Pete Davidson’s Karl Lagerfeld Tribute at Met Gala 2023 Is Cool AF

“If you’re gonna wear a dress,” the comedian told GQ, “what better way or place to do it than the Met, you know? I’m really excited and really stoked that they thought I could pull this off, which is hilarious.”

On the 2021 Met Gala red carpet, he joked with reporters about his “little slutty nun” outfit and said he was wearing sunglasses so the other celebrities couldn’t see him staring at them.

Last year, however, he ditched the shades and picked a classic slim-cut black suit by Dior, the better to provide an assist to then-girlfriend Kim Kardashian, who stunned but angered the Internet when she showed up in the Bob Mackie-designed, Jean Louis-crafted beaded gown that Marilyn Monroe had to be sewn into in May 1962 to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy. 

After he and Kim broke up, Davidson was briefly linked to Emily Ratajkowski before pairing off with Wonders.

“I’m not, like, flexing, you know what I mean?” the 29-year-old said on the April 4 episode of Jon Bernthal‘s Real Ones podcast, reflecting on his already-storied romance history. “And these people that I’ve dated, I met them at work. I wasn’t in anyone’s DMs, no one was in mine. I worked at one of the five Hollywood epicenters of where you meet people and that’s how it happened.”

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