Hailey Bieber and Alexa Chung Wore Wedding Dresses to the Met Gala
If you were one of the many brides-to-be who had to postpone their weddings due to COVID, let this be the one upside to delaying your big day, especially if you also held off on buying *the* dress. On the steps of tonight's Met Gala, where the biggest names in fashion come together in gowns that will be talked about for decades (no really, they will be), Hailey Bieber arrived in what can only be described as the wedding dress of our dreams. And she wasn't the only one.
For the annual event, Bieber, who wore custom Off-White to her actual wedding in 2019, chose a white, silk slip dress by Saint Laurent that was inspired by an Yves Saint Laurent gown worn by supermodel Jerry Hall on the runway at the designer's spring 2002 Haute Couture retrospective show in Paris. With the slip, both Hall and Bieber wore a feather-trimmed shawl perfectly fit for a bride in 2022.
No worries if slip dresses aren't what you had in mind for your big day, though. There were plenty of other bridal-esque ensembles at the 2022 Met Gala for you to consider, from Cynthia Erivo's sheer lace Louis Vuitton drop-waist gown to Paloma Elsesser's ivory-colored Coach bustier and sheer skirt, there was a wedding dress for every bridal aesthetic on the red carpet this year, all of which would just as easily stun at a modern-day wedding as they would way back when in the Gilded Age (maybe with a few minor tweaks).
Keep scrolling to see (and save for later) every wedding-ready Met Gala look below.
WHO: Hailey Bieber
WEAR: Saint Laurent
More wedding-ready looks at the 2022 Met Gala:
WHO: Sydney Sweeney
WEAR: Tory Burch
WHO: Paloma Elsesser
WEAR: Coach
WHO: Alexa Chung
WEAR: Christian Siriano
WHO: Kylie Jenner
WEAR: Off-White
WHO: Julianne Moore
WEAR: Tom Ford
WHO: Cynthia Erivo
WEAR: Louis Vuitton
WHO: Camila Cabello
WEAR: Prabal Gurung
WHO: Emma Stone
WEAR: Louis Vuitton
WHO: Eiza González
WEAR: Michael Kors
WHO: Miranda Kerr
Next up: Every Breathtaking Red Carpet Look From the 2022 Met Gala
Eliza Huber is a New York City–based fashion editor who specializes in trend reporting, brand discovery, and celebrity style. She joined Who What Wear in 2021 after almost four years on the fashion editorial team at Refinery29, the job she took after graduating with a marketing degree from the University of Iowa. She has since launched two monthly columns, Let's Get a Room and Ways to Wear; profiled the likes of Dakota Fanning, Diane Kruger, Katie Holmes, and Sabrina Carpenter for WWW's monthly cover features; and reported on everything from the relationship between Formula One and fashion to the top trends from fashion month, season after season. Eliza now lives on the Upper West Side and spends her free time researching F1 fashion imagery for her side Instagram accounts @thepinnacleoffashion and @f1paddockfits, running in Central Park, and scouring eBay for '90s Prada and '80s Yves Saint Laurent.
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