Vaishnavi Srivastava
The 2023 Met Gala is as usual trending today and for the next couple of days (if not weeks) and that’s no shocker to us. This year’s theme was “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”, and various A-list celebrities displayed their own interpretation of the theme (I mean did y’all see miss Doja Cat?!). While there were hits (Rihanna and Lil Nas *chef’s kiss*), there were some misses as well (*coughs* ken-doll*coughs*), but one thing we may always expect from met gala is to create the most buzz around this time of year. From Jared Leto’s over-the-top cat costume to the uninvited cockroach, when it comes to the Met Gala, nobody is disappointed in terms of entertainment.
Courtesy: Harper’s Bazaar.
Met Gala is essentially an exclusive event hosted by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Art and Costume Institute. The event is a fundraiser hosted to raise money in order to fund the fashion department of the Met. The fame of the gala, however, is owed to Anna Wintour (the editor-in-chief of Vogue), the lady who changed the trajectory of the gala since she joined the board. Every year the gala announces a theme and the invited celebrities are to showcase their individualities in line with the theme of the gala.
There were several Indian artists appeared at the Met gala this year, including famous names like Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Alia Bhatt, Isha Ambani, Natasha Poonawalla and many more. Moreover, there were Indian designers who were worn by a-list celebrities on the gala, designers such as Prabal Gurung shone brightly by designing for artists like Alia Bhatt and Taika Waititi.
Courtesy: Indiatimes
However, the impact of Indians on the met gala was not limited to the celebs and the attires, this year’s met gala had a unique carpet design that caught the eye of many. Little do people know the carpet was made in India. Trending on Twitter because of its similarities to toothpaste, the beige “red carpet” had scattering lines of blue and red. It was created by “Neytt Extraweave”, which is a design house situated in Kerela India. The carpet reportedly took 60 days to construct. It was 6960 square metres long and created with 58 30 X 4-metre rolls.
Sivan Santhosh the founder of Neytt Extraweave told Indian Express, “For the mega event, we sourced the best quality sisal fibre, which is durable, specifically from Madagascar. The carpet was weaved using 120 cm of the raw material… It was machine-made in India, and hand-painted in the United States”.
