Gigi Hadid describes Met Gala dress as ‘arts and crafts moment’
Gigi Hadid describes Met Gala dress as ‘arts and crafts moment’ and what the event means to her.
Gigi Hadid attended the Met Gala on Monday in a dress that started with Scotch tape.
The Bucks County local, during her arrival at the gala, described her preparation for the New York fashion event as an “arts-and-crafts moment” with her team as they built a Miu Miu dress from a sheer base and flame patches inspired by the designer’s spring 1998 and spring 2011 collections.
“We patched these on where I felt the best in my body,” Hadid said. “The canvas was the body.”
The theme of this year’s Met Gala, which is a benefit for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was “Costume Art.”
“The Met Gala to me is like a big art class where we all get a theme and an assignment and we get to come make things not for consumption,” Hadid said. “[The] night will bring so much education and obviously the preservation of so many beautiful things for fashion education for hundreds of years.”
She told Vogue the dress was created just days before the Met Gala. “We all sat in a hotel room two days ago, literally, and Scotch-taped the patches onto me in a way that felt celebratory,” she says. “It’s built on the body. The body is the canvas.”
Gigi Hadid’s Bucks County connection
After model and TV star mom Yolanda bought a house in Solebury in 2017, supermodel Gigi Hadid became a regular fixture around Central and Upper Bucks County, where her daughter’s dad, pop star Zayn Malik, also owns a farm.
Jenkintown native Bradley Cooper, Gigi’s boyfriend, bought a Solebury estate of his own in 2023. Although Hadid walked the Met Gala carpet solo, Cooper was later spotted inside the event.
Hadid, who also spends time in New York, is regularly spotted around Bucks County, whether on the street in New Hope or on a visit to Owowocow after the company earned a “USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice” award in 2024.
Jess Rohan can be reached at jrohan@usatodayco.com.
