Is Doja Cat Wearing a Towel Dress to the Met Gala This Year?

The singer is embracing a fresh-out-of-the-shower look.

Doja Cat attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City.
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For some people, showing up in a wet T-shirt to a fashion event that garners millions upon millions of viewers would be a haunting nightmare. For Doja Cat, it's a fun fashion statement for the first Monday in May. Yes, that is correct: Doja Cat wore a wet T-shirt dress to the Met Gala 2024.

The rapper, ever one to subvert style expectations, didn't precisely follow the "Garden in Time" dress code in her soaked-through maxi tee. Doja Cat's wet dress, by Swiss luxury fashion house Vetements, clung to her body—as wet T-shirts tend to do.

US rapper Doja Cat arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

Doja Cat in a Vetements wet T-shirt dress on the Met Gala.

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As Doja Cat walked on the Met Gala red carpet, the musician strategically covered the most see-through aspects of her look.

For accessories, she opted for a sampling of Jacob & Co. jewelry, including sparkling diamond studs, yellow diamond drop earrings, and a matching 35-carat yellow diamond pendant necklace. Pairing $88,200 worth of diamonds with a sopping wet T-shirt as a dress? So very Doja.

US rapper Doja Cat arrives for the 2024 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024, in New York. The Gala raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

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There is, however, some sense of a theme for Doja Cat's Met Gala fashion.

Before hitting the Met steps, the "Paint the Town Red" singer walked out of New York City's The Mark Hotel wearing a Vetements white towel that circled around her torso and was held together with her hands. She completed her fresh-out-of-the-shower look with a matching towel from haircare brand Crown Affair wrapped on her head and mega-platform see-through heels.

Doja Cat and Beka Gvishiani at The Mark Hotel before the 2024 Met Gala: "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024 in New York, New York.

Doja Cat wearing a towel dress, wrap-up towel headpiece, and ultra-platform pumps ahead of the Met Gala 2024.

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To complement (or, in this case, contrast) her towel dress, Doja Cat wore the same sparkling Jacob & Co. diamond jewelry. Equally as striking as her terrycloth "gown" was her running eye makeup by Pat McGrath Labs, which drove home the just "thew on a towel" theme.

Doja Cat and Beka Gvishiani at The Mark Hotel before the 2024 Met Gala: "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024 in New York, New York.

Doja Cat and Guram Gvasalia, creative director of Vetements, at The Mark Hotel before the 2024 Met Gala.

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Guram Gvasalia, creative director of Vetements who made Doja's Met Gala looks, joined the musician when leaving The Mark Hotel.

Doja Cat and Beka Gvishiani at The Mark Hotel before the 2024 Met Gala: "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 6, 2024 in New York, New York.

A close-up look at Doja Cat's just-out-of-the-shower look.

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The singer has a history of rather, er, avant-garde Met Gala looks.

For last year's event, which honored Karl Lagerfeld, Doja Cat dressed up as the late designer's beloved cat Choupette. She wore an Oscar de la Renta look consisting of a sparking gown with an attached hood, cat ears, and a sweeping feathered train. Her Met Gala 2023 look took over 5,000 hours, including applying 350,000 silver and white bugle beads.

Doja Cat attends the 2023 Costume Institute Benefit celebrating "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 01, 2023 in New York City.

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While it might not make the list of most on-theme looks, Doja Cat's wet T-shirt and towel dress will go down in both meme and fashion history.

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Emma Childs
Fashion Features Editor

Emma is the fashion features editor at Marie Claire, where she explores the intersection of style and human interest storytelling. She covers viral styling tips—like TikTok's "Olsen Tuck" and Substack's "Shirt Sandwiches"—and has written dozens of runway-researched trend reports about the ready-to-wear silhouettes, shoes, bags, and colors to shop for each season. Above all, Emma enjoys connecting with real people to discuss all facets of fashion, from picking a designer's brain to speaking with stylists, entertainers, artists, and C-suite executives about how to find a personal style as you age and reconnect with your clothes postpartum.

Emma also wrote for The Zoe Report, Editorialist, Elite Daily, Bustle, and Mission Magazine. She studied Fashion Studies and New Media at Fordham University Lincoln Center and launched her own magazine, Childs Play Magazine, in 2015 as a creative pastime. When Emma isn't waxing poetic about niche fashion discourse on the internet, you'll find her stalking eBay for designer vintage, reading literary fiction on her Kindle, doing hot yoga, and "psspsspssp-ing" at bodega cats.