Lil Nas X Showed Up to the Met Gala in Nothing But a Steel Thong, Silver Body Paint, and Jewels

Leave it to Lil Nas X to dominate the carpeted steps at the 2023 Met Gala.

Tonight, the Grammy a success-musician seemed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art wearing nothing but a metal thong, sparkling silver body paint, and rather a lot of bejeweled crystals and pearls (which lined literally all the issues from his head to his toes). He took it to the subsequent level with a matching bejeweled appreciate disguise and beauty care.

The rapper has lengthy been known for breaking boundaries with his inimitable sense of model.

When he final attended the Met Gala in 2021, Nas showed up in an extravagant three-in-one watch designed by Donatella Versace. First, he seemed on the steps engulfed in a dramatic regal cape. He then shed the outerwear to direct a glistening golden suit of armor. Under the armor, Nas wore a clingy bodysuit fully bedazzled with sparkling gold sequins.

This yr’s Gala’s theme, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Class,” will pay homage to the life and legacy of the gradual Chanel ingenious director.

The Costume Institute describes the spring 2023 exhibition as an exploration of “the work of Karl Lagerfeld. Focusing on the dressmaker’s stylistic vocabulary as expressed in just subject matters that seem over and every other time in his fashions from the Fifties to his closing sequence in 2019, the direct will spotlight the German-born dressmaker’s uncommon working methodology.”

The exhibition will additionally showcase about 150 of Lagerfeld’s designs, besides to a few of his sketches, both of which “underscore his advanced ingenious route of and the collaborative relationships with his premières, or head seamstresses. Lagerfeld’s fluid strains united his designs for Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel, and his eponymous label, Karl Lagerfeld, creating a various and prolific body of labor unparalleled within the history of model.”