Darling, where's your trousers? Knicker trend is growing legs

Appearing in public without your trousers? For most of us, it's the stuff of nightmares. But for a handful of people who scaled the Met Gala steps on Monday night, it was simply fashion.

- Morwenna Ferrier

The singer Sabrina Carpenter and the White Lotus actor Lalisa Manoban, who played Mook, were among celebrities who attended wearing Louis Vuitton tuxedo jackets, stockings and little else. Naturally, Carpenter wore an espresso-coloured bodysuit with coat tails, while Lisa's sparkly knickers were embroidered with replicated portraits by the American artist Henry Taylor.

Wicked's Cynthia Erivo joined them with her hot pants exposed under a black tulle Givenchy gown of some size. The Color Purple actor Taraji P Henson arrived in a tuxedo micro-dress by Monse that barely covered her crotch, and the model Hailey Bieber finished her thigh-skimming Saint Laurent blazer with a pair of black stockings and little else.