Year after year, Jared Leto makes an absolute Met Gala meal. No one wears an attention-grabbing device as reliably as he does: In 2019, you’ll recall, he actually carried his own head to the annual event. This year, for the Gilded Glamor themed Met Gala, expectations were set sky-high. Maybe that’s why when a man appears on the carpet, dressed as a king from a planet far, far away, with waves of thorns sprouting from his clothes, people just went ahead and assumed Leto did the same trick again. It is so awful! Only: that’s not Jared Leto.
Maybe it’s a compliment to Leto when people see an outfit that scores 10 out of 10 on a crazy scale and don’t even bother double-checking to see if it’s really him. Soon after this man stepped on the red carpet, many publications began to spread information that Jared Leto had come to the Met Gala. Even New York Times, which tweeted and later deleted an image described as “Gilded Glamor-themed” by Leto, which was hustled, scammed, conned, deceived, lost its way. (Shout Vulture for leaving their mistake.)
The outfit passed on as Jared-being-Jared, but the outfit actually belongs to Fredrik Robertsson, who has one thing in common with Leto: both are famous for appearing in fashion push envelopes. It’s inevitable that Robertsson and Leto don’t look exactly alike, especially behind a veil of brushes and full makeup.
It wasn’t Leto, but the actor ended up showing up dressed as beautiful Jared Leto to the Met Gala. Longtime Gucci follower dressed up as the creative director of the label Alessandro Michele. The couple donned matching outfits: an embroidered ivory bust chest, a scarlet bow and even a metal hairpin arranged in the same place. It’s fitting that even when Leto actually showed up at the Met Gala, he was dressed in a way that was purported to cause some confusion around his identity. Little did he know that Robertsson was so much ahead of him.
