Zendaya Has a Secret, Third 2024 Met Gala Gown She Wore Inside the Event
After shutting down the carpet, she quick changed into a demure pink dress.


Just when it seemed like Zendaya left it all on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet, she had a fashion surprise up her sleeve—in the form of a secret, third look for fashion's biggest night.
The co-chair of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Costume Institute Benefit, this year honoring the exhibit "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," spoke to guests inside the event after quick change out of her second red carpet look. Image architect Law Roach styled Zendaya in a custom gown by Celia Kritharioti, featuring a deep, plunge neckline and hundreds of beaded embellishments.
Giving prepared remarks alongside gala co-chairs Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth, Zendaya wore a custom beaded gown by Celia Kritharoti.
After wearing an assortment of towering fascinators and bird-inspired accessories on the official carpet, Z let her third dress's dramatic neckline and all-over embellishments do the heavy lifting. She paired them simply with pink drop earrings and glowy, minimal beauty—plus the bleached brows she wore for her second lap up the Met steps.
Zendaya's third outfit of the evening featured a deep, plunge neckline and hundreds of blush-tone beads.
Celia Kritharoti is a Greek couture designer who's gotten a lot of play in Zendaya's wardrobe recently. On the Challengers press tour, Z and Law Roach had two more custom looks created by the house: first a neon green after party dress embellished with a tennis ball, next a mini dress bedazzled to look like the movie's poster.
Speaking with her fellow Met Gala co-chairs, Zendaya showed off her dress's flowing skirt and shining embellishments.
Zendaya's blush pink gown was her most understated approach to the evening's "Garden of Time" theme, relatively speaking. The Challengers star kicked off the red carpet in a dramatic blue Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano gown. Her piece, Roach confirmed on Instagram, was inspired by a Dior Spring 1999 dress designed by Galliano. For its "reawakening" on the Met Gala red carpet, the duo added a towering feather fascinator and hyperrealistic grape embellishments on the hip. Zendaya's beauty breakdown amped up the look's drama with red eyeshadow and dark burgundy lips. (Similar gothic looks were a big trend on the carpet.)
Zendaya kicked off the 2024 Met Gala in one of the night's best looks: a dramatic Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano gown.
Hours later, Zendaya returned to shut down the red carpet in a vintage Givenchy gown, dating from John Galliano's 1996 tenure at the house and sourced from the boutique Lily et Cie. The diaphanous black ballgown featured an off-the-shoulder neckline, a corseted bodice, and a giant train—all emphasized by a giant Phillip Treacy bouquet fascinator originally designed for a 2006 Alexander McQueen collection.
Zendaya returned to the Met Gala steps in a vintage Givenchy gown and Philip Treacy fascinator.
Fashion fans can debate which of Zendaya's three outfits were the best looks of the Met Gala. Everyone can agree that no one did the "Garden of Time" theme quite like its co-chair.
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Halie LeSavage is the senior fashion and beauty news editor at Marie Claire, where she assigns, edits, and writes stories for both sections. Halie is an expert on runway trends, celebrity style, emerging fashion and beauty brands, and shopping (naturally). In over seven years as a professional journalist, Halie’s reporting has ranged from fashion week coverage spanning the Copenhagen, New York, Milan, and Paris markets, to profiles on industry insiders like celebrity stylist Molly Dickson, to breaking news stories on noteworthy brand collaborations and beauty product launches. (She can personally confirm that Bella Hadid’s Ôrebella perfume is worth the hype.) She has also written dozens of research-backed shopping guides to finding the best tote bags, ballet flats, and more. Most of all, Halie loves to explore what style trends—like the rise of emotional support accessories or TikTok’s 75 Hard Style Challenge—can say about culture writ large. She also justifies almost any purchase by saying it’s “for work.”
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