It’s the 10-year anniversary of Emily Ratajkowski’s Met Gala debut. But this year, the star decided to take the evening off. She was not seen on the red carpet of the New York City event and was off social media today.
In 2015, Ratajkowski, then 23, attended the gala in a Topshop dress:
Prior to tonight, she was most recently at the 2024 Met Gala in an archival Atelier Versace dress.
Ratajkowski reflected on the trajectory of her career last year in an interview with Glamour UK. The star said she never sought to be a celebrity when she started modeling during her teen years.
“I didn’t want to be famous,” she admitted. “I had no plans. I wasn’t thinking about a career, I was thinking about saving money. But the saving money was to be able to do what I actually wanted to do, which was make things, basically. I saw my parents, they are both creatives, but they had day jobs, so that was sort of how I saw life working.”
She also addressed public perception of her style—and how her approach to fashion has changed. “In the past two years, how I feel is I just care a whole lot less what people think,” she said. “So, if I am in a certain type of mood where I want to post something or wear something that I could be judged for because it’s, quote-unquote ‘desperate,’ I’m a little bit like, ‘Well, that’s where I’m at.’ I’ve learned to prioritize my own happiness, probably because of my son, [Sylvester]. I feel I have bigger fish to fry than caring about the politics of whether or not I’m appealing to the male gaze in a given moment. Because I know there are plenty of times where I don’t—and I just am living my life and it feels great. There’s this huge conversation happening with Gen Z or the Taylor Swift lyric, ‘I don’t dress for women. I don’t dress for men. I dress for revenge.’ Who do you dress for? Female gaze? The male gaze? And I kind of feel like everybody’s bullshitting when people say, ‘Oh, no, I’m doing this for the girlies.’ It’s like, ‘Well, yeah, but you still look kind of hot.’ There’s a thing. And that’s great. And so I guess where I am is a little bit of a true liberation, in a personal sense, in the way that I just don’t really give a fuck.”
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