Overview
- Christie, at Monday’s Met Gala in New York, wore a red Giles Deacon gown, carried a life-like mask of her own face by artist Gillian Wearing, and topped the look with a Stephen Jones feathered headpiece.
- Deacon proposed the face mask, and Christie secured Gillian Wearing’s agreement through mutual friends in what she framed as a bold ask.
- The dress referenced John Singer Sargent in its cinched, mermaid silhouette, drew from Madame Yevonde’s surreal color work, and echoed Ira Cohen’s distorted images with diagonal, swirling strips.
- The headpiece, made with milliner Stephen Jones, featured ostrich and pheasant feathers dyed to mirror the gown’s reds for a cohesive, sculptural effect.
- Layers of georgette, chiffon, duchess satin, organza, and tulle were hand worked into the dress, and custom Herbert Levine pumps with a shifting palette finished a vision Christie had hoped to realize with Deacon for 13 years.