It marked singer-songwriter Sheeran’s first Met Gala


ED SHEERAN, CARA DELEVINGNE AND STELLA MCCARTNEY

British stars Ed Sheeran, Cara Delevingne and FKA Twigs were supporting sustainability on the Met Gala carpet wearing “lab-grown diamonds” from Stella McCartney.

Singer-songwriter Sheeran was invited to his first Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York by British designer McCartney who was looking for someone “British, kickass, fun, beautiful, chic, epic, and iconic”.

The Thinking Out Loud singer was wearing a McCartney-designed baby blue tux “to match his eyes”, as he celebrated his wife Cherry Seaborn’s birthday: “Stella said just come with me and now here I am,” he said.

McCartney, daughter of Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney, said Sheeran was wearing lab-grown diamonds and vegan shoes.

“We’re bringing sustainability, we’re bringing innovation, we’re saving the animals,” she told Vogue on the carpet.

While model Delevingne, who enlisted facialist Shane Cooper’s help in preparation for the event, wore McCartney-designed jeweled body armour encrusted with lab-grown diamonds.

The chainmail hooded piece was paired with a white fitted skirt, while British singer-songwriter FKA Twigs was also “dripping in Stella McCartney diamonds which are lab-grown”.

Meanwhile Italian designer Donatella Versace dressed British actor Jude Law and Irish actor Andrew Scott for the Met Gala – both of whom have starred in different iterations of a story about career criminal Tom Ripley.

Law played Dickie Greenleaf in the 1999 original The Talented Mr Ripley opposite Matt Damon, while Scott starred in the 2024 series remake titled Ripley.

Other British stars on the carpet included Bridgerton actress Phoebe Dynevor, wearing the first custom made dress from former Spice Girl singer Victoria Beckham – whose son Brooklyn attended the event.

While actress Lily James, who played Cinderella in the 2015 film, appeared in an Erdem light pink gown featuring a long train and trouser hooks to easily pull off the train, according to Vogue.

The dress was embroidered with black flowers, said to represent fans throwing flowers onto a theatre stage.