Cardi B on Her Met Gala Looks Over the Years: “Be Iconic”

Cardi B says the technique stays the identical for each Met Gala look: “Be iconic.”

The Grammy Award-winning rapper and her stylist Kollin Carter — just lately featured on the quilt of The Hollywood Reporter’s Top Stylists issue — have been in prep mode for months as she has emerged as one to observe on trend’s greatest evening due to head-turning appearances that date again to 2018.

“We’re at all times pondering forward,” Cardi informed THR in late March throughout a quick interview inside Sundown Tower, website of a celebration for Hollywood’s top image makers. “I really feel just like the Met Gala is nearly like going to the Grammys. It’s very nerve-racking, and despite the fact that we make it look really easy, we actually be so nervous.”

Although Cardi remained tight-lipped about what she and Carter have in retailer for this 12 months, they’ll have loads of inspiration to drag from. Going down on Monday, the 2024 installment of the Met Gala celebrates the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue, and can carry a gown code of “The Backyard of Time.” Andrew Bolton, a curator on the Costume Institute, informed Vogue, “It is rather a lot an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of trend. One factor I hope this present will activate is that sensorial appreciation of trend.”

That must be no problem for Cardi and Carter who’ve proven an appreciation for trend of their prior Met Gala collaborations, seen beneath. “We at all times attempt to guarantee that every little thing goes proper, that every little thing be iconic. We wish every little thing to be iconic. I do know individuals typically be like, ‘Oh, it’s not about who’s there and who just isn’t,’ but it surely’s like, no, it is advisable to keep in mind us without end.”