Fashion's Big Night, the 2022 Met Gala How It Happened
We see dazzling outfits, intricate embroidery, and gilded gold as guests interpret the theme in golden light. Both men and women wore corsets, and with them came padded thighs, trailing fur, and puffed sleeves reminiscent of exaggerated silhouettes from the late 18th century.
Some important points:
Kim Kardashian declared herself Marilyn Monroe. At least for a moment, looking at the original million-dollar gown Monroe wore when she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President."
Jared Leto's drama occurs when fashionable "mystery man" Fredrik Robertson appears in dramatic numbers reminiscent of Leto's experimental outfits from the red carpet past and is briefly mistaken for an actor.
And the engagement ended that evening when New York City's Commissioner for Cultural Affairs Lori Cambo accepted a proposal from her partner Bobby Digi Olisa. The Metropolitan Museum of Art called it "an amazing moment on an amazing night."
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Politics personal, contemporary, and historical came to the fore on Monday night on New York's Upper East Side as 600 guests celebrating America's golden era at the Met Gala shared their views on style and its many meanings. Presented the dress; it used to be as it is now.
Singer Alicia Keys wears a robe celebrating the history of unity in New York. New York Mayor Eric Adams, who says he's been itching to raise funds for years, arrived on the red carpet in a jacket with decorative sleeves and collars that paid homage to the city's mass transit system. "Ceasefire Violence" was written in red on the back of his coat. But the celebration of women's progress towards equality came when it was announced that the US Supreme Court had temporarily voted to retain Rowe v. Wade, a landmark decision that will legalize abortion across the country, according to a draft Politico statement.
The politics of the event returned when Kim Kardashian appeared on the red carpet in the iconic dress worn by Marilyn Monroe to celebrate President Kennedy's Birthday in 1962.
Wearing a lush idol mustache and gold tiara, Hamish Bowles, Editor of World of Interiors, said: "Tonight our hearts go out to the Ukrainian people and the victims of war and refugees around the world. The publisher, the main sponsor of the event, donated to the Red Cross and encouraged "those who can too."