Queen Latifah attends her 1st Met Gala in rare outing with Eboni Nichols: See the photos

Queen Latifah stepped out on the Met Gala, making her first-ever look on the star-studded occasion.

The rapper and actress wore a robe by designer Thom Browne as she walked the inexperienced and white carpet Monday night time on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork with Eboni Nichols, who’s reportedly her longtime accomplice, in keeping with Vogue.com.

“This look is ‘birds of paradise’ and it is a good looking intricate, very intricately, made handmade, lovely [gown],” Queen Latifah informed La La Anthony for Vogue’s official pink carpet livestream. “I hope [it] can be one thing that individuals will get to check.”

Browne shared a photograph of Queen Latifah on Instagram, describing her look as, “a gathered coat in black peau de soie with raffia and bugle bead fray tipping over a sq. shoulder costume embroidered with black sequins and birds of paradise in bullion, frayed raffia and satin sew chiffon with longwing brogue heels in black sequin.”

Nichols additionally wore a glance designed by Browne, who described it as, “an hourglass all-in-one chesterfield, sportcoat and pleated skirt in engineered checks of layered ribbon in black silk satin, wool crepe suiting, wool shetland and white silk faille over a sq. shoulder costume in black cavalry twill with pink rose bullion applique and longwing on dot platforms in black patent leather-based.”

This 12 months’s theme for the Met Gala was, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Trend,” described by the museum as an exploration of “rebirth” and “renewal” that makes use of nature as a metaphor for the impermanence of style.

There was additionally an related costume code titled “The Backyard of Time,” which was impressed by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 e-book of the identical title. The literature tells the story of a depend and countess who reside in a villa that overlooks a unprecedented backyard being intruded upon by a mob.

Queen Latifah mentioned in her interview with Anthony that forward of her first-ever Met Gala, Nichols had “warned” her in regards to the large staircase that each one attendees stroll up on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork.

“I am really fairly glad. This has been an exquisite expertise, all the things from high to backside,” she mentioned. “Thanks once more, Thom Browne, for having us!”

Different attendees at this 12 months’s Met Gala included Zendaya, Nicki Minaj, Jennifer Lopez, Dangerous Bunny, Sydney Sweeney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Venus and Serena Williams, Cardi B and extra.

Click on HERE to see all of the appears from the occasion, held yearly on the primary Monday in Might.