Tyla Is Carried Up the Met Steps Steps in a Dress Made of Sand

Tyla, the South African singer and songwriter, may have been making her bid for a task within the “Dune” franchise when she arrived on the Met Gala on Monday night time in a cosy Balmain robe that made her seem coated in sand.

The costume was so constraining that two attendants in tuxedos needed to carry the singer to the highest of the Met steps. “That’s the one approach I’m getting up these stairs,” she informed an Access Hollywood reporter.

The tawny, strapless costume — manufactured from three colours of sand — had a structured bodice that unfold throughout her chest like a shoreline. A comfortable divot hinted on the whereabouts of her bellybutton. Extra sand slipped by the hourglass that she carried as a purse.

Tyla, who broke out in the United States last year with the music “Water,” was attending her first Met Gala. She informed reporters on the crimson carpet that the look was impressed by the sands of time.

She was not the one visitor to show to a chronology-related look based mostly on the gala’s “Backyard of Time” costume code: Sabrina Harrison wore a gold robe by Chrishabana, according to her Instagram, that gave the impression to be dripping with contorted gold clocks.

Olivier Rousteing, artistic director of Balmain, told Vogue that he created the robe partially as a result of he was intrigued by sand’s transience. “The concept of sculpting a garment from one thing as ephemeral as sand ignited my creativeness,” he mentioned. “And I couldn’t be happier with the tip end result.”

“The concept was loopy,” Tyla, 22, added. “And I beloved it.”