Liv Tyler and Stella McCartney’s Cheeky 1999 Met Gala Lookss

Rock royalty certainly.

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There’s by no means a nasty time to speak Met Gala trend, however with the occasion really coming again in a matter of days, it is solely acceptable to revisit among the all-time greats — and the primary that got here to thoughts was Stella McCartney and Liv Tyler‘s instantly-iconic appears for the 1999 operate.

The theme was Rock Style, and the duo embraced it totally, having some cheeky enjoyable by winking at their very own place in that world (and, extra immediately, within the exhibit, since there have been items from each Steven Tyler and Paul McCartney on show) with their DIY “Rock Royalty” tees. The second turned them into overnight cover stars and bore the sort of nostalgic pictures you may anticipate to see recreated in an Olivia Rodrigo music video at this time.

Because the story goes, McCartney known as up Tyler and invited her to an “occasion with me on the museum,” the designer recalled to Vogue final yr; the appears did not come collectively till the day-of, when McCartney took a pack of Hanes tanks to the downtown rock-and-roll classic retailer Filth Mart for to be personalized. They shopped their very own closets for the remainder of the ensembles — a Comme des Garçons slip skirt for Tyler, rhinestone-encrusted low-rise Chloé trousers for McCartney, who was the model’s inventive director on the time — in response to the journal. For magnificence, they went with shiny wispy (and really ’90s) layers, a lot of blush and super-glossy lips.

“It wasn’t actually acceptable that we wore these shirts,” Tyler instructed Vogue. “Formally, we weren’t following the honors of the gown code. It was very cool and rebellious of Stella. It was a tremendous factor, in a means. We had been simply being ourselves.” What’s extra rock-and-roll than that?

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