At last, it’s the first Monday in May—and Jenna Ortega is making sure to pull out all the stops.

The Wednesday star has officially returned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s carpeted steps to attend the 2025 Met Gala. For fashion’s biggest night, she opted to wear a strapless metallic silver dress by Balmain’s Olivier Rousteing that, upon closer inspection, appears to be made out of numbered rulers that have been sculpted to her body. Ortega coordinated with a diamond-encrusted collar necklace by Grown Brilliance, an array of sparkly rings from Hearts on Fire, and bouncy Old Hollywood curls.

Jamie McCarthy

The dress code for this year’s Met Gala is “Tailored for You,” which is derived from the Costume Institute’s exhibition theme, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.” The Institute developed the theme by taking inspiration from Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity, a 2009 book by Barnard College professor Monica L. Miller.

“I feel that the show itself marks a really important step in our commitment to diversifying our exhibitions and collections, as well as redressing some of the historical biases within our curatorial practice,” head curator Andrew Bolton said. “It’s very much about making fashion at the Met more of a gateway to access and inclusivity.”

This is the first exhibition since 2003 that will be solely focused on menswear. Appropriately, Pharrell Williams, Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky, and Lewis Hamilton have been appointed as co-chairs.

Ortega attended her first-ever Met Gala in 2023. At the time, she repped Thom Browne in a black goth-glam look, which included a black corset bodice, an asymmetrical ruffled miniskirt train, and a cropped tuxedo jacket.