17 Met Gala Looks That Took "Beauty Is Pain" Wayyyy Too Far

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A batch of celebrated women clasp the saying "beauty is pain" connected the red carpet. However, a formal doesn't person to beryllium ace restrictive to beryllium beauteous — conscionable look astatine Princess Diana's 1996 Met Gala dress! In the Hulu docuseries In Vogue: The 90s, Dior decorator John Galliano said, "She'd been invited to the Met, and she would deterioration 1 of my dresses...Fast-forward to the event, and I conscionable retrieve her getting retired of the car. I couldn't judge it. She'd ripped the corset out. She didn't privation to deterioration the corset. She felt truthful liberated. She'd torn the corset out. The formal was overmuch much sensuous."

Here are 17 Met Gala looks that celebs struggled to breathe, eat, oregon determination in:

1. In 2024, Tyla wore an hourglass-inspired Balmain dress. Per Vogue, the soil was molded to a formed of her body. To get up the stairs, she needed 3 assistants — 1 to transportation her portion she stayed wholly still, and 2 to clasp her train. You tin ticker the video here.

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When she got wrong the event, Olivier Rousteing, the originative manager of Balmain, trimmed her formal to a much manageable length. You tin spot the Instagram video here.

2. At the 2018 Met Gala, Rihanna's pope-inspired Margiela look was hard to deterioration due to the fact that of its weight. She told Entertainment Tonight, "It was heavy. Every measurement was a squat. I committedness you, my butt gained from that night. I had different enactment that was a batch much simple, aforesaid Margiela, but I felt similar it was an insult to the radical who sat determination and, like, hand-beaded that full thing, to conscionable say, 'No, enactment that successful the archives.' It was truthful great, I couldn't contradict it."

3. In 2016, Kylie Jenner wore a metallic Balmain gown that near her with scratched, bleeding legs and bruised, swollen feet. Sharing pictures connected Snapchat, she added, "It was worthy it, though."

4. Then, successful 2017, Kylie wore a Versace gown. On an occurrence of Life of Kylie, she tried the formal connected for the archetypal clip and said it needed to beryllium choky capable for her to "kind of suffocate."

And here's a afloat look astatine her outfit:

5. At the 2018 Met Gala, Zendaya wore a cumbersome Joan of Arc-inspired look. She told Vogue, "The time before, going there, putting it on, I was like, 'Wow.' It was truthful dense 'cause of the beading, but it was truthful beautifully constructed, and it's Versace. And typically, like, I tin grip a nighttime out, you know, with my heels and everything. I've been wearing heels for a agelong time, but I don't know. It was thing astir a substance of, like, wearing these platforms and, like, the heaviness of my dress. I was struggling. I was like, 'I request to beryllium down.' But it was each worthy it."

6. In 2018, Bella Hadid accessorized her Chrome Hearts gown with a 10-pound veil. On her Instagram story, she said, "If anyone was wondering wherefore I couldn't move, it's due to the fact that a fable by the sanction of @jenatkinhair sewed a full full 10-pound veil to my head."

7. In 2011, Beyoncé wore a Emilio Pucci mermaid gown. She seemingly struggled to walk, and her husband, Jay Z, and her stylist, Ty Hunter, helped her locomotion up the celebrated staircase.

Here's a afloat look astatine her dress:

8. At the 2024 Met Gala, Elle Fanning wore a Balmain gown with sculptural birds connected the shoulders. However, per the Washington Post, the formal was a situation to locomotion in, and to get up the stairs, she had to side-step portion holding hands with 2 assistants. You tin spot the video here.

9. At the 2023 Met Gala, Chloe Fineman wore a Wiederhoeft gown. She told Vogue, "The archetypal fitting was hilarious. It was Ana de Armas's week connected SNL. We had conscionable finished our array work that Wednesday, and Jackson [Wiederhoeft, the designer] came to bash a fitting astatine 30 Rock successful the SNL costume department. I was like, 'I anticipation they prime the American Girl doll sketch!' I was truthful distracted. And past helium squeezed maine into a corset, and I couldn't breathe." She besides said her hosting duties influenced the design. She said, "The corseting is wherefore I fell successful emotion with him, but it can't beryllium excessively tight, because, you know, I don't privation to autumn over."

10. In a since-deleted Instagram post, Priyanka Chopra Jonas said, "My 2nd Met Gala outfit [in 2018] was this blood-red Ralph Lauren beauteous outfit with the golden hood. But the corset nether that thing, I couldn't breathe. I felt similar it reshaped my ribs. So hard to beryllium during meal and I evidently couldn't devour excessively overmuch during that night."

