Cara Delevingne Goes Undercover in Bejeweled Chainmail Top (with a Full Hood!) at 2024 Met Gala

Cara Delevingne rocked a power outfit on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet!

The model and actress, 31, stepped out to this year’s gala — themed “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” — in an armor-inspired hooded top covered in crystals. She paired the midriff-baring Stella McCartney look with a long white column skirt featuring a train, and added stacks of glittery bangles on both of her wrists for a little extra sparkle.

Delevingne sported soft glam, overseen by makeup artist Pat McGrath, including natural color on her cheeks and winged liner to accentuate her eyes. The American Horror Story posed for playful photos on the carpet with McCartney, as well as with Ed Sheeran and FKA twigs.

At the 2023 Met Gala, Delevingne showed out for her longtime friend Karl Lagerfeld, who was the inspiration behind the year’s theme: “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.”

The Paper Towns star wore a reimagined white button-up shirt — a favorite and staple of her designer pal — complete with dramatic sleeves and plunging neckline, all by Karl Lagerfeld Couture.

The actress paired the shirt-dress with black leather leg warmers that reached her thighs, black strappy sandals and stacks of silver jewelry.

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Cleverly, she complemented her leg warmers with another Lagerfeld favorite: matching fingerless black leather gloves.

For hair and makeup, the star changed up her usual look dramatically, sporting a green-tinted platinum shag and a bold black-and-metallic eye look.

Speaking about her look — and ode to Lagerfeld — with Vogue on the red carpet, Delevingne revealed that she “cried on the way here a little bit.”

“It's kind of like, it's a wonderful thing to be able to do this, and he's such an incredible person. Not only in fashion but personally as a friend,” she said. “I owe him so much and it's an amazing way to remember him.”

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Some of Delevingne’s other Met Gala looks have included a gold body paint look that left very little to the imagination and a more overtly political look.

In 2021, the Only Murders in the Building star made a statement at the gala in her Dior Haute Couture white trousers and matching breastplate, worn with white Dior heels. Her breastplate featured the phrase “Peg the Patriarchy.”