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This has been Greta Lee s year—and she knows it. While in the car on the way to get ready for the 2024 Met Gala, she takes a moment to look back on the rush of it all. “It s been such a wild year,” she tells me over Zoom. “It s been a really insane, surreal year and it feels so incredible and appropriate to end it with going to the Met Gala.”
Tonight is her first appearance at the Met Gala, and Lee is wearing Loewe—of course. She s been working with J.W. Anderson and collaborating with the house for a stellar red carpet year, and this column dress is based off of pieces from the Spring Summer 2023 women’s collection. “I was so struck by this thing that Loewe and Jonathan does like no one else,” she shares of the process of choosing her dress. “They are able to create this contrast. It s this incredible sculptural shape, that somehow has this contrast between really strong and also very soft and vulnerable and feminine.”
For beauty, she s assembled what she calls a “harem of incredible Asian women:” Nina Park on makeup, Jenny Cho for hair, and Naomi Yasuda on nails. “It s so fun. They are all so talented and incredible.” There was also the Lyma laser, which has been assisting with skin. “It s my new obsession.”
Just last night, the entire glam team plus Anderson sat around discussing how the final beauty look would interact with both the dress and the theme. “We re were all hanging out and and drinking wine, discussing the different ways we could do beauty to go with this dress,” Lee says. “We were wondering, are we doing something that is a thrill and romantic and lush like the JG Ballard short story, or are we going to go like Joan of Arc and Stella Tennant and do something hard to contrast? We were talking about all of this until midnight. We woke up, everyone s still texting.”
Behold, the results. For hair, she s wearing a wig hand-chopped by Cho just earlier today. “Stella Tennant’s choppy haircut was our reference,” Cho says. “Boyish, to sit opposite the delicate dress that s so strong and edgy. The wig idea came in as the dress was being made—but pivoted to this vibe this morning.”
For the rosy-cheeked makeup, Park s kit was stocked with Japanese makeup brand Addiction Tokyo. “While structured, Greta’s dress embodies an ethereal quality, evoking the sensation of air and a feeling of weightlessness, drawing off of this year’s theme. It s like Greta is gracefully floating, and we wanted the makeup to complement that feeling. I wanted to add thoughtful placements of color and opted for a color palette associated with petals and springtime.”
The brand s Cheek Polish was a hero product for the look, going on both the eyes and apples of the cheeks: “I used the product to implement sheer, blushy, and ethereal washes of color along Greta’s cheeks and eyes," Park says. There was also the gentle highlight—through a soft wash of The Eyeshadow Cream in Duomo. “We kept her complexion soft and dewy and went with thoughtful placements of color to evoke a sense of airiness and Springtime, enhancing the floral appliqués throughout her dress,” Park adds.
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