Damiano from Maneskin with Dove Cameron at the 2024 Met Gala

For D&D this time there was no need for paparazzi, tricks and stolen photos. Damiano and Dove, hand in hand, kisses and caresses for the camera and photographers attracted attention at the Met Gala in New York, the coolest event in the fashion system that brings together celebrities and fashion and a media chatter that lasts for days . If only because it was the couple’s second official outing together, with the red carpet highlighting a new love story that social media likes so much. The first occasion was the Grammys. If you hadn’t figured it out yet, he is Damiano David, the front man of Maneskin. Romano di Monteverde, much loved in Italy and abroad who has achieved incredible successes with his group in just a few years (5 million followers). She, Dove Cameron, is even more famous. Actress with 48 million followers, born in 1996, (three years older than Damiano) she owes her name to the nickname “Colomba” as her father called her. The credit for the great public success, however, goes to the TV series for Disney Channel Liv e Maddie. And more recently to the film Descendants in which she plays Mal, the daughter of Maleficent, who later turns into a princess. Like every fairy tale tells.

And also on the New York red carpet which, as usual, is staged on the first Monday in May and often acts as a springboard for new “high click rate” love stories, Damiano and Dove dressed like two true protagonists of a contemporary fairy tale. Black tuxedo for him, strictly with nothing underneath apart from the showy tattoos; Powder colored tulle dress for her covered with little pink flowers applied. Dress code spot on. Theme of the evening: flowers and decay per The Garden of Time, inspired by the short novel of the same name by JG Ballard, protagonist of the Met exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.

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Of course, the happy ending for this magazine fairy tale (to use a slightly old-fashioned term) is not a given. Given that the two have already done and undone several times in terms of relationships. Where she was engaged to her colleague Ryan McCartan with whom he acted together and then with Thomas Doherty, He is also an actor among the protagonists of the TV series Gossip girl. Damiano David, on the other hand, for years was the soul mate of Giorgia Soleri, influencer and activist above all for having brought vulvodynia into the open, a disease from which she suffers. Six years of love and then a beautiful photo “snatched” to tell of Damiano’s smooch with another woman. Thus forcing the two to publicize the end of the relationship.

This all happened last year, in the middle of summer. The gossip instead of a love story between Dove and Cameron began last autumn. As usual, she thought of a shot: him and her leaving together at the Espaco Unimed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the dead of night and with the Maneskin concert over. However, their first kiss was immortalized not by a photographer but by a fan stationed in the lounges of a nightclub in Los Angeles. Here too, same scene: afterparty with cuddles and smooches.