Met Gala 2024: Maria Sharapova Feels Like She’s in a ‘Fairytale’ as She Breaks Personal Style to Try On Something New

Renowned former tennis player Maria Sharapova has been inspiring her fans with her incredible fashion sense. From her conversation-starter on-court looks to her bold red-carpet presence, Sharapova surely knows how to attract all the spotlight. However, at this year’s Met Gala, Sharapova took her fashion game a bit further to channel her inner princess while compromising with her comfort. Excited to wear “anything that brings more excitement and attention to tennis”, this tennis legend presents a beautiful style statement for the generation.

The former world’s number-one tennis star attended the exclusive Met Gala 2024 event in a beautiful Prabal Gurung gown that was inspired by both the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion Exhibition of the MOMA and the event’s dress code Garden of Time. To quote Sharapova – “the perfect dress for an occasion like the Met Gala, where you can do a little bit more and it’s the ultimate place to play dress-up. It’s somewhat of a fairytale, especially if you’re leaning into the theme of the occasion. So I feel like with the color and the shape of the dress—and there’s a lot of it, which I rarely do—it’ll be really fun to play with.” 

Sharapova, who has been a fashion icon parallel to her tennis glory revealed how she came out of her comfort zone to wear the dual yellow-shaded gown. She said-“I usually prefer neutral tones in my everyday life, so it’s nice to explore different colors and wear something that’s unusual and things that you don’t expect from yourself,”

On the other hand, speaking about Sharapova’s glamorous Met Gala 2024 dress, her designer Prabal Gurung said to Town & County magazine– “I wanted to blend the ideas of sleeping beauty and the garden of time, combining the delicateness and floral elements into a couture gown, The design was inspired by the brightness and softness of flowers blooming and bringing new life, while leaning into that delicate nature and using natural organic cotton from Boll & Branch to really tie into the theme of reawakening fashion. Deconstructing the cotton into strips was almost like pulling the petals off of a flower and reassembling them to create something new.”

Highlighting her epic look with Chopard jewelry, Sharapova was all praise about Gurung’s incredible work for her at the Met Gala 2024. She said- “Prabal has designed such beautiful pieces for the Met Gala in previous years, so it felt like a very natural choice and very much in theme with this year’s Met Gala, which is all about reawakening and flowers and the forest. While the theme has a fairytale like aspect to it, it is also about gardens, florals, and our earth.” 

While Sharapova impressed the whole fraternity with her latest Met Gala look, she took time to have a nostalgic tour of her iconic looks from the event earlier.

Nostalgic Maria Sharapova revisits her old and iconic Met Gala looks

Much like her this year’s Met Gala look, Sharapova received compliments for her previous looks from the event. In fact, the former tennis legend recently shared three of her styles from the year 2016 to 2021 on her official Instagram profile story and delighted fans’ hearts. In her first story, fans spotted Sharapova’s iconic look in a golden Gabriela Hearst gown in 2021 complementing that year’s theme Manus x Machine: Fashion in an Age of Technology.

In the next story, Sharapova shared her Givenchy Haute Couture look in 2019. It was an ode to that year’s theme camp: Notes on Fashion. Finally, fans spotted her debut Met Gala look in 2016, where she donned a body-hugging iconic red dress by Juan Carlos Obando following the theme In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.

Maria Sharapova’s recent Met Gala look surely tells about her enhanced fashion game compared to her old looks. Not only did she challenge her comfort zone but she successfully complimented the theme which felt was about “reawakening and flowers and the forest,”