The 22-year-old South African singer made what may be one of the best Met Gala debuts of all time Monday, wearing a custom Balmain creation made of sand and micro-crystals, fitted to the millimeter based on a cast of her body. She wore jewelry by Alexis Bittar and John Hardy, and carried an hourglass-shaped purse by Balmain to further underline her look’s tie-in to the night’s “Garden of Time” dress code. Tyla’s sand dress was so fragile, in fact, that she had to be carried up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps to avoid her gown’s organza-and-sand train crumbling from the movement.
Just like a coastline subjected to the ocean’s tides over time, Tyla’s look changed throughout the night. Once the star made it inside the gala, Balmain creative director Olivier Rousteing, the designer behind the delicate look, posted a video on Instagram of himself kneeling on the floor before Tyla and cutting into her dress, using scissors to slice off the bottom portion of the dress, revising the original floor-length gown and its train to mini length so Tyla could move more freely.
source: Vanity fair