11. In 2021, Hailey Bieber wore a strapless Saint Laurent gown that was truthful choky she wasn't allowed to beryllium down successful it. On The Ellen DeGeneres Show, she said, "So, the happening astir the formal was, I americium really, like, OCD and brainsick astir the mode things fit. Like, I americium always, like, pinching things, like, 'It tin spell successful here.' So we were kinda tailoring it to, like, the precise past time successful the precise past second. And my full squad was like, 'You cannot beryllium or, like, determination successful a weird mode until you get inside.' They're like, 'If you rip the formal inside, that's fine. But if you rip it before, determination is, like, thing we tin do.'...I was capable to beryllium inside, but it was precise fitted."

12. In 2022, Kendalll Jenner wore a two-piece Prada outfit that was truthful heavy, she needed assistance getting into her van. On an occurrence of The Kardashians, she shared that she besides had a panic onslaught connected the thrust to the gala.

13. When Anya Taylor-Joy wore a weighty Dolce & Gabbana gown to the 2018 Met Gala, Jimmy Fallon "saved [her] life." On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, she told the host, "I was wearing a formal that was ridiculously heavy, and I couldn't truly move, and I was conscionable benignant of trying to get done the evening. And astatine the extremity of the night, I'm astatine the apical of the stairs. The gorgeous Hailee Steinfeld walks past me, has a precise complicated, like, three-train thing, and I get wrapped up successful it. And I'm like, 'Oh, I'm gonna die. I'm gonna dice connected the steps of the Met, darling.' But literally, conscionable retired of nowhere, the 'hand of God' came retired and pulled maine retired of it, and it was you. And you were conscionable truthful saccharine astir it. You were like, 'Hey, I'm Jimmy. Nice to conscionable you.' I was like, 'Okay, convey you.'"

14. At the 2019 Met Gala, Kim Kardashian a bedewed look Mugler outfit that consisted of a corset made by Mr. Pearl beneath silicone-covered silk organza. On Instagram, she shared that she had to instrumentality "corset breathing lessons from nary different than Mr. Pearl." She besides told the Wall Street Journal, "I person ne'er felt symptom similar that successful my life. I'll person to amusement you pictures of the aftermath erstwhile I took it disconnected — the indentations connected my backmost and my stomach."

15. Then successful 2021, Kim's Balenciaga outfit obscured her head-to-toe. On The Ellen DeGeneres Show, her mom, Kris Jenner, said, "The full evening of the Met Ball, Kim couldn't see, and she couldn't breathe, truthful my fellow Corey [Gamble] was walking around, we were each together, and helium was starring her to wherever we were expected to go, and helping with her ponytail. It was abruptly helium was like, you know, idiosyncratic pulling her astir and a hairstylist each astatine the aforesaid time."

16. In 2022, Kim Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe's celebrated "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" dress. In bid for it to acceptable without alterations, Kim did a dangerous clang diet, which progressive adding nutrient backmost to her typically plant-based menu. One of the broadside effects was a achy psoriasis flareup. She told Allure, "Psoriasis broke retired implicit my body, and I got psoriatic arthritis, truthful I couldn't truly determination my hands. It was truly painful, and I had to spell to a rheumatologist who enactment maine connected a steroid. I was freaking out. I chopped retired the nutrient again, and it's calmed down."

17. And finally, astatine the 2024 Met Gala, Kim Kardashian wore a customized Margiela by John Galliano gown with a metallic corset. In a Season 6 occurrence of The Kardashians, she said, "I've ne'er felt this mode before, wherever I consciousness similar I can't breathe. I tin grip it for truthful long, but it's like, I person to pee, I can't breathe…I virtually was dying...I'm virtually gonna propulsion up. I've ne'er been much uncomfortable...I've ne'er been successful this overmuch symptom before. I was gonna sneak retired close earlier the dinner, but past I walked by [Anna Wintour's] table, and Anna goes, 'Perfect, you're here. Can you beryllium successful my spot portion I spell marque my rounds?'"

Here's what her backmost looked similar erstwhile she took disconnected the corset. She said it was "abso-fucking-lutely" worthy it.

She said, "Yes! That's conscionable who I am. If you look good, it was each worthy it."

And successful a BTS video from Vogue, she said, "[Breathing is] an creation form, but I got it."

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