Met Gala 2024: Zendaya, Tyla and Sabrina Carpenter lead eye-catching looks

This year's Met Gala theme would not have impressed The Devil Wears Prada's demon magazine editor Miranda Priestly, but it hasn't stopped a string of stars from walking the green carpet in their garden-inspired garments.

A-listers were invited to be imaginative with the 2024 dress code, The Garden of Time, which was inspired by a short story of the same name by JG Ballard.

Most stars took it literally, taking inspiration from flowers, petals, branches and leaves, while others played around with the short story's themes of time and history.

Here are 26 of the most eye-catching outfits:

Normally when stars talk about wearing ice, they're referring to diamonds. In Camila Cabello's case, however, she's referring to actual frozen water.

"My hands are really cold," the singer said, explaining she was planning to pass the ice on to someone else after she reached the top of the stairs. "I can't feel my hands."

The large block of ice featured a rose in the centre and accessorised her Ludovic de Saint Sernin gown, which reportedly featured 250,000 crystals and took more than 450 hours to make.

The Bear star Ayo Edebiri and Schitt's Creek actor and writer Dan Levy both opted to keep their floral designs on the down low, with outfits that looked traditional from the top but bloomed from the waist down.

Edebiri wore a backless column dress with a hand-embroidered floral pattern intended to create the illusion of gradual blossoming.

Similarly, Levy wore what looked like a classic suit from the top half, but which faded a into a bright floral motif lower down.

We've got to hand it to her, Demi Moore had one of the best looks of the night, even if she forgot to bring a bow to go with her arrows.

The actress's velvet dress, designed by Harris Reed, was adorned with huge pink peonies made from vintage archival wallpaper.

Reed said the dress took more than 5,000 hours to make, adding that it was designed so the flowers would appear to decay as the design flowed further down the dress.

Singer Lana Del Rey had not attended the Met Gala since 2018, so decided she needed to give her fashion sense a root and branch overhaul.

She wore a corseted dress in silk, double georgette and tulle. The dress referenced an Alexander McQueen piece from nearly two decades ago, brought up to date by the fashion house's current creative director Seán McGirr.

But the highlight was the special headpiece, which made use of natural hawthorn branches.

A glowing Lea Michele walked the carpet wearing a Rodarte turqoise gown with a tulle cape, two months after announcing she was pregnant for the second time.

The Glee star and her husband Zandy Reich, who have a three-year-old son, Ever Leo, said they were "overjoyed" to be expecting again.

If you ever need someone to bring you flowers in the pouring rain, Nicki Minaj has got you covered.

The singer's yellow Marni mini-dress was adorned with 3D metal flowers in varying shapes and sizes - one of the most colourful and committed looks of the night.

Her look was completed by a bob hairstyle with an arched bubble ponytail.

Did Bad Bunny look as if he had yanked his suit jacket out of the sewing machine before the tailor had actually finished making it? Yes. But he still looked great.

The rapper and singer wore a Renaissance-inspired custom Maison Margiela suit in navy blue with white threading which resembled pinstripes.

He carried a floral bouquet made from the same material as his jacket, reportedly intended to resemble a mixture of roses, Flor de Maga (the national flower of Puerto Rico), and the flax plant, which Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on in the fairy tale.

The latter is a reference to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which explores seminal pieces spanning four centuries.

-bbc