--- title: Zendaya Glows on 2019 Met Gala Red Carpet in Cinderella Gown description: Zendaya stole the show on the red carpet at the 2019 Met Gala, wearing an outrageous Tommy Hilfiger gown and did actual magic tricks. canonical: https://time.com/5579571/zendaya-met-gala-2019/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-07T01:00:34.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:07.720Z og:title: Zendaya Is Literally Doing Magic Tricks on the 2019 Met Gala Red Carpet og:description: Luminescent og:url: https://time.com/5579571/zendaya-met-gala-2019/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt731f42ae193255f9/6989498f929fad6eccbf32b6/zendaya-met-gala-2019-camp.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The 2019 Met Gala Zendaya og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Zendaya Is Literally Doing Magic Tricks on the 2019 Met Gala Red Carpet twitter:description: Luminescent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt731f42ae193255f9/6989498f929fad6eccbf32b6/zendaya-met-gala-2019-camp.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Zendaya Is Doing Magic Tricks in a Glowing Cinderella Gown at the 2019 Met Gala Right Now  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 7, 2019 1:00 AM UTC  Law Roach (L) and Zendaya attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. Law Roach (L) and Zendaya attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City.Dimitrios Kambouris—The Met Museum/Vogue/Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 7, 2019 1:00 AM UTC [Zendaya](http://time.com/4093271/zendaya-interview-influential-teen/)‘s no stranger to knowing what it takes to really stand out on the [Met Gala red carpet](http://time.com/5420012/met-gala-2019/), an impressive feat when you consider that the [Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit](http://time.com/5269657/best-red-carpet-fashion-2018-met-gala/) is widely known as “fashion’s biggest night.” In the past, the actress has been spotted in a chain mail, Joan of Arc-inspired gown and a voluminous yellow Dolce & Gabbana gown that was so show-stopping that [it earned the approval](https://www.instagram.com/p/BTm3vhxjE%5FW/) of [ultimate Met Gala doyenne, Rihanna.](http://time.com/5257694/rihanna-met-gala-dress-pope-2018/) This year, however, Zendaya upped the ante by really leaning into the night’s theme, [“Camp: Notes on Fashion.”](https://www.vogue.com/article/costume-institute-2019-exhibition-camp-notes-on-fashion) The theme, which was inspired by Susan Sontag’s iconic 1964 essay: _Notes on “Camp”,_ was an open challenge for the night’s celebrity guests to show up in their most quirky and outrageous looks and Zendaya did not disappoint. Sporting a glowing, Cinderella-esque gown designed by Tommy Hilfiger, and accompanied by a charming companion, her stylist Law Roach, she not only embodied the event’s theme with vim, she effectively commanded plenty of the attention on the red carpet. She did actual magic tricks. With the wave of a wand, her dress transformed. She even left a glass slipper. Spellbound. > [](https://twitter.com/wwd/status/1125563964098846721) > [](https://twitter.com/mcucevans/status/1125567331869052929) > [](https://twitter.com/RaminSetoodeh/status/1125561411298582528) > [](https://twitter.com/SHOKOOK%5Ftwt/status/1125563361012269057)  Zendaya attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. 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