Cardi Bs gigantic Windowsen dressat the2024 Met Galaliterally stopped traffic.

As she neared the top, a reporter shouted out, How much does that dress weigh?

Cardi, with her typical candor, replied: If Im 135, this is like 140!

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Gigi Hadid being helped up the Met Gala red carpet on Monday.

Cardi Bs extravagant red-carpet arrival at the 2024 Met Gala.

The Met Gala has a long history of sartorial extravagance.

(Many recalled Rihannas 2015 Guo Pei stunner upon seeing Cardis fit.)

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Cardi B’s extravagant red-carpet arrival at the 2024 Met Gala.

For one: Tyla, in a column made of sand.

Im not high-maintenance, the caption read.

Then: Also me, as Tyla took not one step.

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A helping hand for Camila Cabello’s Jane Wade clutch.

Yet her look was worth the troublea sand-and-sediment masterpiece by Olivier Rousteing of Balmain.

Tylaand a group of de-facto sandtrooperson the red carpet.

A helping hand for Camila Cabellos Jane Wade clutch.

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This one not only took a village, but an entire damn metropolis.

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