Overview
- This year’s Met Gala framed the dress code as “fashion is art” in concert with the Costume Institute’s Costume Art exhibition.
- Guests put Black artists at the forefront, including Amy Sherald’s collaboration with Thom Browne and Venus Williams in a look inspired by Robert Pruitt.
- Jon Batiste carried a Barkley Hendricks homage from his hotel exit to the carpet, and stylist Law Roach wore a painted suit by Naïla Opiangah.
- Other outfits translated well-known works into couture, such as Heidi Klum as the Veiled Vestal, Julianne Moore as Madame X, and Karan Johar wearing scenes by Raja Ravi Varma.
- An editorial in The Indian Express praised the pageantry but argued the gala keeps art aspirational and bound to elite fundraising.