Vintage Chanel dresses were out this May Day in New York.
Karl Lagerfeld's friends and muses paid tribute to him for this Met Gala 2023 celebrating a life in the service of fashion.
Most of them wore dresses that saw the light of day ten, twenty, thirty and even forty years ago, signed by the designer for the house on rue Cambon.
Margot Robbie, Gisele Bündchen, Naomi Campbell, Carla Bruni, Marion Cotillard, who also sported a surprising look, and of course, Penélope Cruz.
Penélope Cruz's Chanel dress at the Met Gala was straight out of the Spring/Summer 1988 haute couture show. (New York, May 1, 2023.) Taylor Hill/Getty Images
In the position of co-president of the evening, the Spanish actress and Chanel ambassador arrived among the first on the red carpet.
She wore a spring-summer 1988 haute couture dress from the brand.
At the time, it was Ines de la Fressange, legendary muse and longtime friend of Karl Lagerfeld, who wore the dress during the show in Paris.
With her corseted dress, adorned with a hood in transparent veil on her low bun, of a mint green so light that it seems opaline, Penélope Cruz looked like a bride from another time.
And this isn't the first time she's honored the designer at the Met Gala, nor the first time she's worn a dress that could be bridal outside of the usual ceremonies.
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Penélope Cruz's dress for the 2019 Met Gala, signed Chanel.
(New York, May 6, 2019.) Rabbani and Solimene Photography / Getty Images
Obviously, the 49-year-old actress has a thing for white dresses.
From the Oscars in 2009 where she appeared in Balmain to the Venice Biennale in 2020, via the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 and without forgetting her Chanel dress at the Emmy Awards in 2018, Penélope Cruz never tires of this silhouette or Chanel. , of which she has long been an ambassador.
On March 5, 2019, during the poignant last Chanel show designed by Karl Lagerfeld, she closed the show by wearing her ultimate wedding dress.