This has been Greta Lee’s year—and she knows it. “It’s been such a wild year,” she tells me over Zoom. “It’s been a really insane, surreal year and it feels so incredible to end it with going to the Met Gala.”
Tonight is her first appearance at the Met Gala, and Lee is wearing Loewe—of course. She’s been working with J.W. Anderson and collaborating with the house for a stellar red carpet year. For beauty, she’s assembled what she calls a “harem of incredible Asian women:” Nina Park on makeup, Jenny Cho for hair, and Naomi Yasuda on nails.
She was drawn to the Loewe dress because it was both hard and soft—”it has this really hard architectural shape but made of this transparent lace. There are these broody flowers on it, which just make it such an immersive experience.
For hair, she’s wearing a wig hand-chopped by Cho just earlier today. “Stella Tennant’s choppy haircut was our reference,” Cho says. “Boyish, to sit opposite the delicate dress that’s so strong and edgy. The wig idea came in as the dress was being made—but pivoted to this vibe this morning.”
For the rosy-cheeked makeup, Park’s kit was stocked with Japanese makeup brand Tokyo Addiction. “While structured, Greta’s dress embodies an ethereal quality, evoking the sensation of air and a feeling of weightlessness, drawing off of this year’s theme. It’s like Greta is gracefully floating, and we wanted the makeup to complement that feeling. I wanted to add thoughtful placements of color and opted for a color palette associated with petals and springtime.”
The brand’s Cheek Polish was a hero product for the look: “I used the product to implement sheer, blushy, and ethereal washes of color along Greta’s cheeks and eyes,” Park says.
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