Zendaya at the Met Gala 2024, wearing custom Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano, and hat by Stephen Jones.
The fruit, flowers, insects and birds on the gown fit the dress code of the night, 'The Garden of Time', inspired by J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story (explained here by the BBC).
The gown also references John Galliano’s Spring 1999 couture collection for Dior, in particular the gown below, decorated with grapes.
Maison Margiela said:
'A sage lamé bias-cut ‘siren dress’ overlaid with iridescent electric blue organza with ‘retrograding’ in undulating bands of hand-painted metallic crin, swathed in an aluminium material and iridescent organza drape and bow, with a corsage hand-embroidered in a bacchanal of hand-painted impasto in the grammar of the electric blues and emerald greens of scarab amulets, with formations of birds, flowers, vines, grapes and nuts, worn over a boudoir-coloured duchess satin corset. A silver metal-wire ‘reverse swatching’ hat and a black hand-painted voile crafted in the memory of plume and enveloped in matching coloured stockings by Stephen Jones for Maison Margiela, and Eau de Nil velour and faux lizard Tabi interlaced ankle-strap pumps by Christian Louboutin for Maison Margiela.
Created for Zendaya by John Galliano for Maison Margiela, the haute couture silhouette was inspired by the 1930s mythological works of the photographer Madame Yevonde and imbued with the memory of the orgiastic sceneries of the bacchanals of Ancient Greece. In a dance between painterly cutting and draping techniques – unique to each layer of the construction – and the superposition of fabric textures such as tin foil with transparent iridescent organza overlay, the composition conjures the staccato brushstrokes of Giovanni Boldini. The bias-cut ‘siren dress’ is a key expression in the creative practice of John Galliano, which first appeared at Maison Margiela in the Spring-Summer 2020 Artisanal Collection. Infused with a certain ‘snobisme’, the look is given the epithet of ‘86 and Lexington’, a nod to the subway station near The Met.
The dress was crafted with ‘retrograding’, a technique through which variations of thread-work, appliqué or encrustation degrade from the bottom to the top of a garment like the linear base drawing of a painting that hasn’t yet been finished. The ‘reverse swatching’ technique employed in the hat exchanges the fabrics traditionally used for certain parts of dressmaking with materials of a contrasting value.' X
Hey GP do you think that asuka's 'Kitty cat ears' Back? Because he honestly looks soooooooooooooooo kyute with those ears and I think that daisuke seemed to have clipped them off😭😭😭
I think asuka is such a cute kemonomimi that way😊😊😊
Hate to break it to the silly fanbase, but they are NOT "Kitty Ears".
They are nodes that helped restore his Backup Memories when he Retrograded his body to maintain his Youth.
Asuka, despite having lived in the same era as Sol and Jack-O' for nearly 170+ years is STILL A HUMAN (he is NOT a cat).
Most likely, because he merged with the Tome of Origin, he can no longer perform any future Retrogrades (i.e. revert to a Younger Body), and the only real reason he was successful the last time (around 2186) was because Raven assisted him in restoring his memories during the HPC-Server Backup process.
According to what we know, part of the reason he had a "wing" over his eyelid was a mutation in the telomeres of his genes during the restoration process, but that "eye" was replaced with a Red Winged "eyepatch" when he took on his new public appearance in Strive's events.
His eye color also went from "Light Blue" to "Gold" during the transition from Revelator to Strive (though that could be an oversight on the developer's part).
Unlike Raven or Sol, he is neither Immortal nor has Gear Cells in his body. As a result, he probably does not have as long to live compared to either of them, though at the very least, he is still in good health for the time being.
