{"id":93698,"date":"2025-05-06T14:52:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/seeing-double-zendaya-and-anna-sawai-stun-in-nearly-identical-met-gala-looks-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2025-05-06T14:52:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T14:52:49","slug":"seeing-double-zendaya-and-anna-sawai-stun-in-nearly-identical-met-gala-looks-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/seeing-double-zendaya-and-anna-sawai-stun-in-nearly-identical-met-gala-looks-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Seeing double? Zendaya and Anna Sawai stun in nearly identical Met Gala looks | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zendaya and Anna Sawai shared a standout twinning moment at the 2025 Met Gala, where the spotlight was just as much on style synchronicity as it was on the theme: Superfine: Tailoring Black Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Held on Monday, May 5, at the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this year\u2019s fashion extravaganza drew an electric mix of glamor, culture, and couture.<\/p>\n

Among the most talked-about pairings of the night?<\/p>\n

Zendaya, 28, and Anna Sawai, 32, who both turned heads in nearly identical crisp white ensembles.<\/p>\n

Zendaya, a Met Gala regular, arrived in a custom Louis Vuitton zoot suit designed by Pharrell Williams, who also served as one of the event\u2019s co-chairs.<\/p>\n

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Her sharp three-piece suit featured a matching tie, wide-brimmed hat, and a sparkling brooch pinned just beneath her back collar.<\/p>\n

Sawai, making her Met Gala debut, walked the carpet in a look so similar it sparked immediate fashion buzz. Her Dior ensemble echoed Zendaya\u2019s in almost every detail, from the collared shirt to the white tie and wide-brimmed hat.<\/p>\n

The only major difference? Sawai\u2019s trousers were wide-legged, while Zendaya\u2019s flared at the hem.<\/p>\n

\"Zendaya<\/p>\n

The Sh\u014dgun<\/em> star\u2019s entrance firmly placed her among the evening\u2019s most memorable debuts.<\/p>\n

Zendaya\u2019s appearance marks her seventh time attending the Met Gala, all of which she\u2019s graced solo. Her Met Gala journey began in 2015 with a sculptural Fausto Puglisi gown embroidered with sun motifs, in line with the China: Through The Looking Glass<\/em> theme.<\/p>\n

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She made annual appearances through the end of the 2010s, famously embodying a light-up Cinderella in 2019 for the Camp: Notes on Fashion<\/em> theme\u2014a tribute to her Disney beginnings.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sawai is new to the Met Gala scene but certainly not to fashion\u2019s radar.<\/p>\n

\"Zendaya<\/p>\n

Her debut couldn\u2019t have been more fitting, given the evening\u2019s homage to Black style and dandyism, rooted in historical expression and modern tailoring.<\/p>\n

Announced by Vogue<\/em> back in October 2024, the co-chairs for this year\u2019s gala included Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour, with LeBron James serving as honorary chair.<\/p>\n

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The evening also featured a high-profile host committee including Simone Biles and her husband Jonathan Owens, Doechii, Regina King, Spike Lee, Usher, and Angel Reese.<\/p>\n

The event raised funds for the Costume Institute while spotlighting its spring 2025 exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition draws from guest curator Monica L. Miller\u2019s 2009 book Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity<\/em>, with Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, explaining that it explores \u201cthe Black dandy as both a concept and an identity signifier.\u201d<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s dress code, Tailored for You<\/em>, emphasized the artistry of menswear and suiting, and few embodied that message better than Zendaya and Sawai.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zendaya and Anna Sawai shared a standout twinning moment at the 2025 Met Gala, where the spotlight was just as much on style synchronicity as it was on the theme: Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. Held on Monday, May 5, at the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, this year\u2019s fashion extravaganza drew an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/zendaya-anna-sawai-met-gala1746535629-0\/zendaya-anna-sawai-met-gala1746535629-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}