--- title: Met Gala Katy Perry Wears Red Dress 2017 Photos description: Katy Perry's custom Maison Margiela Artisanal dress for the 2017 Met Gala sparked plenty of controversy on the Internet. canonical: https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-05-02T00:06:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-06-24T06:56:48.835Z og:title: The Internet Is Losing It Over Katy Perry's Zany Met Gala Look og:description: The singer wore a custom Margiela dress by John Galliano og:url: https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a2ceee8363be76/6988cb7f656a3f3211bcfca9/katy-perry-met-gala-look-margiela-john-galliano.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Losing It Over Katy Perry's Zany Met Gala Look twitter:description: The singer wore a custom Margiela dress by John Galliano twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a2ceee8363be76/6988cb7f656a3f3211bcfca9/katy-perry-met-gala-look-margiela-john-galliano.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is Losing It Over Katy Perry's Outrageous Met Gala Look ## Video: This Video Is No Longer Available [Watch (HLS stream): This Video Is No Longer Available](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8) (0:10)  _Published 2026-06-23. The singer wore a custom Margiela dress by John Galliano_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 2, 2017 12:06 AM UTC  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 2, 2017 12:06 AM UTC As the co-chair of the [69th annual Met Gala](http://time.com/4540904/comme-des-garcons-rei-kawakubo-met-gala-theme-2017/), all eyes were on [Katy Perry](http://time.com/4757696/katy-perry-migos-bon-appetit/) as she arrived at the event. While some might have assumed that the pop princess would sport the designer being honored that night, the inimitable avant garde designer [Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons](http://time.com/4757973/met-gala-2017-rei-kawakubo-bio/), Perry opted instead to wear an over the top, bright red concoction from Maison Margiela Artisanal, complete with a voluminous veil that looked fit for a red wedding. The Internet was quick to chime in about Perry’s dramatic look, with plenty of people weighing in on social media on everything from the ornateness of the look to making some pop culture parallels that compared her to everything from Winona Ryder in _Beetlejuice_ to an otherworldly creature. > [](https://twitter.com/BernsteinJacob/status/859174775566020610) > [](https://twitter.com/kai%5Ftlynn/status/859178033533644800) > [](https://twitter.com/federicodevito/status/859185296432218113) Many also criticized Perry’s choice of designer. The ensemble in question is a custom design by designer John Galliano for Maison Margiela Artisanal; Galliano’s controversial return to fashion at Margiela came after a four year exile, following his dismissal from Dior in 2011 [after he was filmed making a drunken anti-Semitic rant in a Paris bar](http://time.com/3665023/john-galliano-fashion-comeback-london/). > [](https://twitter.com/StephLauren/status/859187118987505664) > [](https://twitter.com/MerciSamantha/status/859176580916051968) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/"},"headline":"The Internet Is Losing It Over Katy Perry's Outrageous Met Gala Look","datePublished":"2017-05-02T00:06:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-24T06:56:48.835Z","description":"The singer wore a custom Margiela dress by John Galliano","url":"https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Katy Perry","fashion","Met Gala","Met Gala 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a2ceee8363be76/6988cb7f656a3f3211bcfca9/katy-perry-met-gala-look-margiela-john-galliano.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt04a2ceee8363be76/6988cb7f656a3f3211bcfca9/katy-perry-met-gala-look-margiela-john-galliano.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals","caption":"\"Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between\" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals","creditText":"Theo Wargo—Getty Images For US Weekly","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/","name":"The Internet Is Losing It Over Katy Perry's Outrageous Met Gala Look"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"This Video Is No Longer Available","description":"The singer wore a custom Margiela dress by John Galliano","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/fKodeUO6/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2026-06-23T15:00:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fKodeUO6.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/","duration":"PT10S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4762550/met-gala-katy-perry-red-dress/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```