Ashley Graham hit the red carpet in a Ludovic de Saint Sernin leather bodice and see-through half dress.

Tommy Hilfiger personally dressed them and praised them in an interview: "They are the trendiest bunch, modern preppy, global superstars."

Emma Chamberlain returned as a special correspondent for this year's Met Gala, hitting the red carpet in a Jean Paul Gaultier black lace see-through gown with matching Cartier jewelry, and her garden theme was a little more goth and darker.

Allison Williams arrives at the 2024 Met Gala in a custom-made Michael Kors Collection gown, a black and white jacquard Chinese low-rise gown adorned with countless eco-friendly sequins hand-embroidered.

A number of supermodels also made their appearance at the Met Gala, with Anok Yai wearing a custom-made Swarovsiki crystal set like a mermaid who has just landed in the deep sea.

Others such as Naomi Campbell, Irina Shayk, Cara Delevingne, Kaia Gerber, Vittoria Ceretti, Karlie Kloss, Adwoa Aboah and many others showed up in amazing looks.

With the red carpet out of the way, let's talk about the theme of this year's Met Gala.

The Met Gala, formally known as the Costume Institute Gala, is an annual fundraiser celebrating the Costume Institute's annual fashion show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

This year's theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion", and once the theme comes out, everyone is immediately confused - what does it mean?

In fact, the "Sleeping Beauties" here don't actually refer to fairy tale sleeping beauties, but rather to costumes that are too fragile to wear anymore - hence their status as "sleeping beauties" in the academy's archives.

The collection dates back to an Elizabethan blouse in 17th-century England that embodies the beauty of the natural world - its fragility and inevitable decay.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition will also feature around 250 rare objects from the Costume Institute's permanent collection, spanning more than 400 years of fashion history.

Costumes that are too fragile to wear will also be showcased through video animation, light projection, artificial intelligence, CGI and other forms of sensory stimulation. The exhibition will pay tribute to the natural world around three main "zones" - land, sea and sky.

This year's blockbuster features actress Elizabeth Debicki, shot by legendary photographer Steven Meisel, and features everything from classic Dior dresses to floral dresses by Marni and Loewe, as well as rose hats by Philip Tracy, haute couture by Iris van Herpen, Embodies "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion".

In the Met Gala photo album, the cover of the boxed catalogue features Jun Takahashi's Spring/Summer 2024 dress, which carries live plants and is surrounded by butterflies.

According to curator Andrew Bolton, "Clothing is alive, it is made by living human bodies. But when a garment is in a museum collection, its relationship to skin and movement is lost."

It's like a fashion museum philosophy: How do we perceive clothes when they're out of the body?

But at the end of the day, whether it's the dress code or the theme of the exhibition, it's all about a state, and that is fleeting.

It's about fragile flowers, it's about the time that can't be traced back, it's about the beauty of fashion that disappears at a touch.