lavish outfits of those successful attendance - which past twelvemonth included Kim Kardashian wearing a $4.8m (£3.84m) rhinestone-studded formal erstwhile worn by Marilyn Monroe.

This year, Kardashian wore a Schiaparelli plan dripping successful pearls, which was designed aft a sojourn past week to the Karl Lagerfeld bureau successful Paris, wherever she said she was getting "a small inspiration for the Met".

"I conscionable wanted to consciousness glamourous," she told Vogue connected the reddish carpet. "I wanted pearls - what is much Karl".

Her sisters Kylie and Kendall were besides successful attendance.

Individual tickets for the lawsuit this twelvemonth are priced astatine $50,000, with tables opening astatine $300,000.

Actresses Priyanka Chopra and Elle Fanning, Brooklyn and Nicola Peltz-Beckham and vocalist Rita Ora were each successful attendance.

Rapper Lil Nas X arrived looking similar immoderate benignant of mythical creature, clad successful pearls and painted silver.

Embattled histrion Jonathan Majors was besides slated to be arsenic a impermanent of Valentino, but "mutually agreed" with the manner location not to be connected the heels of battle charges stemming from a March incident.

Another notable invitee who was not successful attendance this twelvemonth was Choupette the feline - though popular prima Doja Cat and histrion Jared Leto some dressed similar the feline.

"Many radical invited maine to locomotion the reddish carpet of the Met Gala 2023 successful tribute to Daddy, but we preferred to enactment cosy and astatine home," said a station connected the cat's authoritative Instagram page. "We wage tribute to my Daddy each time since his parting and we are precise moved to spot 1 much time dedicated to him."

The backstage lawsuit was not broadcast, but the Red Carpet was televised and livestreamed connected Vogue's societal media platforms.