Met Gala 2017: Ruth Negga Hits The Met in Valentino

In Valentino

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Ruth Negga attends the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

Let's start with the gown from the front, where it seems almost severe, or at least austere. There's hints of color, but that's it; Ruth's face is so great that she's selling it, as if she's the robed Pope of her own religion.

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Pierpaolo Piccioli and Ruth Negga attend the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images For US Weekly)

Then from the side there are hints of drama, and a pretty skirt visible underneath. It suits so well the idea of contrasts, and playing two sides of something.

And then. How awesome is THAT. I would buy that in a plate, a vase, an urn, or a makeshift holy book that purports to teach me her ways in exchange for my life savings.