Met Gala 2025 carpet has a Kerala connection

Shah Rukh Khan donned an all-black bespoke outfit, Dlljit Dosanjh shone in a white ensemble that honoured his Sikh roots and Kiara Advani, sporting her baby bump, combined black, white and gold too. Bejewelled and resplendent, the three showbiz stars from India made a memorable debut at the Met Gala.

And then there were event regulars, actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas and entrepreneurs Natasha Poonawalla and Isha Ambani dressed in their finest.

Fashion world's biggest night, held annually at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, also saw fashion designers Sabyasachi and Manish Malhotra walking the blue carpet dotted with daisies on Monday night (New York time).

However, there was another Indian connection to the event, in regard to the Met Gala carpet. One Kerala-based brand named Neytt Homes, founded by Sivan Santhosh and Nimisha Srinivas, made the base of the carpet.

The base of the carpet was manufactured in Allappey by Neytt Homes, and it was later hand-painted by artists in New York. Another interesting fact about the carpet is it took 480 people to make the final product.

“Manufactured using the finest and the best quality natural sisal fiber hand sorted from Madagascar in boucle weave, we sent 57 rolls of 4 x 30 meter for this project – totaling 6840 square meters. 480 people across different departments worked on the carpet for close to 90 days to perfect the weave and finish as per Met Gala standards,” Santhosh told The Indian Express.

However, this was not the first time that the company has put its hard work into the project as it had supplied the red carpet for the Met Gala in 2022, 2023 as well.

The theme of the gala this year was “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, which is a homage to Black fashion.