This year’s Met Gala is on Monday, and I’m sure we will repeat this a bunch then, but in the hopes of it sticking even in MY brain: It’s another year with an exhibit theme and a slightly different dress code, though I’m sure the twain will meet. While the dress code is “Fashion Is Art,” the exhibit is built around “Costume Art,” and per the New York Times, that means:
[It] will argue that fashion — or what Andrew Bolton, the department’s curator in charge, called ‘the dressed body’ — is the common thread connecting every other gallery in the museum. […] As part of his concept, Mr. Bolton considered “Costume Art” through the lens of various kinds of bodies, including the “pregnant body,” the “corpulent body,” the “disabled body” and the “naked and nude body.”
Perhaps in order to avoid naked-dressing one-upmanship, the dress code this year is actually “Fashion Is Art.” What that means is open to interpretation .(even if it does seem a little on the nose for a museum gala).
The hosts, along with Anna of course, are Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman, and Beyonce — a woman who has not attended in a decade, and who provides the naked body in the above slideshow of her history at the Met. I’ve arranged it in chronological order rather than grouping them by wearer, so anytime any of them attended the same gala you can look directly at their different interpretations. We’ll do the larger committee next, but they get the premium titles, so they get the first slot.
[Photos: Mark Mainz, Evan Agostini, Stephen Lovekin, Larry Busacca, Dimitrios Kambouris, Andrew H. Walker, John Shearer/Getty Images, Marcel Thomas, Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic, Taylor Hill/WireImage, Fairchild Archive/Penske Media via Getty Images, TIMOTHY A. CLARY, ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images, Michael Buckner/WWD/Penske Media via Getty Images]
