The Wednesday and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice actor took the word tailored literally; she appeared in a futuristic silver-coloured dress, created by Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing, made from classroom rulers cut to various lengths and linked end to end or overlapped.

To match the metallic colour of the dress, Ortega went with white gold diamond jewellery and a silver necklace. Her long hair was styled in Old Hollywood waves that, when combined with her smoky makeup, created a soft contrast to the statuesque dress.

It’s precisely this thinking-outside-the-box strategy that makes Olivier Rousteing’s Met Gala designs stand out year after year. In 2024, with the theme Garden of Time, he provided the viral Met Gala moment of the evening – remember Tyla walking the red carpet as an actual hourglass with a dress made of sand? Iconic.