Nicki Minaj has become a Met Gala veteran.
The “Pink Friday 2” rapper attended the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday in New York City. This year’s theme was “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” which drew inspiration from the Costume Institute’s exhibit showing fashion masterpieces, according to Vogue.
The event’s dress code was “The Garden of Time,” a nod to J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same title.
Minaj, 41, has attended the Met Gala seven times since 2013. Here are all her looks.
May 2013: Minaj attended her first Met Gala in a Tommy Hilfiger gown
Nicki Minaj at the 2013 Met Gala. Larry Busacca/Getty
The 2013 Met Gala theme was “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” but Minaj kept things simple in a dark blue gown featuring cut-outs along the midriff and a square neckline. Tommy Hilfiger designed the gown and gifted Minaj a $32,000 Rolex for being his guest at the event.
“Oh gee, thx Tommy,” she wrote on X, known as Twitter at the time.
May 2016: She wore a Moschino gown and walked with designer Jeremy Scott on the red carpet
Jeremy Scott and Nicki Minaj at the 2016 Met Gala. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Minaj waited three years to attend her next Met Gala, which had the “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology” theme. She posed with designer Jeremy Scott, wearing a Moschino creation on the red carpet. Scott announced in March 2023 that he intended to step down from his role with the luxury fashion brand.
The sheer black dress featured a plunging necklace and black belts with bejeweled buckles. Minaj also wore black sheer opera gloves.
May 2017: Minaj’s third Met Gala look was designed by fashion retailer H&M
The “Pink Friday 2” rapper arrived at her third Met Gala wearing a black and red outfit. That year’s theme was “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between.”
Vogue reported that Minaj’s ensemble — designed in collaboration with H&M — included a duchess satin kimono top, an obi belt with designer Rei Kawakubo’s face, and intricate details like a ᵴtriƥ of red Swarovski crystals.
May 2018: Oscar de la Renta designed Minaj’s gown for that year’s Met Gala
Minaj wore another black and red ensemble to the Met Gala in 2018 when the theme was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.”
She arrived in an ombré Oscar de la Renta gown with black fabric at the top that gradually turned a bold red. She topped the gown with a matching robe featuring a long train and a detailed headpiece.
May 2019: Prabal Gurung designed Minaj’s ensemble for her fifth Met Gala
Nicki Minaj at the Met Gala in 2019.Karwai Tang/Getty Images
Minaj attended the 2019 Met Gala — with the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” theme — in an all-pink halter minidress designed by Prabal Gurung. It included a plunging sweetheart neckline, an extravagant train, and silver jewels strung across the fabric.
During a red carpet interview with Entertainment Tonight that May, Minaj admitted that she didn’t understand the event’s “camp” theme.
“Up until today, I had no idea what ‘camp’ was,” she told the outlet. “So, I don’t even know if this is camp, to be honest.”
May 2022: Minaj arrived to her sixth Met Gala in a gown designed by Burberry
Nicki Minaj attends the 2022 Met Gala.Kevin Mazur/MG22/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted Met Gala organizers to cancel the event in 2020, and Minaj didn’t attend the 2021 ceremony due to vaccine protocols. However, she returned to the Met Gala red carpet in 2022 wearing a dramatic black gown by Burberry.
Harper’s Bazaar reported that the all-black ensemble featured a strapless leather jumpsuit adorned with a large belt buckle and a long feathered train. Minaj’s outfit was paired with a matching black cap, and she accessorized with black jewels across her skin.
May 2024: For her most recent Met Gala, Minaj wore a gold minidress designed by Marni
Nicki Minaj attends the 2024 Met Gala.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
Minaj attended the 2024 Met Gala in a gold Marni minidress after skipping the previous year. She paired the dress with a matching handbag and heels.
The dress is covered in hand-painted 3D metal flowers, according to Vogue.
Minaj thanked Marni and its creative director, Francesco Risso, on Instagram, writing, “This was the most wonderful experience & I’m so grateful for @marni & Francesco who were the most exquisite, most classy gang a girl like me could ask for.”
