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Conservators Aren’t Happy That Kim Kardashian Wore Marilyn’s Dress to the Met Gala

by Elaine Velie May 4, 2022May 5, 2022

“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

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 3, 2022May 3, 2022

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

by Sarah Rose Sharp March 20, 2022March 18, 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

by Valentina Di Liscia September 14, 2021September 16, 2021

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

by Valentina Di Liscia May 4, 2021May 5, 2021

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

by Elisa Wouk Almino May 5, 2020May 5, 2020

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?

by Kyle Turner May 6, 2019November 4, 2019

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

by Zachary Small October 10, 2018October 12, 2018

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.

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