Met Gala 2022: Moschino

Vanessa Hudgens

As one of the livestream hosts -- with Hamish Bowles, and they were not a well-matched team -- she obviously hit the carpet first, so this photo (or similar) was the leadoff for Vogue's own coverage. And it lurked atop their page with a kind of menace. This pretty much nailed the sleeve shape, and Hamish tried to argue that the transparency brings it right into 2022, and... I guess he's right, but really this is "make me naked but with a sleeve puff so I can get in on a technicality."

And then her train fluffer popped out to say cuckoo.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Broadimage/Shutterstock (12921503n) Vanessa Hudgens 2022 Met Gala departures at The Mark Hotel, New York, USA - 02 May 2022

This honestly feels like a Beavis and Butthead joint. They'd be chortling about how it highlights her nipples without actually showing them.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Fisher/Shutterstock (12920901s) Vanessa Hudgens Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of In America: An Anthology of Fashion, Arrivals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA - 02 May 2022 Wearing Moschino

It looks MUCH better from the side. Pity she couldn't stand like this all day. But this is not an "I'm there to work" dress; it's an "I'm there to scurry up the stairs and get some champagne and tie up this train" look. At one point during the event, she and Hamish commented that they were very cold, and I was surprised no one threw a jacket over her shoulders. Or spotted them a heat lamp.

Megan Thee Stallion

Now I'm going from favorite to least. Megan's shoulders and head and train look SO good that I don't even care that it's the same silhouette (high slit over one leg) that she always uses.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 02: (Exclusive Coverage) Megan Thee Stallion arrives at The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue )

I mean, that is truly fabulous.

Michaela Jae

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Broadimage/Shutterstock (12921692k) Mj Rodriguez Met Gala departures at The Mark Hotel, New York, USA - 02 May 2022

I love this, too. This is... gilded, at least. A fabulous metallic bathing costume for a big musical number.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by Evan Agostini/AP/Shutterstock (12921522kr) Mj Rodriguez attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" exhibition, in New York 2022 MET Museum Costume Institute Benefit Gala, New York, United States - 02 May 2022

She really pulls off the hood. I also appreciate one gilded strand of hair.

Iris Law

I don't love the cut here, but I cannot be mad at the workmanship, which you could see from behind in that photo of Megan Thee Train. It's captivating.

Simone Ashley

This boob-look is sort of an eyeroll for me much in the way Hudgens's was, and the cloak seems annoying to carry around thusly. But as always, she brings a lot of poise to it.

Ariana DeBose

I want to like this, but it looks SO HEAVY and it makes her chest look like very expensive, overly glazed pastries.

Mandatory Credit: Photo by David Fisher/Shutterstock (12920901km) Ariana DeBose Costume Institute Benefit celebrating the opening of In America: An Anthology of Fashion, Arrivals, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA - 02 May 2022

She's clearly living it up in her moment, though, which you love to see.

Anitta

It must be weird, as with Vanessa, to be the one person who DIDN'T arrive on the Moschino party bus -- or at least, she was not included in his mass interview -- and whose dress does not particularly match the rest. But the shape of it feels right to me, as do the pearls.

Madelaine Petsch

"I'm dressed as the sofa."