--- title: Jared Leto Accessorizes with Head Replica at 2019 Met Gala description: Jared Leto came in a full Gucci look for the 2019 Met Gala red carpet, which he accessorized with a replica of his severed head. canonical: https://time.com/5580072/jared-leto-met-gala-2019-head/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-05-06T23:15:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:02:13.715Z og:title: Jared Leto Accessorized With Replica of His Head at the 2019 Met Gala og:description: Double the fun og:url: https://time.com/5580072/jared-leto-met-gala-2019-head/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb2a21aa72906234/698949884ee2628146314769/jared-leto-head-met-gala-2019-camp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2400 og:image:height: 1350 og:image:alt: The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jared Leto Accessorized With Replica of His Head at the 2019 Met Gala twitter:description: Double the fun twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb2a21aa72906234/698949884ee2628146314769/jared-leto-head-met-gala-2019-camp.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jared Leto Casually Accessorized With a Replica of His Head at the 2019 Met Gala > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ## Video: The Met Gala used to cost $50 to attend but tonight’s ticket costs $35,000 – Here’s how it became fashion’s biggest night out [Watch (HLS stream): The Met Gala used to cost $50 to attend but tonight’s ticket costs $35,000 – Here’s how it became fashion’s biggest night out](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/JZUo2hSf.m3u8) (1:37)  _Published 2019-05-06. MONEY_  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 6, 2019 11:15 PM UTC  Jared Leto attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. Jared Leto attends The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. Jamie McCarthy—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang May 6, 2019 11:15 PM UTC What’s better than one ostentatiously Gucci-clad celebrity on the Met Gala red carpet? How about two — [Jared Leto](https://www.lofficielusa.com/beauty/lana-del-rey-jared-leto-gucci-guilty-2019) came gloriously attired in a full, campy Gucci look for the 2019 Met Gala red carpet, which he accessorized with none other than a replica of his own head. Leto’s irreverent accessory is a nod to the [severed heads that models carried during the Autumn/Winter 2018 Gucci runway show](https://www.vogue.co.uk/gallery/gucci-autumn-2018-show-special-effects), which, as might be expected, caused a ruckus online. It should come as no surprise that Leto showed up in full-look Gucci for the [2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit](http://time.com/5269657/best-red-carpet-fashion-2018-met-gala/), as he’s fronted many a Gucci campaign as a noted muse and close friend of [Gucci creative director and gala co-host Alessandro Michele](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736178/alessandro-michele/) — so much so, that he wrote [Michele’s Time 100 tribute in 2017](http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736178/alessandro-michele/) and attended the gala last year with him and Lana Del Rey, where all three sported [ensembles fit for saints](http://time.com/5268716/jared-leto-met-gala-2018/) — adhering well with 2018’s Catholicism-inspired theme, _Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination._ For this year’s theme, _Camp: Notes on Fashion_ (inspired by Susan Sontag’s iconic 1964 essay, _Notes on “Camp”_), Leto wore a blood red robe with a crystal harness and carried his replica of his severed head, all made by Gucci. See Leto’s 2019 Met Gala look below. > [](https://twitter.com/VVFriedman/status/1125531014548336643) And here’s what Jared Leto and Lana Del Rey wore at the 2018 Met Gala too.  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