All the Best Looks from This Year's Costume Institute Gala

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• Consider the lobster: The spiny creature on Wintour's dress is an homage to this.
• Gala co-chair Carey Mulligan does not look twee.
• It's even less twee from the back.
• Coco Rocha's vintage Givenchy jumpsuit once belonged to Elizabeth Taylor.
• Camilla Belle's dark lips seem like a Met Ball trend.
• Also a trend, apparently: canary yellow, as modeled by Solange Knowles with Rachel Roy.
• Tim Tebow says he's blessed to be at the Met Ball and is wearing Ralph Lauren purple label. He's blessed to fit in it; that line is not cut for football players.
• Lana Del Rey and her cape
• Brooke Shields
• Megan Draper looks lovely as always.
• Lady Mary would definitely wear this.
• The always-aggressive paparazzi went insane when Rooney Mara appeared.
• And Effie Trinket would definitely wear this.
• Grace Coddington
• Paula Patton, Vera Wang and Wendi "Mrs. Rupert Murdoch" Deng
• Dakota Fanning, Met Gala veteran, in Louis Vuitton
• Zac Posen with date Amber Heard
• Allison Williams of Girls looks adorable.
• Greta Gerwig in a color we will now refer to as "Gerwig Green."
• Will Arnett told the red carpet interviewer, "I'm wearing what's known as a tuxedo."
• January Jones has a sort of Kill Bill formalwear thing happening.
• Anyone else distracted by what's going on behind Lea Michele?
• Not to belabor a point, but Ann Perkins would TOTALLY wear this.
• Claire Danes knows what she likes: minimalism.
• More bold lips on Jessica Alba
• Hilary Swank and Michael Kors
• Dianna Agron
• Karolina Kurkova has draped herself in sequins.
• How many people are going to trip over Christina Ricci's train before the night is through?
• Lena Dunham is also wearing Gerwig green, because that is the official color of indie wunderkinds.
• Heidi Klum's leg and Angelina Jolie's leg share a stylist.
• Donna Karan: Damn, girl.
• Amy Adams
• Tory Burch dares to out-lobster Anna Wintour.
• Whose metallics do you prefer: Leighton Meester...
• ...or Scarlett Johansson?
• Kristen Wiig does the tangerine tango.
• So does Kristen Bell
• And so does Kirsten Dunst
• And so does Eva Mendes
• Jessica Chastain and her Jessica Chas-train (sorry, the blogging wine has begun to get to us)
• Sarah Jessica Parker in Valentino
• Sofia Vergara
• Mary-Kate Olsen goes Dark Shadows: 1970s and vampiric.
• Emma Stone's date was Alber Elbaz. Best date ever!
• Jessica Biel accessorized her Prada with Justin Timberlake.
• Emma Roberts
• Diane Kruger
• Stella Tennant looks very comfortable.
• Cate Blanchett
• Renee Zellweger
• Agree or disagree: It is the job of professional musicians to look absolutely insane at formal functions.
• Marc Jacobs
• Anja Rubik's leg taught Angelina Jolie's leg everything it knows about being a leg.
• Bergdorf Goodman's Linda Fargo in shocking Schiaparelli pink.
• Linda Fargo looks even more amazing from the back.
• For some reason, this is the only photo on Getty of Alexander Wang and Azealia Banks.
• Thom Browne. Don't his ankles ever get cold?
• Angela Lindvall in Prada
• The Courtin-Clarins sisters
• This is socialite Bianca Brandolini D'Adda. We're guessing she's not shy.
• Amar'e Stoudemire
• Giovanna Battaglia with Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld
• Shailene Woodley and Christopher Kane

Of course, Anna Wintour was the first celeb to appear on the red carpet for the Met Gala, and of course she was wearing Prada's homage to Elsa Schiaparelli—a dress made specially for the occasion. We'll be updating the gallery above as more photos appear online; in the meantime, you can watch the arrivals live at Vogue.com, Amazon.com/Fashion, or Metmuseum.org.
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