The biggest names in film, music, TV and fashion ascended the off-white and airbrushed green steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York with their interpretation of the theme Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.
The Met Gala, known as fashion's biggest night, is held on the first Monday in May and celebrates the opening of the Costume Institute's spring exhibition at the New York museum.
One of the most anticipated arrivals of the night was US actress Zendaya, who served as a co-chair of the event, alongside Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and first-time attendee Chris Hemsworth.
Dune and Challengers actor Zendaya has dazzled the crowd at the Met Gala fashion event in New York. (AP PHOTO)
The 27-year-old first walked up the steps in a dramatic ocean-blue and green tulle gown with a matching dramatic headpiece from Maison Margiela, styled by her long-time collaborator Law Roach.
The ensemble featured a hand-broidered corsage, a hummingbird on her decolletage and a fascinator, which paid tribute to this year's Garden Of Time dress code with a nod to the natural world.
While her second surprise look came at the end of the carpet, with the Hollywood star opting for vintage black Givenchy couture from the spring 1996 collection, featuring a floral bouquet hat with a long train.
Other stars embodying the dress code included US singer Lana Del Rey with a mother-nature inspired woodland custom look from Alexander McQueen by designer Sean McGirr.
The ensemble is based on the original late Lee McQueen from his fall 2006 collection titled The Widows of Culloden and featured Del Rey wearing wooden antlers covered in beige netting.
Del Rey told the Vogue Met Gala livestream that the ensemble was "very architectural", and the shape was "the most important thing" for her.
"It was the idea of mother nature with a slightly more sinister aspect," McGirr said.
Del Rey attempted not to injure her fellow stars with the headpiece while posing on the carpet, including Kim Kardashian who wore a silver custom Maison Margiela ensemble.
Singer Lana Del Rey wore a Mother Nature inspired woodland custom look from Alexander McQueen. (AP PHOTO)
Reality star and Skims owner Kardashian described the metal armour-esque bustier top with a floral imprinted bodice design as "beautiful", which was paired with a floral chainmail skirt, a gray bolero cardigan and tousled hair.
Meanwhile her sister, at the annual fundraiser, after she "did her research" on the Sleeping Beauties theme.
"I'm the first human to wear it, it was showed on a mannequin ... it was a miracle that it fit, it was a miracle that we found it and it just feels meant to be," she said on the carpet.
Kylie Jenner also appeared on the carpet wearing a strapless bullet bra-style column gown from Oscar de la Renta, the same designer her mother Kris Jenner opted for on the carpet.
Following the Garden Of Time theme was British star Cynthia Erivo, who appeared alongside her Wicked co-star Ariana Grande.
Erivo, who will play Elphaba in the upcoming film adaptation of the musical, wore a Thom Browne look complete with pink silk rose petals and a butterfly attached to the back of her head.
Meanwhile US star Grande said the pink hues in the pearls on her custom Loewe white ethereal number reminded her of her Wicked character Glinda's bubble.
Model Kendall Jenner said she was honoured to be wearing an archive Givenchy from 1999. (AP PHOTO)
Co-chair Lopez attended her 14th Met Gala opting for a sheer and sparkling gown with a plunging neckline and a pronounced architectural bodice, from Schiaparelli Haute Couture.
Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny was wearing a navy barathea jacket with a bouquet made up of the Flor de Maga, Puerto Rico's national flower, a rose and a flax plant which Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on in the original fairy tale.
Vogue editor-in-chief Dame Anna Wintour has been running the Met Gala since 1995.
Dame Anna was wearing a custom Loewe look with a black cape adorned with tulips, inspired by a cloak designed by Charles Frederick Worth in the 1800s, according to Vogue magazine.
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