Every One Of Kim Kardashian’s Met Gala Looks Over The Years

Then pregnant with her first child, Kardashian made her Met gala debut as a guest of Kanye West in 2013, with the theme being Punk: Chaos to Couture. She wore Givenchy by Ricardo Tisci, a floral number that the designer suggested as the stretchy fabric would work with the baby bump. However, she later recalled “crying the whole way home ” after the internet compared her look to a sofa.

The 2014 Met paid homage to designer Charles James, and Kardashian and West both paid homage in Old Hollywood-inspired looks. The mogul opted for a deep blue Lanvin gown, which was strapless with a thigh-high split.

Kardashian made her mark on the Met in 2015, taking the stairs in a striking naked dress by Roberto Cavalli to fit the theme China: Through the Looking Glass.

For the theme Manus x Machina: Fashion In the Age of Technology, Kardashian went futuristic in a silver, custom Balmain look.

After opting for high-impact the two years prior, Kardashian kept things more minimal in 2018 with an off-the-shoulder Vivienne Westwood Couture dress.

The 2019 theme, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination is oft regarded as one of the Met’s best-ever. Kardashian leant into it in a glittering, gold Versace dress.

To quote Karlie Kloss, in 2019 Kardashian was looking camp right in the eye.

She turned heads and sparked much online chatter after stepping out in this custom, wet-look Mugler dress, which accentuated her figure to the enth degree. The star admitted that the corset she wore for the look left her with indentations, telling WSJ she had to practice breathing and had “never felt pain like that in my life.”

For the first Met back post-covid., Kardashian kept things casual in Balenciaga. Too casual, in fact, some thought. Her skin-tight, all-black ensemble covered her entire body, including her face, worn under a black T-shirt dress. While she was initially resistant to cover her face, designer Demna Gvasalia managed to convince her.

The look divided the internet. Some thought it a genius take on the Met Gala theme, In America: A Lexicon of Fashion (what’s more American than a classic tee?), where others thought it lazy. Either way, it was certainly one of the night’s buzziest looks.

Perhaps her most controversial look yet, for the 2022 Met gala Kardashian wore Marilyn Monroe’s Jean Louis dress, which the star wore to serenade president John F. Kennedy in 1962. While she only wore the real garment for a matter of minutes, descending the stairs in it before changing into a replica, she allegedly damaged the (very fragile) dress during that time.

In addition to being criticised for reportedly ruining a historical artefact, Kardashian faced backlash for openly admitting she lost weight to fit into the gown.

A decade after she first made her debut, Kim Kardashian paid homage to her late friend, designer Karl Lagerfeld at the 2023 Met Gala. Her custom Schiaparelli gown was made entirely of strands of pearls and served as a relatively safe option following the hubbub of the year prior.

For 2024’s Garden of Time gala, Kardashian glittered in a corseted Maison Margiela Couture look comprised of a floral dress and cosy grey cardigan.