Best Met Gala looks from the 2024 red carpet

The Met Gala theme is always up for a lot of interpretation, and this year really left things to the celebrity imagination: While the Met celebrated its new exhibit “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” the evening’s theme-slash-dress code was “The Garden of Time,” inspired by a 1962 J.G. Ballard story. This meant tons florals, of course (seriously, so many florals, and yes, we have heard all your jokes about how that’s “groundbreaking”), along with the many other ways that the stars and their designers decided to celebrate “rebirth and renewal, using nature as a metaphor for the impermanence of fashion.”