Gigi Hadid Wore Pearls and a Sheer Black Cutout Corset Dress to the 2023 Met Gala
Gigi Hadid stepped out at the Met Gala tonight honoring the late designer Karl Lagerfeld by wearing a sheer black corset dress with cutouts. The look is custom Givenchy; per the theme, she accessorized with a pearl necklace.
Her hair is styled in a half-updo, and the model kept her makeup simple with a smoky eye and nude lip. The look was a far cry from last year’s event, where she wore a giant red puffer jacket and corset jumpsuit.
Hadid has had a busy year—and one where she has been quite open in interviews about her day-to-day life as a mother and model. Hadid spoke to ELLE for its March 2023 issue about the public versus private versions of herself.
“What does the world not know about me? I don’t know. I’m getting emotional [thinking about it],” she began. “I think that I’m someone who you have to be in front of to experience. It’s not hard. This isn’t a complaint. It’s more that in my job, you see a lot of snapshots.”
She wiped away tears and added, “Apparently, I needed to say it. There are a lot of snapshots and really quick moments where, again, there’s not a lot of context given.”
She explained in the interview that her and ex-boyfriend Zayn Malik’s two-year-old daughter, Khai, knows Hadid at her truest. “She obviously sees me in every state and way, and whether she knows it or not, I’m going through and learning through life with her,” Hadid said. “I think that she has a really realistic kind of 24/7, around-the-clock view. We’re up chatting in the middle of the night if she’s up; we’re talking about, I don’t know, random stuff, but it’s fun. Having a daughter, although it shifted my life to make me really want to feel more settled, has also really made me appreciate the chaos as well. Being at shows and shoots and just being in the city again; being around friends [after] becoming a mom, with everyone also coming out of COVID—I have an appreciation for both sides of it.”
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Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she’s not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.
