Zendaya turned a classic fairytale into reality with an unforgettable performance on the Met Gala’s pink carpet. The Greatest Showman actor attended the star-studded event on Monday night looking exactly like Disney’s Cinderella in a bold blue gown designed by Tommy Hilfiger. As she arrived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Zendaya’s stylist, Law Roach – who was incidentally dressed as her fairygodfather – began waving a wand that emitted dramatic wisps of smoke. Moments later, the 22-year-old’s dress slowly began to light up from top-to-toe. Speaking to Vogue, Roach said that Zendaya’s look was created to reflect her own career evolution from the Disney Channel to her latest endeavour Euphoria, a teen drama which is set to debut in June. Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Show all 103 1 /103 Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Lady Gaga Gaga wore not one but four outfits for the event, designed by friend and former stylist Brandon Maxwell. Unveiling her outfit layer by layer, Gaga showed off a hot pink dress, which layered over a black strapless dress, a pink skintight ensemble, and then a sheer pair of bejewelled fishnet tights and underwear. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Lady Gaga Gaga's second look for the evening. Getty Images for The Met Museum/ Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Lady Gaga The singer's third ensemble of the night. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Lady Gaga And the grand finale. Getty Images for The Met Museum/ Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Cara Delevingne The British model opted for a sheer rainbow-striped playsuit by Dior for the 2019 Met Gala. The 26-year-old finished the look with a Swarovski cane, platform heels and a dramatic headpiece that featured everything from bananas and false teeth to a fried egg. Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Cardi B Cardi B arrived on the Met Gala pink carpet wearing a dramatic red gown that took 35 people more than 2,000 hours to make. The dress, which was designed by Thom Browne, was also decorated with 30,000 burnt and dyed coque feathers. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner Newlyweds Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner wore co-ordinating outfits to the Met Gala, both opting for colourful Louis Vuitton looks. Jonas sported a graphic roll neck top and trousers while Turner wore a sequin jumpsuit and black heels. REUTERS Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Donatella Versace The Italian fashion designer wore a neon green gown that featured the words "divine" and "more" in sparkling pink sequins. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Dua Lipa The British singer attended the Met Gala for the very first time wearing a multi-coloured Versace gown and matching boots. Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks RuPaul RuPaul walked the Met Gala's pink carpet in an eye-catching pink and black zebra-stripped suit. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Regina King The If Beale Street Could Talk star wore a shimmering gold Oscar de la Renta gown with a large ruffle detail down the side. King revealed that her dress was inspired in part by the fictional character Dominque Deveraux from ABC’s soap opera Dynasty. PA Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Tessa Thompson The Creed actor opted for a Chanel look from the autumn/winter 2016 couture show. The actor wore her hair as a whip that was several feet long. Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Serena Williams The tennis champion attended the event, which she co-hosted, wearing a neon yellow gown designed by Versace and matching Nike trainers. PA Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Chloe Grace Moretz The American actor attended the event wearing a giant-collared Louis Vuitton mini-dress and curled hair. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Mindy Kaling Kaling wore a gold sequinned gown and dyed her hair an icy blonde shade to match. REUTERS Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Kelela The singer wore a Paco Rabanne chain mail dress to this year’s Met Gala. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Nicki Minaj The American rapper opted for a pale pink gown with crystals designed by Prabal Gurung. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Irina Shayk The Russian model wore a plunging velvet Burberry gown designed by Riccardo Tisci. The navy blue dress featured built in gloves along with a cluster of jewels adorning the front and back. Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Jennifer Lopez The singer and actor opted for a silver fringe beaded Versace dress featuring a thigh-high slit and plunging neckline. She teamed the look with a matching fringe headpiece. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Zendaya The Greatest Showman star dressed up as Disney's Cinderella for the 2019 Met Gala. The actor wore a bold blue gown by Tommy Hilfiger which, after a wave of her stylist Law Roach’s wand, began to light up. True to the fairytale's plot, Zendaya also left her glass shoe on the pink carpet. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Laverne Cox Cox stunned in an oversized black dress with a train designed by Christian Siriano. She teamed the look with pale turquoise hair. Getty Images for The Met Museum/ Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Hailee Steinfeld The American singer and actor wore a Viktor & Rolfe gown that was emblazoned with the words "No Photos Please". Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Lupita Nyong'o The Us actor wore a multi-coloured dress that featured a sheer sparkly gown and rainbow wings. She accessorised the look with gold Afro picks in her hair and a giant fan. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Cody Fern American Horror Story actor Cody Fern wore a beige trouser suit complete with a sheer shirt, black gloves and bright blue cowboy boots PA Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Ella Balinska The British actor made her Met Gala debut in a voluminous silver gown with pleated ruffles by Tory Burch. