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How the stars get ready for the trickiest red carpet in the world

This evening some of the biggest names in Hollywood will walk the red carpet at this year's annual Met Gala. The event, which was fittingly dubbed the "Super Bowl of Fashion" by Andre Leon Talley, is orchestrated by Anna Wintour and sees designers and their muses pair off. So how do the stars prepare for a night that is arguably even trickier to dress for than the Oscars?

"The Met Gala is the biggest fashion event bar none, but it's the most controlled event in terms of dressing," explains stylist Manny Ezugwu, who has worked with Jourdan Dunn on her previous Met Gala looks. "There is no wild card option. I guess there's not even room for that because it's so heavily managed by Anna Wintour and the Vogue crew in terms of who gets invited and what designers attend. So clients know what designers they are wearing, probably by fashion week in February. They don't know the look, but they know who they are going with then or even earlier." It is also a given that a celebrity face of a design house will wear the label to the Met Gala.

This is the one red carpet where you really can't predict what celebrities will wear as most of the pieces will be one-off creations. "The Met Gala is one of the few events that the majority of items are custom," explains Manny from the Muse Talent Group. "So the designers always have a theme in mind, so dependant on the relationship you have with brand you can really direct how you want it to look or the style you're going with. With Jourdan Dunn's Burberry gownin 2015 it was a really collaborative process about what we thought would make best dressed, and with Topshop the year before they listened to us in terms of colour and material."

Cristina Ehrlich, who has styled Brie Larson, stresses that unlike other red carpets, the Met Gala is really a collaborative effort. "It is different in the sense that it is truly a collaboration, between myself and my client and also the designer who the actress is a guest of and Vogue. It is not more difficult - it’s just a more collaborative process," she explains. "It’s not more political, but it is based around the idea of costuming verses a traditional red carpet, which is meant to promote a project or a movie an actress is working on."stresses that unlike other red carpets, the Met Gala is really a collaborative effort. "It is different in the sense that it is truly a collaboration, between myself and my client and also the designer who the actress is a guest of and Vogue. It is not more difficult - it’s just a more collaborative process," she explains. "It’s not more political, but it is based around the idea of costuming verses a traditional red carpet, which is meant to promote a project or a movie an actress is working on."

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