Even the evening’s co-host, Jennifer Lopez, leaned into the barely-there trend with a custom Schiaparelli haute couture dress, which left little to the imagination (and took more than 800 hours to embellish), while Elle Fanning, usually one of the red carpet’s more demure darlings, channelled the trend even further with a glossy, translucent gown courtesy of Balmain.

One of the ‘naked dressing’ trend’s biggest proponents of recent years, Emily Ratajkowski, who opted for a see-through archival Versace gown, even admitted in an interview on the red carpet that the dress felt ‘really natural’ on her. ‘Comfortable, truly,’ she added.

The theme of this year’s Met Gala, ‘The Garden of Time’ seemed to inspire designers to look to the Garden of Eden, where, if not Adam then certainly Eve, in all of her naked glory appeared to be a strong influence.

Confirmation that this year’s theme harked back to yesteryear came courtesy of Rita Ora, who wore nothing save for a fringe of beads across her chest, which, she admitted in an interview, were ‘older than anyone on this planet.’ It turns out the beads that adorned Ora’s body were from 2 B.C.

Of course, this isn’t the first time that daring dresses have been spotted on the red carpet this year. At this year’s Vanity Fair 2024 Oscars after-party, blink-and-you’ll-miss-them dresses also dominated, with Euphoria‘s Hunter Schafer, Kendall Jenner and Florence Pugh among those to have embraced the trend.

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