{"id":773772,"date":"2026-05-05T00:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T00:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T00:57:18","slug":"dwayne-johnson-wears-skirt-to-met-gala-masculine-men-wear-skirts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/773772\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson Wears Skirt to Met Gala: &#8216;Masculine Men Wear Skirts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/dwayne-johnson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dwayne-johnson\" data-tag=\"dwayne-johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dwayne Johnson<\/a> rocked a black mohair tailcoat and a bow tie paired with a matching pleated skirt as he walked down the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/met-gala\/\" id=\"auto-tag_met-gala\" data-tag=\"met-gala\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Met Gala<\/a> red carpet hand-in-hand with his wife, Lauren Hashian. When asked about the look, which was custom-made by designer Thom Browne, Johnson said it was in part inspired by Polynesian culture, in which the \u201cmost masculine men\u201d wear skirts. The tailcoat featured over 350 meters of hand-pleated silk ribbons in a \u201cskeletal composition,\u201d according to the designer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI feel great!\u201d Johnson said when asked by journalists about how it feels to wear a skirt. \u201cFirst, [Thom Browne\u2019s team] sent the illustrations over and [asked], \u2018Hey, is Deej going to be cool with this pleated skirt?\u2019 And I was like, \u2018Look, in our culture, Polynesian culture, we rock lavalavas, we rock skirts.\u2019 The most masculine men, not that I\u2019m one of them, but the most masculine men wear lavalavas and skirts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-variety-2020\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.gif\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2274535448.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"1024\" width=\"683\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tDwayne Johnson attends the 2026 Met Gala in a Thom Browne skirt over trousers<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGetty Images for The Met Museum\/<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThis isn\u2019t the first time Johnson has spoken out about masculinity. At CinemaCon 2026, while promoting Disney\u2019s live-action \u201cMoana,\u201d he said \u201creal masculinity\u201d for men of all ages means empowering the women in their lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe hero of our story is not a princess. She\u2019s a warrior,\u201d <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/dwayne-johnson-masculinity-moana-cinemacon-footage-1236719811\/\">Johnson told a CinemaCon crowd<\/a>, adding that his role as Maui is to guide and empower the titular heroine. \u201cAll men of all ages, we should empower and support and champion all women. That\u2019s what real masculinity looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe 2026 Met Gala theme is \u201cFashion is Art.\u201d Beyonc\u00e9 is co-chairing this year\u2019s event along with Nicole Kidman, Venue Williams and Anna Wintour. Anthony Vaccarello and Zo\u00eb Kravitz are heading the gala host committee, which also includes Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Lisa, newly installed head of editorial content of Vogue U.S. Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A\u2019ja Wilson and Yseult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson rocked a black mohair tailcoat and a bow tie paired with a matching pleated skirt as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":773773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,60990,171,10569,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-773772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-met-gala","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116519256923551350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}