Met Gala 2022 live updates: red carpet fashion, celebrity arrivals and style highlights

Though the men of the Met sometimes bore, Guardian Australia reporter Calla Wahlquist breaks down why that may just work for this year’s theme.

Male attendees at the Met Gala often skip on participating in the theme, on the grounds that the biggest risk of wearing a well-cut black tux is you might bore fashion bloggers to death.

This year, however, there is some hope. The Gilded Age is one of the easier themes to nod to, without fully committing. Men in the late 19th century were still predominantly wearing suits, and breeches had given way to trousers.

The trick is the length. The two most popular cuts of the era were the morning coat, a single-breasted coat with a cutaway front and tails, designed to keep out of the way when riding horses, and an evening coat, which had much the same cut but was often double-breasted.The dinner jacket was introduced in the late Victorian era. It didn’t have tails but still fell to the tops of the thighs. Most suits were in black, brown or grey. Waistcoats were where risks were taken.

So Met Gala co-chair Tom Ford’s fairly sedate tuxedo is on theme.

© Provided by The Guardian Tom Ford attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

As is Lin Manuel Miranda.

© Provided by The Guardian Co-chair of the 2022 Met Gala US actor and filmmaker Lin-Manuel Miranda and his wife Vanessa Nadal arrive for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2022, in New York Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

Ben Winston, the producer of The Late Late Show with James Cordon, has a very subtle take.

© Provided by The Guardian Producer Ben Winston and his wife Meredith Winston arrive for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

While Vogue’s creative editorial director, Mark Guiducci, has a bolder take on the theme.

© Provided by The Guardian Mark Guiducci attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” Photograph: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images