“Solar Power” singer Lorde has expanded on her recent comments regarding her “gender broadening”, explaining at the 2025 Met Gala that she feels “like a man and a woman”.
Lorde made her fourth Met Gala appearance at last night’s event (5 May) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, arriving on the red carpet with a nearly-naked take on the Superfine: Tailoring Black Style theme.
The 28-year-old New Zealand-born singer donned a silver two-piece set created by luxury designer Thom Browne, featuring a vertically pleated maxi skirt and a floating bandeau top that appeared stuck to her chest.
She kept the rest of her look fairly simple, opting for a matching silver suit jacket held in her hand, and minimal silver jewellery.
On the Met Gala red carpet, Lorde chatted to influencer Emma Chamberlain about the inspiration for the look, explaining that it represented where she’s at “gender-wise”.
“This is custom Thom Browne, It’s kind of my creation. It’s something of an easter egg,” the two-time Grammy Award-winner shared.
“All will be revealed. I just love the open back. To me it represents where I’m at gender-wise. I feel like a man and a woman, you know?”
At the end of April, Lorde released “What Was That”, her first original single in four years. Last week she announced that her fourth album, entitled Virgin, will arrive on 27 June.
In conversation with artist Martine Syms for Document Journal, the musician explained that Virgin was inspired in-part by her “gender broadening a little bit” as she felt she was “coming into [her] masculinity”.
“I had come back from London to New York after this period of great turbulence in my personal life. Becoming single, but also really facing my body stuff head-on, and starting to feel my gender broadening a little bit,” she shared of the inspiration for “What Was That”.
“Just being back in my house and feeling this big wave of grief. I just kept thinking, What was all of that? Whether it was my seven-year relationship or a pandemic or sacrificing my body to my career since I was 16 or 17. This feeling of, Oh, my God, so much has moved through me. And there’s so much mystery and pain.”
In an email sent to her fans post announcing Virgin, Lorde wrote that she was “scared” of the album as she would be “putting the deepest parts” of herself into the music.
The singer added that she was “trying to make a document that reflected [her] femininity: raw, primal, innocent, elegant, openhearted, spiritual, masc”.
Lorde was one of many legendary hitmakers who appeared on the Met Gala 2025 red carpet, with the likes of Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Doechii, Doja Cat and Dua Lipa showing off their elegant garments.
Lorde’s “Girl, so confusing” collaborator Charli XCX arrived in gothic feathers and custom Ann Demeulemeester, while Diana Ross made her first Met Gala appearance in 22 years.
Rihanna arrived fashionably late to the red carpet, simultaneously revealing to the world that she is pregnant with her third child by rapper A$AP Rocky, who served as a co-chair at this year’s event.
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