Lena Dunham isn’t quite famesick yet when it comes to the Met.
The “Girls” creator, 39, returned to the Met Gala red carpet on Monday for the first time since 2019, wearing a sparkling sequin dress lined with dramatic red feathers.
The stunning showgirl-inspired design featured a thigh-high slit and high neckline, with feathers reaching all the way to Dunham’s chin.
Dunham wore her hair in an updo and paired the look with scarlet studded heels and minimal jewelry for the “Costume Art” theme, which celebrates the connection between all human body shapes and sizes and fashion through art history.
Dunham rocked what appeared to be a pink and red polka dot manicure for fashions’ big night. She also wore an understated makeup glam, letting the red dress do the talking.
She served on this year’s host committee alongside Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat and more — a meaningful full-circle moment for the filmmaker, who grew up visiting the museum every Sunday with her family.
“Of all the places I’ve felt amazed to be in my life, the Met after dark on the first Monday in May is right at the top,” she wrote on Instagram in December when her spot on the committee was announced. “I love this theme — feels like it was tailor made for my passions, focused on the intersection of art and the body, and all the versions of what a fashionable body can be.”
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Dunham has never been one to play it safe on the Met carpet. She wore a tux in 2016 — the same year she memorably called the gala “the Metropolitan Museum of Getting Rejected by Athletes” after being seated next to a nonplussed Odell Beckham Jr., then a wide receiver on the New York Giants.
In 2017, she wore an Elizabeth Kennedy gingham gown with platform combat boots and a Planned Parenthood pin, only to be rushed to the emergency room later that night due to endometriosis symptoms. She later revealed she’d spent four days in the hospital.
Her 2018 appearance was likewise fraught. In her new memoir, “Famesick,” Dunham reveals she attended that year’s ball on scheduled leave from a rehab facility in the Berkshires, where she was being treated for a painkiller addiction. She returned to the facility at midnight.
“On the red carpet, I looked wan and haunted,” she wrote. “The whole event felt like a fever dream – cameras flashing, people shouting names that weren’t mine, champagne I couldn’t drink circulating like a joke I wasn’t in on.”
Her last appearance came in 2019, when she and “Girls” co-star Jemima Kirke wore matching Christopher Kane latex dresses for the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” theme.
Off the carpet, Dunham’s Netflix rom-com “Too Much” premiered last summer, and she spent the fall filming her next project, “Good Sex,” starring Natalie Portman and Mark Ruffalo, scheduled for release on Netflix this year.
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