Bollywood actor Kiara Advani, who is expecting her first child with husband and her "Shershaah" co-star Sidharth Malhotra, made a stunning debut at Met Gala 2025 in a custom-made Gaurav Gupta couture titled "Bravehearts".
"Mama's first Monday in May," the actor captioned her pictures on Instagram from the event, billed as fashion's biggest night, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The theme of this year's Met Gala is "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" and Gupta said his design piece for the actor from "Bravehearts" was about all kinds of transformation: emotional, physical, and generational.
"In creating this piece for Kiara, we wanted to honour her motherhood and pay homage to the bold elegance of Black style. The look bridges continents and his-tories, merging a deep symbolism with the radical refinement of Black dandyism," the designer said in a post shared on his official Instagram page.
"A tribute to defiance, legacy, and new beginnings. Bravehearts is built on the spirit of the Black Dandy - those who challenged norms and reshaped culture with grace, strength, and individuality," he added.
Kiara, who posed for the shutterbugs at the Met Gala as she caressed her baby bump, looked radiant in the monochrome garment with a gold sculpted breastplate with two hearts - "mother and child, connected by an abstract umbilical cord".
"She is enveloped in a dramatic white cape echoing André Leon Talley's 2010 Met Gala look, the piece is both armour and offering," Gupta further said.
Sidharth, who accompanied Kiara to New York, shared one of her photographs from the gala on his Instagram Stories.
"Both Bravehearts," he wrote in a nod to his wife and their unborn child.
Pop star Rihanna, too, stunned at the Gala, where she debuted her baby bump. The 37-year-old singer is expecting her third child with her partner, rapper ASAP Rocky. The singer revealed of her pregnancy as she entered Carlyle Hotel.
Rihanna donned a grey corset with a black floor-length skirt and cropped black jacket, topped with a black hat. Rocky, co-chair of the event, wore a custom all-black AWGE look.
Rihanna and A$AP Rocky have been frequent attendees at the Met Gala, with Rihanna making over a dozen appearances since 2009.
Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief and Met Gala organiser, has praised the couple's influence on fashion and said, "They're very talented, they're very brilliant... they have an enormous amount of style," as quoted by the media.
The singer and ASAP Rocky, 36, started dating in 2019.
They welcomed their first child, son RZA, in May 2022. The duo had second son, Riot, in August 2023.
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