How Keeley Hawes Got Ready for the 2024 Met Gala
Behind the scenes with the Scoop star as she prepares for fashion's biggest night.
Keeley Hawes is no stranger to glamorous nights. The actress, who recently starred in the film Scoop (streaming now on Netflix) and will soon appear in the series Orphan Black: Echoes, is a three-time BAFTA TV Award nominee who’s married to Emmy winner Matthew Macfadyen, which is to say, they get out now and again.
“We’ve been lucky enough to go to awards shows and those sorts of exciting evenings, but the difference is when you’re lucky enough to be up for an award—or be with your husband who’s up for an award—there’s a level of terror that’s hard to get away from,” Hawes says. “Going to an event like the Met Gala has the same sort of excitement, but without any of the fear.”
For her very first Met Gala, Hawes was a guest of Marc Jacobs, who designed the gown she wore in collaboration with artist Brandy Kraft. “Everyone at Marc Jacobs has been so kind in offering options for me to wear,” Hawes says, “and choosing the dress was a painless process.”
Not quite as simple? Preparing for the event. Hawes and her husband came to New York from London the day before, and she invited Town & Country and photographer Jessica "Yeya" Chávez along to see her get ready for the evening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which serves not only as a glamorous gala but also a fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute and a celebration of its latest exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. Here’s how it went.
Adam Rathe is Town & Country's Deputy Features Director, covering arts and culture and a range of other subjects.
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