You never forget your first time...at the Met Gala.
Just ask Billie Eilish, who made her debut at the annual star-studded fashion event at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2021.
"It's nuts," the singer, who turned heads at the event with a Marilyn Monroe-like blonde hairstyle and strapless peach Oscar de la Renta gown, said on the Howard Stern Show that December. "It's famous people famous people-ing."
When you get so many celebs together showcasing extraordinary fashion styles, it's not easy to stand out. "Everybody's just embarrassed and insecure about what they're doing and saying," Billie said. "It was amazing though. It just was beautiful in there."
But her favorite part is the lack of fangirling. "What's nice about other people that are in the same kind of world that you're in," she explained, "is they're not getting their phone out and shoving it in your face because they don't want that themselves and that is really relieving."
Billie did go on to attend the two subsequent Met Galas and even snuck in an epic bathroom selfie with fellow celebs at the 2023 event.
The Grammy winner was not the first celeb to break a longstanding no-selfie rule. At the event in 2017, a year after making her Met Gala debut in a sparkling Balmain gown, Kylie Jenner snapped her own group bathroom pics at the bash, featuring stars such as first-time-attendee Paris Jackson, then 19, wore a black Calvin Klein dress.
Zendaya, one of the upcoming 2024 Met Gala co-chairs, was also a teenager when she made her Met Gala debut. At 18, the Euphoria star walked the red carpet at the 2015 event in a custom black and red Fausto Puglisi dress with a short, flared skirt, complete with a long train and sun design embellishments. She went on to attend four more Met Galas before taking a break for half a decade. Now, she is euphoric about her return to the charity ball on May 6 celebrating the museum's "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" exhibit.
"It felt like the right time," Zendaya told E! News' Will Marfuggi at the Challengers premiere in Los Angeles April 16, "to try to go back to the Met."
Look back at more stars' Met Gala debuts.
Naomi Campbell in 1990
In Versace
Sarah Jessica Parker in 1995
"My guess is that this was a dress from the thirft store which then I had tailored," the actress told Vogue in 2022, "and clearly did my own hair and makeup.
Gwyneth Paltrow in 1995
In Calvin Klein
Kate Moss, Calvin Klein & Christy Turlington in 1995
In Calvin Klein (Kate)
Salma Hayek in 1997
In Versace
Gisele Bundchen in 1999
In Versace
Victoria Beckham in 2003
In Dolce & Gabbana
Nicole Kidman in 2003
In Gucci by Tom Ford
Kate Hudson in 2003
In Stella McCartney
Eva Mendes in 2004
In Zac Posen
Jimmy Fallon in 2004
Diane Kruger in 2004
In Balenciaga
Naomi Watts in 2004
In Marc Jacobs
Serena Williams in 2004
Emmy Rossum in 2005
In Ralph Lauren
Ashley Olsen & Mary-Kate Olsen in 2005
In Oscar de la Renta (Ashley) and a vintage dress from What Comes Around Goes Around (Mary-Kate)
Sienna Miller in 2006
In Burberry Prorsum
Jessica Alba in 2006
In Calvin Klein
Rihanna in 2007
In Georges Chakra
Kerry Washington in 2007
Cameron Diaz in 2007
In Dior
Beyoncé in 2008
In Armani Privé
Blake Lively in 2008
In Ralph Lauren
Taylor Swift in 2008
In Badgley Mischka
Amber Rose & Kanye West in 2009
In Carolina Herrera (Amber)
Jessica Biel & Justin Timberlake in 2009
In Versace (Jessica)
Anne Hathaway in 2009
In Marc Jacobs
Leighton Meester in 2009
In Louis Vuitton
Katy Perry in 2009
In Tommy Hilfiger
Emma Stone in 2009
In Matthew Williamson