Who designed Sarah Jessica Parker’s black-and-white gown for the 2014 Met Gala?

Oscar de la Renta designed Sarah Jessica Parker’s black-and-white gown for the 2014 Met Gala.

Parker wore the dramatic strapless ball gown to the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute benefit. Its black-and-white design featured a full skirt and a long train decorated with pink script spelling out the designer’s name, making the collaboration unusually visible on the red carpet.

The 2014 gala honored Charles James, the British-American couturier known for sculptural evening dresses and technically elaborate ball gowns. Parker’s voluminous silhouette echoed that formal tradition while remaining unmistakably theatrical.

The event was especially notable because Parker and de la Renta had a long public relationship as designer and client. The gown is sometimes remembered simply as a “Sarah Jessica Parker dress,” but the credited fashion house was Oscar de la Renta. The designer died later in 2014, several months after the gala.