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Natasha Silva-Jelly

Supermodel Gigi Hadid's Met Gala Dress Is A Work Of Art That Took 13'500 Hours To Make

Gigi Hadid at the 2024 Met Gala celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." (Credit: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

Trust supermodel Gigi Hadid to nail the 2024 Met Gala "The Garden of Time" theme and land on the best-dressed list in our opinion— wearing a custom Tom Browne dress that took a team of 70 people and 13,500 hours to make. A true work of art, the dress take its rightful place in Browne's permanent archive after the Met Gala.

Sporting a short wavy blonde retro Hollywood bob, Hadid who is dating actor Bradley Cooper was a green garden carpet stand out in the white off-the-shoulder-corseted dress adorned with thorn appliqués, and a garden of yellow roses. It took a team of 40 to embroider the voluminous cascading skirt and a team of 20 who spent 5,000 hours hand-embroidering 2.8 million micro bugle beads onto the dress.

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