“Challengers” star Mike Faist dons a bedazzled veggie to the 2024 Met Gala

Too bad it wasn't a churro.

Mike Faist is proof that there's more than one interpretation of a garden.

The Challengers star (and newly minted, unofficial churro spokesman) wore a bedazzled turnip on the lapel of his 2024 Met Gala look on Monday night. The dress code for the event was "The Garden of Time," tied to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's latest exhibition, "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion."

Most stars in attendance at the annual fete interpreted the brief as a garden of the floral variety — like Kerry Washington, Colman Domingo, Ayo Edebiri, Amanda Seyfried, and Lily James, for example — or didn't understand the assignment at all (we shan't name names).

But, Faist appears to be the only one who went full vegetable garden chic. The fun accessory certainly stood out on the carpet, as well as on Faist's ensemble as a whole, which was more subdued otherwise. Faist wore a black Loewe tuxedo jacket and white shirt with off-white pants and round-toed black shoes.

Faist, who was joined by Challengers costars Zendaya and Josh O'Connor at the event, kept it all in the Challengers family with his look. Jonathan Anderson, Loewe's creative director, was also the costume designer for the lusty tennis movie.

The Met Gala serves to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, all the while giving celebrities a chance to live out their wildest haute couture dreams. This year's gala was co-chaired by Anna Wintour, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, and Zendaya.

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