Diving into the extremely glamorous fray on the first Monday in May is always a big deal, but for Ed Sheeran, the 2024 Met Gala was extra-special. It was his very first Met, and to ring in the occasion, the 33-year-old singer-songwriter opted for a bespoke powder-blue suit from Stella McCartney.
Needless to say, the hubbub leading up to Monday night represented a real change of pace for the West Yorkshire native. “I used to just wear hoodies and jeans and Jordans,” Sheeran admits. And indeed, the high-fashion lifestyle isn’t without its stressors: “You get fitted for these things, like, a month out, and then you go to New York for a week and eat loads of pasta and you’re like, Is it going to fit?” (Too real, Ed.)
McCartney herself was on hand to help Sheeran get ready for the gala, and she chimed in with charming stories of her own first Met, at which she and Liv Tyler famously showed up in matching Hanes tank tops reading “ROCK ROYALTY.” That’s a category that Sheeran most definitely falls into, and hopefully, this is the first of many custom looks he’ll dazzle in at Met Galas to come.
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