5 Vogue editors, a stylist, a handful of assistants, one messenger, a publicist, a resort electrician, and an It-girl mannequin on the rise stroll right into a becoming room with a screw-on costume.
That isn’t the start of a joke, however the making of Amelia Grey Hamlin’s main 2024 Met Gala look. The mannequin wore the Undercover, spring 2024 light-up terrarium costume by Jun Takahashi—its sister costume, in pink, is presently within the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Trend” exhibition on the Met. However spectacular because the second was, it took fairly a bit of labor and lots of, many arms to tug off.
“Something for Vogue, however rattling, that was one in all my more durable gigs,” stated Hamlin on the cellphone yesterday. “The suitable aspect of my physique nonetheless hasn’t recovered, however it’s high-quality!” For context, the costume doesn’t operate like an everyday frock—you possibly can’t simply zip it up. There’s a corset, an below costume, after which the encasing, which is cut up in half and screws on on the sides. The skirt has two round home windows by which the flowers inside might be organized, and all of it will get lined by two strips of tulle that come from the underside of the encasing that should be draped in a particular approach earlier than assembly the bustier. It’s an enterprise, for certain. “However it was a dream to put on and an honor to hold that torch,” stated Hamlin. That is, in any case, one of the vital memorable attire in current reminiscence. Whereas Hamlin’s was not a reside terrarium, the piece on the runway was a feat of ingenuity with its reside crops and butterflies. Takahashi might need been working by his emotions of grief, however from his ache got here one thing great, and Hamlin on the Met gave it its rightful place in vogue historical past.
