“Wearing historic clothing damages it. Full stop,” said the former head of conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, Sarah Scaturro.
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The Most Memeable Looks From a Dystopian Met Gala
It was glamorous! It was glitzy! It was the end of democracy as we know it!
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With the World on Fire, the Glitterati Prepares for Met Gala 2022
“In America: An Anthology of Fashion” follows last year’s theme “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.” Confused? So are we.
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The Best Thing About This Year’s Met Gala Are the Memes
The Met Gala moved forward last night with the laughably dystopian theme of “American Independence.”
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Artist’s Vaccine-Inspired Met Gala Dress Is a Tribute to Science
Brendan McCann’s gown features a skirt made of giant vaccination cards, a needle headpiece, and a “FAUCI” purse filled with donuts.
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Internet Stages Its Own Met Gala, Recreating Iconic Outfits at Home
Though the famed gala was canceled, people celebrated online with their own ingenious outfits made from newspaper, Q-tips, and more.
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Is Camp Still Camp if the Met Gala Makes It a Theme?
This year’s Met Gala is named Notes on Fashion, in tribute to a Susan Sontag essay. But Sontag also wrote that “To talk about Camp is to betray it.”
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Shifting From Catholicism to Camp, Met Gala Tries to Update Susan Sontag
This exhibition should feature a wax replica of Donatella Versace, RuPaul’s extensive collection of wigs, and a sliver of John Waters’ mustache — but I fear the Met’s exhibition will be business as usual.