Associated Press
NEW YORK — The Met Gala and its fashionista A-listers on Monday included Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya and a parade of others in a swirl of flora and fauna looks on a green-tinged carpet lined by live foliage.
Lily Gladstone, who is Siksikaitsitapii and Nimíipuu, went for black by Gabriela Hearst.
“We wanted me to feel draped in the power of my ancestors,” she said. “For Kiowa and Blackfeet, our ancestors are the stars, that’s where we come from. … I feel like it’s so long overdue that we have so much Indigenous representation and this sort of upper echelon world of high luxury fashion, because that is our aesthetic, you know, Natives have always loved luxury.”
Brooke Bobb, fashion news director for Harper’s Bazaar, saw a multitude of meanings in all of the evening’s black and florals.
“There was a lot of black, perhaps a gothic ode to the `Sleeping Beauties’ title of the actual exhibition but also maybe an accidental nod to the fact that in this chaotic world we’re living in right now, not everything, not even fabulous, prime-time televised fashion, is coming up roses,” she said.
Flowers were everywhere, in line with this year’s theme: “The Garden of Time,” inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same name.
Quannah Chasinghorse, Han Gwich’in and Sicangu/Oglala Lakota, dazzled.
