Tate McRae Wore a Naked Variation of Her Met Gala Gown to the After-Party
The theme of the night was body-ody-ody
Reported by Harper's Bazaar.
There's a certain kind of woman who arrives at the Met Gala and still manages to upstage herself before midnight. Tate McRae is apparently that woman. According to Harper's Bazaar, the Grammy-nominated singer made her red carpet debut in a gold-lace mermaid gown by Ludovic de Saint Sernin — a structured, body-conscious design with boned bodice, cascading ruffled tiers, and a sweetheart neckline finished in hand-applied feathers. The inspiration? The gilded carvings of La Réale, Louis XIV's ceremonial boat, still preserved at the Musée national de la Marine de Paris. Which is to say: she showed up dressed like a mythological sea creature commissioned by a French king, and it worked.
The After-Party Edit
But McRae wasn't done. When the night moved to the Saint Laurent after-party at People's Bar, she surfaced in a second look — same designer, entirely different energy. The slipdress read like the after-hours version of her red carpet moment: sheer floral gold lace, two spaghetti straps, opaque embroidered cups at the neckline, and raw scalloped edges at the hem. The boning was still there, barely — more suggestion than structure. It left, as they say, little to the imagination.
The styling choices matched the vibe perfectly. McRae finished the look with PVC Metropolis sandals from Gianvito Rossi, Gentle Monster sunglasses, and a pendant necklace shaped like a perfume bottle — the kind of detail that reads effortless only when it's been thought through completely. She was photographed arriving hand-in-hand with Rosé, two pop stars in peak form, making an entrance that didn't need to try.
Naked dressing isn't going anywhere, but McRae and de Saint Sernin found a way to make it feel like more than just skin — by threading a visual narrative from the red carpet all the way to last call. The gown and the slip weren't two separate looks; they were a conversation, a deliberate escalation. That's not styling. That's storytelling.
When your after-party dress is a more dangerous version of your already-dangerous red carpet gown, you've officially won the evening.
Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.
