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For the final decade, no matter the theme — flamboyant “Camp,” “Heavenly Bodies,” “Manus x Machina” — many women at the Metropolitan Museum’s annual Costume Institute Ball (aka the Met Gala) have displayed more pores and skin than material.
Emily Ratajkowski, Janelle Monae, Kim Kardashian, Lily James, Zoe Kravitz, Amanda Seyfried, Kendall Jenner, Lady Gaga and Jennifer Lopez have all donned such sheer robes they may have swooped in from the Victoria’s Secret runway.
Last 12 months’s “Garden of Time” theme impressed the singer Tyla to don a Balmain gown made of sand. Only sand.
“I’d love to see some actress revive that backwards Dior suit Celine Dion wore to the Oscars in 1999!” mentioned Parsons professor Vincent Boucher. Getty Images
The theme for Monday’s Met Gala is “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style” (with a gown code of “Tailored for You”), primarily based around the historical past of the black dandy, and head honcho Anna Wintour has tapped an all-male lineup to chair the occasion: Colman Domingo, ASAP Rocky, Pharrell Williams and Lewis Hamilton.
Some wags have nervous the theme might show problematic — either because of a risk of committing cultural appropriation or because of the menswear remit. After all, there are only so many classic Yves Saint Laurent “Le Smoking” tuxes to go around.
But, in fact, the timing couldn’t be higher.
Model Kai Schreiber — the kid of Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber — just lately walked the Valentino runway and was noticed in a daring blue double-breasted swimsuit. BACKGRID
“At Paris Fashion Week [in March], the power suit for women was the big news,” creator and pink carpet professional Bronwyn Cosgrave instructed The Post. “Men’s fashion is having such a moment, with new style icons like Pharrell Williams, Timothée Chalamet and Colman Domingo, it had to affect womenswear. Plus, breaking out ball gowns in the current world economic situation seems inappropriate.”
Fabulous choices embrace Saint Laurent’s big-shoulder numbers worn with ties, Haider Ackermann’s glossy seductive fits for Tom Ford and Thom Browne’s impeccable suiting favored by Janelle Monae and Doecchi.
Nick Wooster, a menswear artistic advisor, photos feminine stars finally turning against the gala’s earliest attractive stereotype: Cher’s 1974 Bob Mackie bare gown.
Doechii rolled up to the Grammys in a Thom Browne suiting look. FilmMagic
Eiza González donned a fashionable grey swimsuit for Thom Browne’s NY Fashion Week show in February. BFA.com / BACKGRID
“If there’s ever been a moment of stylish women to be decked out in menswear, this is it,” mentioned Wooster. “The Met’s the perfect venue to show off the imagination happening in modern menswear. Women will be so comfortable, they won’t want to go back!”
Celeb stylist and THR inventive director Alison Edmond loves “the idea of the ladies going down the masculine route — a collared shirt and silk tie finished with a bowler or chic top hat, and heels … it can be very sexy if worn by the right celebrity. I’d be excited to see classic British menswear tailors like Ozwald Boateng or Dunhill suiting up the women ascending the Met stairs.”
Parsons professor of fashion journalism Vincent Boucher has a starrier imaginative and prescient: “I’d love to see some actress revive that backwards Dior swimsuit Céline Dion wore to the Oscars in 1999! With the tilted white hat?
Dramatic fits had been on show at Tom Ford’s Paris Fashion Week show in March. Getty Images for TOM FORD
Saint Laurent also confirmed exaggerated menswear for women final September in Paris. WWD via Getty Images
“Women can really play with the dandy theme, even if it’s all traditional black and white. Valentino couture was filled with sharp cuts mixed with frills. And no doubt someone will have a great Sarah Burton Givenchy moment — those tux jacket mini dresses!”
The Post has heard rumors that Zac Posen is whipping up a customized GapStudio look impressed by Seventeenth-century silhouettes and romantic poets for one fortunate woman: a swimsuit … with a practice?
Could feminine stars finally flip against the Met Gala’s earliest attractive stereotype — Cher’s 1974 Bob Mackie bare gown? Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images
Menswear theme or no, Melissa Rivers predicted: “Still, somebody will always do skin. It’s Met Ball tradition.” Emily Ratajkowski confirmed loads final 12 months. Getty Images
“My hope is, we’ll see highlights from female fashion history — [from] Edwardian and Victorian shapes to Chanel’s first tweed suit in 1923, to Dior’s New Look jackets,” mentioned pink carpet professional Melissa Rivers. “But I do assume this 12 months males are finally going to steal the show. They’ve been building up to it for years.
“Still, somebody will always do skin. It’s Met Ball tradition.”
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