Zendaya's Met Gala 2024 Look Is Gothic Garden Perfection
After a five-year hiatus, Z hit the Met steps in a dark and vampy gown.


Annnnd there she is: Zendaya has arrived at the 2024 Met Gala.
For tonight's event—which honors the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new spring exhibition, "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion"—Z wore a dramatic striped mermaid gown by Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano. Styled by Law Roach, Zendaya's long-time stylist (or as he credits himself, "image architect"), her gown consisted of royal blue sheer paneling, an emerald green bodice, and a fit-and-flare trumpet hem.
The dark and daring dress also featured a one-shoulder silhouette, voluminous bunches of diaphanous blue fabric, and, perhaps most interesting of all, 3D fruitlike and bird motifs.
Zendaya in Maison Margiela Couture on the Met Gala 2024 red carpet.
Roach confirmed via his Instagram story that Zendaya's Met Gala gown was inspired by a surrealist Dior Spring 1999 dress designed by John Galliano that featured similar 3D grape embellishments and alternating striped panels.
As a co-chair for this year's event, the actress was always destined to steal the show. Now that Zendaya's hit the Met Gala red carpet, draped in jewel-toned frothy fabrics, adorned with feathers and fruit, and referencing fashion history, consider the show undeniably stolen.
Zendaya's gown was based off an archival look by John Galliano, which debuted in 1999 for Dior.
To accessorize her moody gown, Roach and Zendaya decided on a veiled fascinator with one sweeping feather that hit high in the air. The actress wore green stud earrings, one of which featured a small bird attached by a wire that sat just below Z's chin.
A close-up look at Zendaya on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet.
Her glam was equally show-stopping, consisting of hair-thin brows, bubblegum pink eye makeup, and a dark cherry red lip. As for her honey-blonde hair, Z wore it in a low bun and tucked it into her statement headwear.
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Zendaya's Maison Margiela Couture look came together in record time. In a New York Times interview last week, Roach said that the complete ensemble wouldn't be created and fitted until Saturday, May 4—just two days before the Gala.
The back of Zendaya's Met Gala look.
Tonight marks the Challengers lead's first Met Gala in five years. For the 2019 Met Gala, Z wore a fantastical, light-up Cinderella ball gown. By her side, Roach waved a magic wand and acted as her fashion fairy godmother. Tommy Hilfiger created Zendaya's memorable fairytale look, which is regarded as one of the best Met Gala gowns in the event's history.
Zendaya, accompanied by her creative partner in crime, Law Roach, in a light-up Zac Posen ball gown at the 2019 Met Gala.
Zendaya's first-ever Met Gala experience was in 2015, when she was only 18 years old. For that evening's dress code of "China: Through the Looking Glass," the actress wore a red and black Fausto Puglisi mini dress. Her look featured a sweeping train adorned with graphic sun motifs.
Zendaya at her first Met in 2015; the theme that year was "China: Through the Looking Glass."
Zendaya recently reflected on her first Met Gala while appearing on Live with Kelly and Mark this spring. “It was such an exciting and new experience but still terrifying, you know? Going up the steps, it’s very daunting," she said.
Fast-forward to the present: Zendaya confidently walked tonight's Met steps at the age of 27 in yet another stunning look. Baby Z would undoubtedly be proud.
Emma is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she explores the intersection of style and human interest storytelling. She covers viral styling hacks and zeitgeist-y trends—like TikTok's "Olsen Tuck" and Substack's "Shirt Sandwiches"—and has written hundreds of runway-researched trend reports about the ready-to-wear silhouettes, shoes, bags, colors, and coats to shop for each season. Above all, Emma enjoys connecting with real people to yap about fashion, from picking an indie designer's brain to speaking with athlete stylists, entertainers, artists, politicians, chefs, and C-suite executives about finding a personal style as you age or reconnecting with your clothes postpartum.
Emma previously wrote for The Zoe Report, Editorialist, Elite Daily, Bustle, and Mission Magazine. She studied Fashion Studies and New Media at Fordham University Lincoln Center and launched her own magazine, Childs Play Magazine, in 2015 as a creative pastime. When Emma isn't waxing poetic about niche fashion discourse on the internet, you'll find her stalking eBay for designer vintage, reading literary fiction on her Kindle, doing hot yoga, and "psspsspssp-ing" at bodega cats.
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