It's one of the biggest nights in fashion, so when the Met Gala – typically held on the first Monday in May – was postponed, celebrities lost their chance to show off their weirdest, wackiest and most inventive looks of the year.
The star-studded fundraiser is held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Vogue, with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour handpicking the invitees. Naturally, it's one of the most exclusive events on the fashion calendar, and onlookers wait with bated breath to see how guests will interpret each year's theme.
Past themes included Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology and Camp: Notes On Fashion, and this year's was About Time: Fashion and Duration, an homage to the museum's 150th anniversary.
Sadly, the event was postponed indefinitely due to the outbreak of Covid-19, but that didn't stop many from recreating past outfits on social media. But Katy Perry went one step further and shared what her Met Gala outfit would have been.
The Firework singer, who is currently pregnant with her first child, wasn't going to let her look go unnoticed and posted a sneak at her outfit on Instagram.
Writing "what would have been...", the singer shared her Jean Paul Gaultier-designed outfit, a muted pink satin bodice that would have highlighted Perry's blossoming baby bump. The outfit features the conical bra made famous by Madonna, who wore the Gaultier designs on her Blonde Ambition tour.
It features wide straps around the back and across the bust, with the back completely open, and Gaultier's iconic stitching is all across the bodice.
There's no way to know whether Perry would have paired the bodice with something else, or what kind of hair and makeup she would have chosen, but we're loving the homage to the fashion and musical heavyweights that went before her.
Ah, the one year people decide to stick to the theme!
This is a stark change from Perry's previous Met Gala ensembles, which have included dressing as a chandelier and a hamburger – and that was just last year.
The star typically favours quirky, bold and whimsical takes, so we're particularly interested in the kind of romantic, womanly and tongue-in-cheek outfit she had planned for this year's event.
