It’s All Greek to Us! After a Met Gala Debut, Di Petsa Celebrated at Selene in SoHo

Reported by Vogue.

The Met Gala hangover is real — but Di Petsa had a better cure than most. Days after her label's debut on fashion's biggest night, London-based designer Dimitra Petsa traded the red carpet for a long table, partnering with soon-to-open SoHo restaurant Selene for an extravagant Friday feast that felt less like a press moment and more like a genuine celebration.

The alignment was deliberate. "I liked the idea that this was my first Met Gala and this is their first dinner, so it's all of the firsts," Petsa told Vogue during cocktail hour. The Mediterranean menu was equally intentional — a nod to her Greek heritage and a natural extension of a brand whose identity runs deeper than its signature silhouette. That silhouette, for the uninitiated: hand-draped, body-conscious "wet look" pieces — the same ones worn by Ashley Graham and Laura Harrier at the Gala — that looked almost sculptural against Selene's geometric interior.

Fashion as Art, Dinner as Ritual

Petsa's Met moment carried extra weight this year. Her work appeared not just on the carpet but inside the museum's new Costume Art exhibit — a full-circle moment for a designer who studied fine art before pivoting to fashion. "The Met Gala is like the Olympics of fashion," she said, adding that the Fashion is Art theme felt like "serendipity" given her academic background. When the universe hands you a theme that mirrors your entire creative philosophy, you show up — and then you throw a dinner party.

And what a dinner. Guests moved from cocktails into a spread that included homemade pita with hummus, taramasalata, and whipped red pepper dip; hamachi and tavraki crudos; tuna tartare; caviar-topped tiropita; grilled octopus; and Greek salad — and that was just the opening act. According to Vogue, the table included a crowd that ranged from model and influencer Eva Gutowski to designer and size-inclusivity advocate Lauren Chan, all of them doing exactly what Petsa had envisioned. "You're nourishing people, you're talking to people, you're actually getting to know them," she said of the format — which, in an era of velvet-rope fashion events built around content capture, felt refreshingly human.

Di Petsa's post-Gala dinner wasn't an afterthought — it was the thesis statement: that clothes, culture, and community belong at the same table.

Read the original at Vogue.