Met Gala 2022 red carpet: Stars kick off fashion's biggest night in style

On the second Monday in September, upper Fifth Avenue lit up with a blitz of flashbulbs not seen in over two years. The Met Gala — like Broadway, like New York Fashion Week, like the US Open — had returned, and with it the extreme pageantry that it inspires as guests and the designers who dress them vie to see who can create the most viral look according to theme.

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Actor Timothee Chalamet, singer Billie Eilish and rapper Lil Nas X kicked off a sparkling, youth-inspired Met Gala red carpet on Monday celebrating the best of American fashion.

Timothee Chalamet, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X wow at youth-driven Met Gala

After a no show in 2020, the Met Gala returned in all its glory on Monday night. Fashion's biggest night this year was spearheaded by youth icons. And so it was befitting for America's young poet laureate Amanda Gorman to make her red carpet debut at the Met.

Amanda Gorman takes inspiration from the Statue Of Liberty for Met Gala debut