Above: Jodie Turner-Smith in Gucci.
Wearing Gucci to the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA) of Art’s annual Art + Film Gala isn’t compulsory, but it’s highly recommended. This past weekend, the museum hosted its twelfth gala on Wilshire Boulevard, sponsored by Gucci to honour America’s most influential creatives and cultural power players. In 2023, the stars dined in celebration of director David Fincher, and artist and activist Judy Baca. Once again, the ceremony was co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio and LACMA board member Eva Chow, and all enjoyed a feast curated by Michelin-star chef Mattia Agazzi of Gucci Osteria, a collaboration with torque wearer Joachim Splichal.
For many of the celebrity guests walking the LACMA red carpet, then, Gucci was the go. Many of the attendees were famous Alessandro Michele clotheshorses—now, poster people for the new guard of Gucci helmed by incumbent director Sabato De Sarno. There was Billie Eilish in a monogrammed twinset, puffed and overlong at the sleeves and trouser hem—distended to her liking—while Jessica Chastain opted for classic glamour by way of an encrusted halter neck gown; in silver, she looked every bit an Oscar-winning actress. So too did Daisy Edgar-Jones, Greta Lee and Lupita Nyong’o slip into sweeping dresses, though theirs were breathy negligées: Edgar-Jones’s, a lace-trimmed black concoction, while Lee nodded to mint and Nyong’o sported burgundy, the vampy red that stole the show at De Sarno’s spring/summer 2024 presentation in September.
And that collection, titled ‘Ancora Notte’, received plenty of love of the LACMA carpet, particularly from models and the ingenues of the Hollywood set. Emma Chamberlain looked sultry in a coffee-coloured shift, dripping with jewels. Italian models Vittoria Ceretti and Mariacarla Boscono, on the other hand, looked to drapery for impact, slinking in front of the gallery’s famous light posts in a black sheath and plunging maroon gown, respectively.
Below, discover everything celebrities wore on the 2023 LACMA Art + Film Gala red carpet.
