Zendaya Nails Second Met Gala Look with Giant Floral Headpiece and Black Dress Made the Same Year She Was Born!

Zendaya had not one but two stunning looks for the 2024 Met Gala red carpet.

The actress, who served as a co-chair at the May 6 event, returned to the carpet to debut her second ensemble of the evening, a black off-the-shoulder corset gown with a long train. The dress is a never-worn archival look by John Galliano for Givenchy created in 1996 — the same year Zendaya, 27, was born, Vogue notes.

She gave a nod to this year's dress code of "The Garden of Time" with a massive bouquet headpiece filled with multicolored roses.

Earlier in the evening, the Challengers actress stunned on the red carpet in another head-turning gown by Galliano for Maison Margiela, per Vogue. The look, styled by her longtime collaborator Law Roach, featured many intricate details throughout, including black, blue and green tulle and berries and leaves draping over her waist.

Her beauty look was equally as daring, featuring smokey eyes, maroon lipstick and razor-thin eyebrows. She also wore striking bird earrings and a huge feather fascinator.

Ahead of the event, Zendaya stepped out for Anna Wintour's famous pre-Met dinner, where she wore a white vintage lace Galliano gown from the designer's fall 1998 collection.

The stunning ensemble featured a sheer pink floral top embroidered with butterflies, which is most likely a nod to the dress code inspired by a short story by J.G. Ballard. 

The 2024 Met Gala theme of  “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” ties into the upcoming Costume Institute exhibit that will feature approximately 250 items — including 15 significant pieces such as an 1877 Charles Frederick Worth silk satin ball gown — that span over 400 years of history.

According to Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, the exhibition will be shaped around three main “zones”— Land, Sea, and Sky — that pay tribute to the natural world. “It is very much an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of fashion,” he said.

Zendaya has become a Met Gala mainstay over the years. She made her debut in 2015 in a custom Fausto Puglisi sun-motif dress, inspired by that year's theme, "China: Through the Looking Glass."

Prior to the 2024 Met Gala, her most recent appearance was in 2019 when she wore a light-up Cinderella gown by Tommy Hilfiger.

While visiting Live with Kelly and Mark in April, Zendaya opened up about returning to the Met after a five-year hiatus.

"Going up the steps is very daunting, and I haven't been back for maybe four or five years," she said. "So this is, like, my first time back at the Met in quite a while."

She also spoke about her partnership with stylist Roach, who she has been working with since she was 14. 

"It's fun in the sense that I like to look at fashion as creativity," she said of her personal style. "Even in press tours, it's a way to continue the creativity from the film. ... I like to just create characters, because ultimately sometimes, doing this for a living feels a little weird and awkward and I'm more of a shy, introverted person, so I get to create these characters. 'I'm this woman today who wears a green suit.' You get to embody this character for a day and clothes can do that for you."

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