The Met Gala has a long history of sartorial extravagance. (Many recalled Rihanna’s 2015 Guo Pei stunner upon seeing Cardi’s ’fit.) But this year, there seemed to be a higher quotient of dresses that called for a couple of helping hands than usual.
For one: Tyla, in a column made of “sand.” The popular Instagram meme account @betches posted a video showing the singer being carried, upright, to the entrance of the Met. “I’m not high-maintenance,” the caption read. Then: “Also me,” as Tyla took not one step. Yet her look was worth the trouble—a sand-and-sediment masterpiece by Olivier Rousteing of Balmain. On the carpet, Rousteing said, “It’s made of sand, the idea being that you can only wear it once, but the memory will last forever.”
Elsewhere, Kim Kardashian needed help getting into the museum on account of her hyper-corseted Maison Margiela by John Galliano; and Camilla Cabello had to hand off her clutch—an actual block of ice frozen (and then dripping) around a single rose—to somebody else before her fingers went blue.
