MET Gala 2021: Billie Eilish's second dress that evoked Grace Kelly
For the MET Gala 2021, Billie Eilish was not only inspired by Marilyn Monroe, she also evoked the look of Princess Grace with a second Oscar de la Renta dress.
MET Gala 2021 co-host Billie Eilish and British Vogue Style Director Dena Giannini pored over 'about a million images together' as they prepared the singer's looks for the biggest fashion event of the year. .
What was between the images? A photograph of Hollywood icon Grace Kelly in the 1955 classic 'To Catch a Thief', which eventually became the source of inspiration for a second spectacular dress signed by Oscar de la Renta. This is how after climbing the steps of the MET Gala 2021, the co-host donned a second voluminous tulle dress.
Like the spectacular dress the 'bad guy' performer wowed in the first few minutes, her second look paid tribute to the famed costume designers who 'really shaped the history of American fashion,' Dena Giannini said. to British Vogue before the event.
While singer Billie Eilish's first outfit nodded to the Charles LeMaire gown that Marilyn Monroe borrowed from 20th Century Fox's costume department for the 1951 Oscars, her red gown paid tribute to the legendary designer Edith Head. of the unforgettable white dress with a wasp waist that the future Princess Grace wore in the Hitchcock movie at that time.
'Like LeMaire, the designer, Edith Head, had a very meticulous approach to her beautiful work, and that's evidenced in the pieces she created for Hitchcock's' To Catch a Thief' film, '' said the Style Director of British Vogue. Fernando Garcia and Laura Kim, from Oscar de la Renta, were commissioned to reinterpret the strapless white dress that Grace Kelly wore in the 1955 film, but in a deep red hue that stole glances at the MET Gala 2021.
