This Year’s Met Gala Carpet Came From Kerala & Outdressed Half The Guest List

By Lara Kramer  •  07 May 2025 in News

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The Met Gala 2025 served up its usual spectacle of sequins, silhouettes, and serious fashion flexes.

But while celebrities were turning heads, a slice of India was quietly stealing the show beneath their designer shoes. That regal blue carpet everyone posed on? It came straight from Alleppey, Kerala.

Crafted by Neytt, a luxury carpet brand rooted in a 106-year-old weaving legacy, the Met Gala’s floor covering featured a rich royal blue base dotted with hand-painted golden daffodils. Neytt, however, is not taking credit for the florals. The brand provided a pristine white rug that was later transformed by the Met Gala’s in-house design team. Still, the canvas was theirs, and they have every reason to be proud.

This year marked Neytt’s third time supplying carpets to fashion’s biggest night. In a behind-the-scenes Instagram post on 6 May, the brand wrote, “No big deal, just our rug at The Met, again!” and credited their team as the unsung heroes behind the masterpiece. It was far from a humblebrag. This was a moment of quiet triumph for a homegrown label with global ambition.

 

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Co-founded by Sivan Santhosh and his wife Nimisha, Neytt is the sustainable spin-off of Extraweave, a company started by Sivan’s father in 2000.

The family’s weaving roots, however, stretch back to 1917. Neytt focuses on creating high-end rugs from eco-conscious materials like sisal, lyocell, and linen, and has worked with design giants such as IKEA and Ralph Lauren Home.

Their journey to the Met Gala started with a US-based client, Fibreworks, which tapped Neytt for a massive custom order. For the 2023 Gala, they produced 58 rolls of sisal carpet, each 30 metres by 4 metres, totalling nearly 7,000 square metres. It took their team 60 days to complete. The carpet was then shipped to New York where the Met’s creative team gave it the final artistic flourish.

From Kerala’s coastal looms to the flashbulbs of Fifth Avenue, Neytt has proved once again that true luxury is woven with care, heritage, and a whole lot of quiet confidence.

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