--- title: Cardi B Just Shut Down the 2019 Met Gala in Thom Browne Gown description: Cardi B dominated the 2019 Met Gala red carpet when she showed up in a resplendent Thom Browne gown and matching headpiece. canonical: https://time.com/5579575/cardi-b-met-gala-2019/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-07T01:05:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:07.676Z og:title: Cardi B Shut Down the 2019 Met Gala in a Bloody Gown og:description: Here's the story behind the making of this elaborate dress og:url: https://time.com/5579575/cardi-b-met-gala-2019/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5300f7bdf6763f6/6989492a7cdbac61d8d5f727/cardi-b-met-gala-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cardi B Shut Down the 2019 Met Gala in a Bloody Gown twitter:description: Here's the story behind the making of this elaborate dress twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd5300f7bdf6763f6/6989492a7cdbac61d8d5f727/cardi-b-met-gala-2019.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Let's Lock It Up Because Cardi B Just Shut Down the 2019 Met Gala in Her Elaborate Bloody Gown  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 7, 2019 1:05 AM UTC  NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Designer Jeremy Scott and Cardi B attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - MAY 07: Designer Jeremy Scott and Cardi B attend the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images)Neilson Barnard—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 7, 2019 1:05 AM UTC [Cardi B](http://time.com/5505409/cardi-b-trump-shutdown-video/) confirmed that the music charts aren’t the only place she’s establishing herself as [a force to be reckoned with](http://time.com/5524695/cardi-b-best-fashion-outfits/) when she showed up to the 2019 Met Gala red carpet on Monday in a stunning Thom Browne gown. The Bronx rapper, who famously rapped about her “red bottoms and bloody shoes” took to the red carpet in a new bloody look, a custom, hand-embroidered Thom Browne gown with a sweeping train and a matching Stephen Jones headpiece. The look, which was decorated with 30,000 burned and dyed coque feathers and took 35 people more than 2,000 hours to create, was a strong interpretation of the night’s piquant theme, “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” which was inspired by Susan Sontag’s iconic 1964 essay, [_Notes on “Camp.”_](https://www.vogue.com/article/what-is-the-met-gala-everything-we-know) This isn’t the first time that Cardi has stopped red carpet traffic at the Met Gala; last year, Cardi walked the red carpet in [a resplendent Catholic Madonna-inspired look](http://time.com/5269657/best-red-carpet-fashion-2018-met-gala/) that was a wink-and-a-nod to her pregnancy at the time and the night’s theme, _Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination_. See the full Cardi B Met Gala 2018 look below. > [](https://twitter.com/metmuseum/status/1125557515138281472) And here’s what Cardi B wore to the 2018 Met Gala.  Cardi B attends the 2018 Met Gala. 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