Baby's first Met: what today's high fashion heavyweights wore to their first Met Gala

Behind every great look from a Met Gala heavyweight, there are usually five equally brilliant looks, and then one terrible one. The first one.

After years and years of highly publicised, meticulously documented Met Galas, it can be hard to recall looks from just five years ago, let alone the 2000s or, god forbid, the 2010s. As such, many celebrities have an easy time hiding their Met debuts, especially if there’s a long list of iconic looks to bury it beneath.

But in keeping with this year’s Met exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, we are excavating some of those long-forgotten early Met looks. might be red carpet royalty now, but she was once a prom queen in Georges Chakra. And Bella Hadid may be the queen of slinky chic, but even she had a messy debut (in custom , no less). Here, we look back at the first time our devout Met heavyweights set foot on those hallowed stairs.