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Red carpet round table: The best and the worst of the Met Gala
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Now that fashion week, the Globes and the Oscars are all done, we’ve been starved for serious red carpet action for the past couple of months. Last night’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala in New York at least promised to give us fodder for red carpet punditry. The theme was American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity–the exhibit currently on at the Met’s Costume Institute and the most awaited guest of the evening was the American fashion force Lady Gaga. She didn’t show up on the red carpet and the result was a mostly-expected line-up of dresses. (Though even Gaga wore an Armani bodysuit that was near-identical to the one she wore at the Oscars, so yawn.) Diane Kruger’s blazingly white Calvin Klein was the clear winner of the evening, but Gap’s “collaborations” with Rodarte, Sophie Theallet, Thakoon and Alexander Wang were an almost universal disappointment.
After the jump, features director Leah Rumack, fashion market editor Sarah Casselman and I dish on the best, the worst and the most, um, interesting ensembles of the night.
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Leave it to Rumack (aka Messy Marvin) to be concerned about food droppings on Diane Kruger’s dress!
What do I always say about Marc Jacobs designing clothes that make grown women look like little girls who have gone through their grandma’s closets? Nicole Richie looked as if she was being digested by that dress!
I loved Marion Whatsherface’s dress and I would have loved Diane Kruger’s if it didn’t make her boobs look like they were about to make a break for it. In a few photos she had some overflow that caused an unnatural looking crease which might have been avoided with a slightly different foundation garment. It was strange.
Anyway, keep up the good work, girls. Meow!
Wow! That is the great moment for everyone to red round table. These events featured jousting, dancing, and feasting in the late night party.
Talented designers: Diane Kruger, very beautiful
very elegant dress, awesome