As every year, the Met Gala ignited the flashes and networks from the staircase of the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York. Under the clothing code Tailored for Youinspired by the new exhibition dedicated to Black dandismthe stars paraded interpreting – with greater or lesser fidelity – the proposed theme. But few managed to unleash as much discussion as Shakira.
The Colombian singer, in her second consecutive appearance at the gala, chose a design on Monday pastel pink of Prabal Gurung that emulated the Old Hollywood.
Shakira’s pink look at Met Gala 2025: controversy and praise equally
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The dress, long to the feet, tight to the body and with lateral transparencies, finished in a pleated tail that seemed to float. As a complement: a necklace with a pink diamond and transparent black gloves. A delicate, dreamy and glamorous look that for many was an aesthetic success … and for others, an evasion of the Code Dress.
Shakira broke the Met gala dress code?
“It seems that he goes to a quinceañera”a user shot on social networks. “Shakira and the theme of the met gala, as with taxes: evading them”, Ironized another, without missing the old fiscal controversy that pursued her.
Shakira’s pink look at Met Gala 2025: controversy and praise equally
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Criticism pointed to the design itself, but to their alleged disconnection With the central theme of the event: a celebration of black dandism and its break with the norms of gender and race in fashion.
However, the pink color in black dandism represented challenge to gender norms that destabilizes conventional masculinity ideas. Black dandism is not to go black.
The debate put on the table more than fashion: it put into play the cultural and political reading that surrounds each outfit in the met gala. Should the interpretation be literal? Or is the gesture of personal subversion more powerful, as Shakira did?
Shakira’s pink look at Met Gala 2025: controversy and praise equally
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Outside of virtual noise, the artist showed radiant, laughing and posing with ease On the blue carpet. He did not seem to care if he was right or not with respect to the code. And maybe there resides his greatest gesture of freedom. In addition, he always kept his iconic look in his hair. A natural goddess.
