Austin Butler was crowned king of the red carpet at the Met Gala 2022

We can't help falling in Burning Love with the hottest Hound Dog in town, Austin Butler. 

Last night, the 30-year-old actor, who is playing the title role in Baz Luhrmann's big budget Elvis Presley biopic, arrived on the Met Gala's storied red carpet wearing head-to-toe Prada, and he looked every but the modern American monarch. 

The actor's deceptively simple look consisted of a heavyweight black guayabera shirt tucked into a pair of slim cut black grain de poudré trousers. On his feet were a pair of meaty black equestrian boots (which wouldn't have looked out of place on the feet of Elvis himself) and around his neck was a slick silk scarf, elevated with the addition of a jewel-encrusted pin.

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It's not the first time Mr Kaia Gerber has unwittingly owned the red carpet, of course. Austin Butler has made a bit of a thing out of slim-cut black tailoring in recent years, opting for a range of closely-tailored Prada looks (he was the star of the Milanese super-brand's SS/20 campaign alongside Frank Ocean and Nicolas Winding Refn), and he clearly knows what looks good on him. 

The reason Butler's Met Gala look was such a success, however, was really thanks to his surgically close attention to the details. Sure, he's aware of the optimum silhouette to suit his lithe frame (and it's no secret that black works on pretty much everyone) but the intelligence of fabric interplay found throughout the look – from the perfect weight of the shirt fabric, to the elegant sheen of the scarf against the light-absorbing shirt – offered a welcome understated counterpoint to a number of the showier looks. 

It helped too that Butler turned up with a killer tan, of course, and that his perfectly tousled, off-blonde tresses were styled to within in an inch of their follicular lives. Kaia Gerber - bedecked in regal McQueen - also made a more than worthy arm mate - and the subtle addition of a silver chain necklace beneath the collar of his shirt helped accentuate the bronzed sheen of his skin, as did the multiple rings adorning his fingers. 

Rumour has it that Butler was speaking in his best Elvis Presley voice for the entirety of the evening. Perhaps he was doing the method thing and was still in character, or maybe he's realised that the whole “King” thing works for him. Either way, it's a mood. “Making all the people that love Elvis proud was really at the core of it for me.” Said Butler on the red carpet. "I just set out to find his humanity as much as I could."

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