“You know what, I have never been with such a group of brilliantly bonded women,” Vanessa Kirby tells me over the phone on the morning after the 2023 Met Gala, where she and the rest of the fashion Whos paid tribute to Karl Lagerfeld via the love language of sartorial peacocking. Along with Olivia Wilde and Maude Apatow, Kirby attended the event with designer Gabriela Hearst, which The Crown actor says made for quite the cozy evening.
“It can be quite daunting, those events,” Kirby explains. “We were a total team—we had drinks in Gabriela’s room before we left, and then we all got in the car together, and we didn’t really leave each other all night.”
By Alyssa Greenberg.
Another advantage of joining the House of Hearst on fashion’s biggest night: access to vintage Chloé, including the iconic “shower dress,” reportedly once touted as Lagerfeld’s most outstanding creation; the one Kirby wore to the gala is an original from the house’s 1983-84 fall collection.
“Unbelievably, they had it as one of their archive pieces that was actually in the museum when we walked around,” she says. “It felt incredible to wear a proper museum piece—really very special, and I suppose it was truly what the evening was about.” To complement the painstakingly hand-embroidered showerhead motif on the back, Kirby and her team finished the look with simple (albeit Christian Louboutin) silver sandals and a Cartier bracelet: “We just wanted to keep it clean and simple, not fussy.”
Overall, Kirby says, she found the evening dedicated to the late fashion titan deeply moving. “You saw the canon of his whole work, and you had him very much in mind,” adds the actor, who’s heading out on the promotion circuit soon for the upcoming (seventh!) installment of Mission: Impossible. “I know that everybody said it just felt very soulful.”
By Alyssa Greenberg.
Stylist: Ryan Hastings
Hair: Jenny Cho
Makeup: Jo Baker
Colorist: John MacPherson
Nails: Lolly Koon
Delia Cai
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