How Co-Chairs Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman Broke Met Gala Rules

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Next year, if you’re seeking a little special treatment at the Met Gala, all you have to do is be a co-chair.

While there aren’t too many hard-and-fast rules these days, especially since Kylie Jenner flushed the no-selfie mandate with a group bathroom pic in 2017 and the annual benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute installed its own Instagram booth, there was theoretically an age restriction as far as how old you had to be to attend.

But, first co-chair Nicole Kidman, wearing red sequined Chanel, hit the steps May 4 with her 17-year-old daughter Sunday Rose, technically an infraction of the you-must-be-18-to-enter rule. At least Nicole and Keith Urban‘s eldest daughter will be 18 in two months, on July 8.

And then, co-chair Beyoncé and Jay-Z showed up with their 14-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter in tow. So, really, the so-called rules were more like… suggestions. (See the looks worn by stars of all ages on the Met Gala carpet.)

Blue made her Met Gala debut in Balenciaga, while her ever show-stopping mama was clad in Olivier Rousteing.

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And as Nicole said, she was especially looking forward to going to her seventh Met Gala (and third as co-chair, sharing the honors with Anna Wintour and Venus Williams this year, as well as Beyoncé) because it would be Sunday Rose’s first, and they’d get to experience it together.

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The Oscar winner said on Las Culturistas in March that she was “so, so happy” to join her daughter, who “loves fashion.”

As for the 58-year-old, “I just get to be there for Beyoncé.”

Explaining the meaning behind her vibrant pink dress, with textured flowers, Sunday Rose told Vogue on the steps that she “wanted to symbolize something blooming” since it was her first Met Gala.

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Nicole said that she wanted to wear red for the “Costume Art”-themed exhibit, dress code “Fashion Is Art,” because she “wanted to embrace the way red has been used in art through the years.”

And for her, red is “a strong symbol for love, for passionate love, vitality, for power—and motherhood.”

Beyonce, meanwhile, went with a crystal skeleton gown and sparkling crown, trailing an ombré feather cape behind her. She spectacularly gilded the lily in Chopard jewelry, including an 18-karat white gold necklace boasting a 6.41-carat brilliant-cut diamond, plus 140 carats of diamonds.

Once inside the event, she changed into a glittering black and gold gown and matching veil.

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