Linda Evangelista in white at the Met Gala: the return of the top model after the treatment that disfigured her

They have been difficult years for Linda Evangelista: health problems (two tumors and a cosmetic treatment that disfigured her) have severely affected the former supermodel, who disappeared from the media radar for a long time. But today the icon of Nineties fashion is ready to get back into the game, and to prove it returns to tread the most glamorous red carpet in the world, that of the 2024 Met Gala: Linda Evangelista pleasantly surprised the public and guests by participating in the event which took place on the night between 6 and 7 May, after nine years of absence.

He did it wearing an outfit that doesn’t seem to have taken much account of the dress code, that is The Garden of Timewhich most guests played with variations on the floral theme. Linda Evangelista instead chose a outfit total white, characterized by a light drape in silk gazar, accompanied by a pair of long and sheer gloves: the garment was designed especially for her by Catherine Holstein, founder of Khaite, a brand that the top model frequently wears. The outfit was embellished with green tourmaline and diamond drop earrings made by designer Ana Khouri, with whom she posed on the red carpet.

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The last time the Canadian model, now fifty-nine years old, attended the annual gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was 2015, and on that occasion the opening of the exhibition was celebrated China: Through the Looking Glass. The dress chosen to pay homage to the theme of the evening was a red garment, a reference to Chinese culture, with a maxi black bow by Moschino.

“There was a time when I thought I would never work again, but now I am full of hope”, he told last year to d. After years of absolute silence and total withdrawal from the scene, Linda Evangelista, who with her colleagues Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington made the history of fashion by giving life to nineties supermodel phenomenonis ready to get back into the game.

Always beloved (her return to the catwalks of New York fashion week for Fendi in 2022 was welcomed with a general ovation), she is considered one of the most important models of all time, and this is demonstrated by the almost two hundred images collected in the volume released last year. titled autumn Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel. Walking the red carpet at the Met again testifies to the desire to finally return to the spotlight: “I discovered how kind and generous my world can be. In the name of diversity, they don’t expect me to be perfect, young or in the same physical shape I once was. They take me as I am.”

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