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Hari Nef Gucci muse Hari Nef wore a Gen-Z Yellow dress designed by creative director Alessandro Michele for the event. Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Penelope Cruz The Spanish actor wore a vintage black and white Chanel gown from French fashion the house’s Spring 1987 Couture collection. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Ezra Miller The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them star concealed his face at the Met Gala with a mask on a stick. Miller went on to bare his true identity, revealing that his face had been painted with five optical-illusion eyeballs. He wore a pinstripe Burberry suit that featured a long train and a pearl corset. Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Richard Madden The Bodyguard actor wore an all-black draped tuxedo from Dior Men’s Fall 2019 show. REUTERS Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Solange Knowles The singer opted for a python bodysuit and matching thigh-high boots by Salvatore Ferragamo. Getty/The Met Museum/Vogue Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Emily Blunt Blunt wore a gold sequinned gown designed by Michael Kors. The whole look comprised 510,000 sequins and 1,344 gold crystals. PA Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Harry Styles and Alessandro Michele Styles and the Gucci creative director wore matching Gucci for the night. The singer wore a black pussy-bow blouse, black trousers, and a single pearl earring, designed by Michele. Meanwhile, the fashion designer chose a pink ruffled suit and jewelled headband for the occasion. Getty Images Met Gala 2019: Best red carpet looks Ciara The singer attended the event wearing a beaded emerald Dundas gown with a feathered train and matching gloves.<doc-sep>One of our favourite things about the annual Met Gala is the way that the attendees go above and beyond with their fashion choices; this is not an arena where it's acceptable to play it safe (case in point - Lady Gaga's four-outfit strip tease). One of the most show-stopping moments at the 2019 Met Gala came courtesy of Zendaya, who arrived dressed as Cinderella. Her Tommy Hilfiger gown featured a powder blue tulle overlay, corseted bodice and exaggerated sleeves, as with the beloved Disney original. The singer also wore her hair in a similar style, complete with blue headband and simple black choker. But, elegant dress aside, Zendaya gave us some red carpet magic when she walked the red carpet with her stylist Law Roach, who was dressed as the Fairy Godmother. As Roach waved a magic 'wand', which had smoke streaming out of it, Zendaya's gown began to twinkle in front of the cameras and slowly light up from the bottom. Taylor Hill Getty Images Dimitrios Kambouris Getty Images Several seconds later and her ball gown was illuminated from top to toe. ANGELA WEISS Getty Images As she departed the red carpet, she left behind a single glass slipper. Gotham Getty Images ANGELA WEISS Getty Images This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io<doc-sep>Zendaya‘s no stranger to knowing what it takes to really stand out on the Met Gala red carpet, an impressive feat when you consider that the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Benefit is widely known as “fashion’s biggest night.” In the past, the actress has been spotted in a chain mail, Joan of Arc-inspired gown and a voluminous yellow Dolce & Gabbana gown that was so show-stopping that it earned the approval of ultimate Met Gala doyenne, Rihanna. This year, however, Zendaya upped the ante by really leaning into the night’s theme, “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” The theme, which was inspired by Susan Sontag’s iconic 1964 essay: Notes on “Camp”, was an open challenge for the night’s celebrity guests to show up in their most quirky and outrageous looks and Zendaya did not disappoint. Sporting a glowing, Cinderella-esque gown designed by Tommy Hilfiger, and accompanied by a charming companion, her stylist Law Roach, she not only embodied the event’s theme with vim, she effectively commanded plenty of the attention on the red carpet. She did actual magic tricks. With the wave of a wand, her dress transformed. She even left a glass slipper. Spellbound. Zendaya attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images) Jason Kempin&Getty Images Get The Brief. 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Celebrities went all-out for tonight's Met Gala—as expected, given the theme, "Camp: Notes on Fashion." The looks ranged from bold and outrageous to very literal. There was Lady Gaga, the night's cochair, with her multiple outfit changes; Katy Perry, cosplaying as a chandelier; oh, and Zendaya, who decided to show up to the red carpet as Cinderella. Yup, the Spider-Man actress went back to her Disney roots, sort of, wearing a powder-blue princess gown custom-made for her by Tommy Hilfiger, a blond updo, and matching pastel makeup. And she leaned heavily into the theme. First off, Zendaya walked the red carpet with Law Roach, her longtime stylist and "image architect," who played the part of fairy godparent, literally waving a wand that created fairy dust. Don't believe me? There are GIFs, people! This is... Disney magic! Zendaya even committed to the "lose a slipper" part of Cinderella's story, leaving one of her shoes on the Met steps. A thespian! This is Zendaya's fifth Met Gala. She's typically good at sticking to the theme, but this method approach to Cinderella takes things to a whole new level. She should be recruited as a cochair next year's gala, and the theme should be Disney. I need to see Lady Gaga shimmy up the Met steps in an Ariel fin. Emma Watson could reprise her role as Belle. The possibilities are endless! But back to Zendaya's look. Did I mention it literally lit up? Behold, this Disney-by-Tommy magic. Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Tommy Hilfiger and Zendaya have been collaborating for a while now. In March she unveiled her first TommyNow capsule, which garnered great reviews for its inclusive fashion show. Another collection is expected to drop in the fall.