Lily Gladstone’s Met Gala Dress Features Nearly 500 Embroidered Silver Stars
After starting 2024 with a whirlwind award season, Killers of the Flower Moon star Lily Gladstone has made her official debut on the Met Gala red carpet. She wore a black gown and cape designed by Gabriela Hearst, adorned with embellishments by Kiowa jeweler Keri Ataumbi. The look features 493 silver stars embroidered with antique glass beads. Ataumbi created a custom hairpiece for the outfit as well, which Gladstone wore between her two long braids. The actress completed the look with a dramatic smoky eye and an assortment of silver rings.
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Ataumbi reflected on the significance of the design on Instagram. “Unbelievable experience to collaborate with @gabrielahearst for @lilygladstone at the #metgala. This dress that we worked on together reflects our ancestors in the stars,” she wrote.
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In early January, Gladstone made history as the first Native American actor to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama – Motion Picture. She began her acceptance speech by speaking in Blackfeet language before switching back to English.
“I love everyone in this room right now! Thank you,” she said. “I don’t have words. I just spoke a bit of Blackfeet language, a beautiful community, nation that raised me. They encouraged me to keep going, keep doing this. I’m here with my mom, who even though she’s not Blackefeet worked tirelessly to get our language into our classroom, so I had a Blackfeet language teacher growing up.”
Gladstone added later, “This award belongs to—and I hope I don’t get counted down too fast because this is an historic one. I’m so grateful that I can speak a little bit of my language, which I’m not fluent in, up here because in this business, Native actors used to speak their lines in English and then the sounds mixers run them backwards to accomplish Native languages on camera.”
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“This is an historic win. It doesn’t belong to just me. I’m holding it right now. I’m holding it with all of my beautiful sisters, and the film at this table over here, my mother, standing on all of your shoulders. Thank you,” she expressed.
Gladstone ended her speech with, “And this is for every rez kid, every little urban kid, every little Native kid out there who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented and our stories told by ourselves in our own words, with tremendous allies and tremendous trust from with and from each other. So thank you all so much!”