Why they criticized Shakira’s dress at the Met Gala: it was designed by Carolina Herrera

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Shakira had divided opinions about the dress she wore at the 2024 Met Gala – credit Andrew Kelly/Reuters

Once again the eyes of the public fell on one of the most important and anticipated events in the world of entertainment and fashion. This is the Met Gala 2024, the space where art and fashion come together with world-class celebrities.

On May 6, the stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City once again shone with the extravagant looks of the guests at the gala, which brings together celebrities, important personalities, designers and influential figures, who with their presence help raise funds for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Zendaya posed at the Met Gala, with this year’s theme “Sleeping Beauties: Awakening Fashion” – credit Andrew Kelly/Reuters

For this year the dress code was allusive to The Garden of Time, a story by JG Ballard from 1962, so many people sought to shine with surprising and disruptive looks corresponding to the theme.

“Focused on the commemoration of those pieces of clothing so fragile that they cannot be worn again, being sleeping beauties,” as the event explained.

This is how the most popular and recognized Colombian singers of the moment, Karol G and Shakira, arrived at the special night, who in their own way wore dresses and makeup that represented them and the theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Awakening of Fashion in NY”.

Although on previous occasions the singer from Barranquilla had not participated, after the great success worldwide in the last year, she was invited to the 2024 gala.

Shakira arrived with a big red dress by Carolina Herrera, one of the best designers in Latin America, with which she wanted to show that it was a red rose from the garden, which was what the dress code required at the Met Gala 2024.

However, her outfit did not conquer the public, as many assured that Shakira and her style did not go with the concept that she had proposed for this year’s gala. There were even those who claimed that the singer did not understand the theme.

Shakira on the red carpet at the Met Gala 2024 – credit EFE

“Shakira looks beautiful, but where is the theme?”; “Karol G devoured at the Met Gala, and Shakira fasted at the Met Gala”; “Shakira is pretty, but can you tell me what the red dress represents in relation to the theme of the book The Garden of Time and the Met Gala?” are some of the comments left by some people on social networks.

This is why Infobae Colombia spoke with the journalist and fashion expert Beatriz Arango, who in her X account explained what the intention of the singer’s dress was and defended her from those who did not understand her initiative.

Journalist and fashion expert defends the look Shakira wore at the Met Gala – credit @Bearangomoda/X

According to the journalist’s statements, Karol G and Shakira shone in their respective style, since ‘La Bichota’ was more risky and was carried away by fantasy, glitter and imagination; but the singer from Barranquilla was more sophisticated, faithful to her, to her time, her loose hair, and even her shoes and the way she normally wears them.

“You cannot judge Shakira’s dress leaving the hotel, which was the first image we saw, you have to look at it, analyze it and enjoy it, above all, in the staging, which are the stairs leading to the Met Museum in New York .

Beatriz Arango indicated that Shakira was like a red rose and the concept could be understood more just when she began to parade down the stairs that had a carpet.

“When you see that dress laid out on the stairs, she stops and the train falls, and when you look at her from the front, the updo they make of the sleeves is beautiful, they are rose petals. And when you see it from a distance you say: ‘It’s a spectacular rose,’” Arango explained.

The meaning of the dress Shakira wore at the Met Gala – credit @andresguillen6_/X

Furthermore, Beatriz assures that Shakira connects with the Garden with the jewel she wears on her chest, which are Cartier diamonds that would lead people to fantasy because of the crystals and glass flowers that exist in that space.

But that was not the only relevant thing about Shakira’s look at the Met Gala, since the flower has to do with the state she is in in her life and also with the meaning she is handling in her new album.

“It goes in a very simple column, because all the spectacle, all the volume and expression of the garden is on the plate. So I feel that Shakira did not give up her style and she did it with the help of experts like Carolina Herrera who give her a very high level of sophistication. But it also tells the story of a flower in its splendor, and it is no coincidence that it goes now, that she is separated and that she is at a moment in her life in which she is in the flowering of her life. , she pointed out.