Lana Del Rey wore alligator hair clips in a nod to her husband Jeremy Dufrene, an alligator tour guide, at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday, May 5.

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey stunned on the Met Gala's blue carpet on a rainy Monday night in New York City, but her glamorous hairstyle gave a subtle nod to the Louisiana swamps where she met and married her husband, Jeremy Dufrene.

What was supposed to be a press interview focusing on Lana Del Rey’s return to the Met Gala morphed into a viral sensation for a completely unexpected reason: a handsome model that made the internet “thirsty.