In the July 1981 issue of Interview Magazine, André Leon Talley became the first-ever journalist to interview Carolina Herrera after she launched her namesake label. Tonight, at the 2025 Met Gala, Anne Hathaway wears a sartorial expression of their decades-long friendship, as interpreted by Carolina Herrera’s creative director, Wes Gordon.
“There are few figures who exemplify the constant pursuit of beauty and perfection better than André. He was one of Carolina Herrera’s best friends, and it was an honor to have met him and spent time with him,” Gordon tells Vogue. “I will think of him when we walk onto the steps at the Metropolitan Museum on Monday, where he was always perched and delighting in all the looks.”
Gordon turned to the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) for help crafting Hathaway’s look. SCAD—the keeper of Talley’s personal archive–gave the Herrera team unfettered access to their collection to help the designer fit the night’s Tailored for You dress code. Gordon was drawn to the white button-down shirts Talley wore underneath his signature double-breasted suits. In keeping with the house codes, the shirt also nods to Herrera’s famous preference for the button-up.
Gordon fashioned the actor a black-and-white striped column skirt—another Herrera house code—embellished with 200,000 beads and rhinestones over 910 hours, worn with a white cotton button-up shirt tied at the waist, and black pointy-toe mules. She added a show-stopping diamond and sapphire necklace to her look for some extra sparkle.
This isn’t the first time Anne Hathaway used her Met Gala look to pay homage to a fashion titan. In 2023, she teamed up with Versace to honour both Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace. Tonight, at the 2025 Met Gala, she gives an ode to another one of the greats.
