This year’s Met Gala, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featured some of today’s biggest stars, but it wasn’t all glamorous with this year’s enchanting garden theme.
To understand my Best Dressed and Worst Dressed lists, please know that Fashion Notes readers were asked to keep this year’s theme in mind when choosing their looks.
J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story garden of time It was the backdrop for an evening intended to coincide with the Costume Institute exhibition. Sleeping Beauty: Awakening Fashion.
The ballad’s story is about an earl and a countess who spend their time in a palatial mansion surrounded by gardens. As the mob approaches, the Count plucks the Flower of Time from the garden and rewinds time. But in the end, when the last flowers are picked, the Earl and Countess are left with nothing but a statue in their honor.
Including the clockwork element, some Met Gala arrivals were a huge success, while others’ timing was off.
Best Dressed Award: Elle Fanning of Balmain
Elle Fanning was my best dressed of the night sleeping beauty Olivier Rousteing’s wonders at Balmain.
The organza bustier is covered in four layers of resin, creating a trompe l’oeil glass effect. The gown itself appears to be supported by two birds carved in resin. This is a kind of magic that only princesses can summon.
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Worst Dressed: Lana Del Rey in Alexander McQueen
Alexander McQueen’s new creative director Sean McGirr envisions the late Lee McQueen’s Lana Del Rey look 47“The Widow of Culloden” from the fall 2006 collection worn by Raquel Zimmerman. An unforgettable look with couture-like construction.
McGill delivered Lana a mosquito net propped up on tree branches, horse-hoof boots (yes, I’m not exaggerating), and an ill-fitting flesh-colored dress. Oh, and Lana is holding a rose because…well, it’s a garden party.
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(Gotham/Getty Images)
Best Dressed Award: Tom Ford (Saint Laurent)
Tom Ford was once the creative director of Yves Saint Laurent, bringing his sex cell aesthetic to the Parisian house. Now at the helm is Anthony Vaccarello, who decided to dress Ford that night in this red velvet tuxedo jacket that was reminiscent of Ford’s velvet jacket. Worn once While bowing at the end of the Saint Laurent show.
It’s all very meta in the chicest way.
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(Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Worst Dressed: Jennifer Lopez of Schiaparelli
How many times do we have to see JLo in the same dress, the same updo, the same grimace, the same makeup, the same heels?
She should save time and money and wear this Schiaparelli dress on every red carpet from now on. Then she’ll probably appear on my best-dressed list.
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Best Dressed and Worst Dressed: Zendaya in Maison Margiela by John Galliano
If things end up on the best and worst list, it’s a sign that something is wrong. So Okay, I might be wrong about that.
Such is the case with John Galliano’s Maison Margiela Artisanal dress for Zendaya. Of the duchess’ satin corset dress, Galliano says: his job From Christian Dior’s Spring 1999 Haute Couture collection.
Iridescent embellishments, bias-cut shapes in sage glitter and organza, and hand-painted elements are a dreamy homage to the works of Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dali.
But when I first saw this ensemble, my inner monologue insisted that this was a high school fashion show scourge by a student who was stupider and more intelligent than he realized. .
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Worst Dressed: Michelle Yeoh of Balenciaga
Hershey Kisses were better.
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(Dimitrios Cambris/Getty Images for the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Vogue)
Best Dressed: Chloe Sevigny (Dilara Findukor)
I already know that *this* is one look on my best dressed list that will get raved about, but let me explain. Knowing Chloe Sevigny’s It Girl style means not only loving it, but becoming its cult following. She takes streetwear to new heights and maintains a sense of self rarely seen in the world of Hollywood stylists and trends.
With Dilara Fındıkoğlu’s busted-up Marie Antoinette look, Sevigny took iconography and deconstructed it to create something new, albeit girlish and bizarre. Her numbers are all made from old Victorian clothing, and the skirts are decorated with flowers made from synthetic hair.
Who else could do such strange girlish things with a smile?!
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Worst outfit: Doja Cat in Vetements.
This worst-dressed feature captures everything I’ve come to despise about today’s Met Gala.
What was once an exclusive party reserved for fashion insiders and museum donors (the only ball where Melania Trump and the Olsen Twins appeared on the same red carpet!) is now a social gathering of B-list celebrities. It became a shocking circus of media clicks.
Case in point: Doja Cat in a soaking wet Vetements T-shirt.
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(Taylor Hill/Getty Images)
Best Dressed: Kylie Jenner at Oscar de la Renta
This is the first time Kylie Jenner has made it onto my best-dressed list, and it’s no surprise. In this ivory satin dress by Oscar de la Renta, Jenner evokes the glamor of Hollywood’s past, when stars were stars.
A single rose in her hair is all these beauties need.
(Dimitrios Cambris/Getty Images for the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Vogue)
(Dimitrios Cambris/Getty Images for the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Vogue)
Worst Dressed: Kim Kardashian in Maison Margiela
Kim Kardashian wearing a Maison Margiela design by John Galliano is hard to put on my worst-dressed list because there are aspects of her that I like. For example, I love Galliano. References His days at Dior – this time for the fall 1997 haute couture collection – and Kim’s even cinched waist are a sight to behold.
At the same time, we want to know why she’s clutching that pilly cropped cardigan and why her butt has to be cartoonishly emphasized.
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Best Dressed Award: Nicole Kidman (Balenciaga)
Last on my best-dressed list is Nicole Kidman in this Balenciaga dress, a recreation of the Cristóbal Balenciaga original from 1951. The original gown was worn by fashion model icon Dorian Leigh. photo taken by the equally iconic Richard Avedon.
“I think of it as Sleeping Beauty come to life,” Kidman told Vogue.
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