This 12 months’s Met Gala is on Monday, and I’m certain we’ll repeat this a bunch then, however within the hopes of it sticking even in MY mind: It’s one other 12 months with an exhibit theme and a barely totally different gown code, although I’m certain the twain will meet. Whereas the gown code is “Trend Is Artwork,” the exhibit is constructed round “Costume Artwork,” and per the New York Times, that means:
[It] will argue that style — or what Andrew Bolton, the division’s curator in cost, known as ‘the dressed physique’ — is the widespread thread connecting each different gallery within the museum. […] As a part of his idea, Mr. Bolton thought of “Costume Artwork” via the lens of assorted sorts of our bodies, together with the “pregnant physique,” the “corpulent physique,” the “disabled physique” and the “bare and nude physique.”
Maybe as a way to keep away from naked-dressing one-upmanship, the gown code this 12 months is definitely “Trend Is Artwork.” What which means is open to interpretation .(even when it does appear just a little on the nostril for a museum gala).
The hosts, together with Anna after all, are Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman, and Beyonce — a lady who has not attended in a decade, and who supplies the bare physique within the above slideshow of her historical past on the Met. I’ve organized it in chronological order somewhat than grouping them by wearer, so anytime any of them attended the identical gala you possibly can look straight at their totally different interpretations. We’ll do the bigger committee subsequent, however they get the premium titles, in order that they get the primary slot.
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