In the July 1981 issue of Interview magazine, André Leon Talley became the first-ever journalist to interview Carolina Herrera as she launched her namesake label. Last night, at the 2025 Met Gala, Anne Hathaway wore a sartorial expression of their decades-long friendship, as interpreted by Carolina Herrera’s creative director, Wes Gordon.
“There are few figures who exemplify the constant pursuit of beauty and perfection better than André. He was one of Carolina Herrera’s best friends, and it was an honor to have met him and spent time with him,” Gordon told Vogue. “I will think of him when we walk onto the steps at The Metropolitan Museum, where he was always perched, delighting in all the looks.”
Gordon turned to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) for help in crafting Hathaway’s look. SCAD—the keeper of Talley’s personal archive–gave the Herrera team unfettered access to its collection. Gordon was drawn to the white button-down shirts Talley wore underneath his signature double-breasted suits—and in keeping with his own house codes, the shirt also nods to Herrera’s famous preference for the button-up.
Gordon fashioned the actor a black-and-white–striped column skirt—another Herrera signature—embellished with 200,000 beads and rhinestones (crafted over 910 hours), worn with a white cotton button-up shirt tied at the waist and black pointed-toe mules. Hathaway finished the look with a showstopping diamond and sapphire necklace for some extra sparkle.
This isn’t the first time Hathaway used her Met Gala look to pay homage to a fashion titan. In 2023, she teamed up with Versace to honor both Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace. At the 2025 Met Gala, she gave an ode to another one of the greats.
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