Live From E! Exclusive: Met Gala 2025: Heidi Klum’s Met Gala 2025 Dress Includes This Detail From 1798

FADED4U May 05, 2025

Live From E! Exclusive: Met Gala 2025: Heidi Klum’s Met Gala 2025 Dress Includes This Detail From 1798

Heidi Klum is leaving the costumes behind for the 2025 Met Gala.

The Project Runway host walked the famed steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City May 5 donning a custom Vetements look by creative director Guram Gvasalia. And there is certainly more than meets the eye to the elegant strapless black gown, with only a little bit of stitched detailing lining the edges.

“It is very simple in a way,” Heidi told E! News’ Zuri Hall at Live from E!: Met Gala 2025 of her chic look for the charity gala. “Because it is the fabric that normally suits are being tailored from.”

“It’s actually very old fabric from 1798,” she continued, explaining that the fabric manufacturer has been “dressing the Pope and everyone from the Vatican since then” and using the same type of fabric for centuries.

With her form-fitting gown and classic Lorraine Schwartz jewelry for the gala—hosted by co-chairs A$AP Rocky, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton as well as Vogue editor Anna Wintour—the former America’s Got Talent judge was the epitome of this year’s theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” and its accompanying dress code, “Tailored for You,” which pulls inspiration from menswear and suiting. (See all the stars who stepped out at the Met here.)

“I always call the Met Project Runway on steroids,” Heidi quipped to E!. “Anna is kind of me in that sense where she gives an assignment. She has, every year, a theme and all the best designers from around the world have to create something along the lines that go with that theme.”

“It’s always super interesting to see what people have come up with,” she noted, “what are they wearing.”

After all, Heidi is no stranger to pulling out the most unexpected and extravagant looks—especially when it comes to her annual Halloween party. But while she has turned herself into E.T., a peacock and even a worm in recent years to commemorate the spooky holiday, the 51-year-old tends to take a different approach to the Met Gala.

“For the Met ball, obviously, I wanna be me,” she explained. “I wanna look like me, so I haven’t done too much madness on my head. I kind of feel like I look how I normally look.”