The Monse luxury fashion brand, based out of New York City since being founded in 2015, held a Pre-Met Cocktail Celebration on the eve of ‘fashion’s biggest night.’
There were a number of celebrities and high-profile people on hand at La Mercerie in New York City on Sunday, including Brandon Thomas Lee, who arrived with girlfriend Lily Easton on his arm.
The actor, 27, who’s best known as the oldest son of actress Pamela Anderson and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee, showed off his fashion sense in a striking blue suit with a dress shirt and matching tie.
His lady, whom he started dating in October 2021, leaned in next to her man for a photo or two decked out in a black sheer dress that left little to imagination with its see-through design.
The unique number helped showcase her fab figure while also putting her undergarments on full display came complete with spaghetti straps, vertical bars along her midriff and thick strips down both sides.
Brandon Thomas Lee, 27, and girlfriend Lily Easton, 24, were among the guests at the Monse Maison Pre-Met Cocktail Celebration held at La Mercerie in New York City on Sunday
For one round of photos, Lee sat down in a chair while the Aussie influencer showed off her revealing dress as she rested her left arm on his right shoulder.
Working as an actor and producer, the Los Angeles native’s resume includes such films as Baywatch (2017), Sierra Burgess Is A Loser (2018) and Cosmic Sin (2021), according to IMDb.
The couple also got to spend time with Lee’s mother, who spent much of her time hanging out with Monse co-designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia.
The former Playboy Playmate and Baywatch star, 56, stepped out in an oversized white dress shirt with a short brown skirt with long silver strips or fringe hanging all around it and down her legs.
She also matched the skirt perfectly with brown pumps, while her blonde tresses were styled long, straight and off her face with subtle center part.
On this night, Anderson also opted to go makeup free once again, which is something she started last year as a new way to try and set new beauty standards.
‘I am much more comfortable in my own skin, but I also am in an industry that really focuses on beauty. And I thought, “I’m going to challenge beauty,”‘ she said of the choice to Today.com.
She continued, ‘I think challenging ourselves is what keeps us young and beautiful. And I think, really genuinely, beauty does come from within and you don’t have to play the game.’
Lee’s mother, actress Pamela Anderson, 56, stepped out in an oversized white dress shirt with a short brown skirt with long silver strips or fringe with brown pumps
The 1990s icon was also inspired to sans the makeup after her makeup artist, Alexis Vogel, died from breast cancer.
‘She was the best. And since then, I just felt, without Alexis, it’s just better for me not to wear makeup,’ she told Elle in August 2023.
Some of the high-profile guests to attend the Monse event include Doja Cat, Guram Gvasalia, Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sanchez, Sarah Harrelson, Tina Leung, Sai De Silva, Ezra J. William, Fernando Garcia, Laura Kim, Jennifer Fisher. Ezra J. William, Hiandra Martinez, Lineisy Montero, Merel Roggeveen and Amara Giselle, among many others.
A number of parties typically pop up during the weekend leading to the Met Gala, which is held annually on the first Monday of May, and is widely regarded as the world’s most prestigious and glamorous event.
Monday’s grand event includes a cocktail hour and a formal dinner. During the cocktail hour, guests arrive to walk on the red carpet, tour the year’s special themed exhibition, and be seated before the dinner party that includes entertainment from the preeminent entertainers of the day.
Anderson spend a lot of time chatting at the Monse Maison Pre-Met Cocktail Celebration with the fashion label’s co-designers Laura Kim and Fernando Garcia
The former Playboy Playmate and Baywatch star opted to go makeup free once again as a way to ‘challenge beauty’ standards, which is something she started to do last year
The Gala, also known as the Met Ball, is an annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum Of Art’s Costume Institute in Manhattan.
It will take place on Monday, May 6 and will celebrate the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.
Personalities who are perceived to be culturally relevant to contemporary society amongst various professional spheres, including fashion, film, television, music, theater, business, sports, social media and politics are invited to attend the Met Gala, organized by the fashion magazine Vogue.
Those VIP guests, who are personally invited, are expected to curate their fashions to match the theme of the annual exhibit, generally in haute couture.
