The glamour and glam of this year’s Met Gala also served as the ideal setting for expectant celebrity mothers to flaunt their baby bumps.
One of the night’s most notable highlights was tennis star Serena Williams and model Karlie Kloss publicly revealing their pregnancy while walking the cream, red, and blue carpets.
The evening’s dress code was “In Honor of Karl,” which meant celebrities were influenced by late Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld. It was held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The retired tennis player donned a Gucci-designed black mermaid gown with silver border, multiple strings of pearls around her neck, and a stacked pearl headband.
Footage from the red carpet shows Williams’ husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, lovingly placing his hand on her abdomen. Williams told reporters that there are “three of us” on the carpet. This is the tennis player’s second child.
Kloss, 30, recently disclosed that her and businessman husband Joshua Kushner are expecting their second child.
Wearing a Loewe outfit designed by Northern Irish fashion designer Jonathan Anderson, her black gown featured Lagerfeld’s signature strings of pearls, with a trompe-l’oeil design giving a modern, surrealist edge to the ensemble.
“I’m so happy, this is the first time I’m sharing my news, so it’s very special,” she told Vogue. She continued: “I was pregnant last time during the pandemic so I didn’t leave my sweatpants. So this is the first time I’m on a red carpet pregnant and it’s a super special moment, also kind of vulnerable – so I don’t know how to style a belly. I can’t imagine a more special moment.”
Tapping into the red-carpet maternity fashion trend for sleek, skintight designs, Kloss’ dress had long sleeves and a tight silhouette to show off her growing bump.