Met Gala 2022: Celebrities show off lavish outfits in New York

03.05.2022, 11:24 bbc.com

The Met Gala - one of fashion's biggest events - has rolled out its red carpet in New York for some of the globe's best-known stars. This year's dress code - "gilded glamour", evoking America's late 19th Century age of economic boom - sparked some debate on social media. Some poked fun at the choice of theme while American working families are struggling to make ends meet amid the highest inflation in four decades and an economy that just shrank in the last quarter. One of the attendees, actor Riz Ahmed, arrived dressed as a chic labourer. "This is an homage to the immigrant workers who kept the Gilded Age golden," he said.