The last edition of the Gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art has been a spectacular night. Bold, elegant, sensual designs and many of them following the marked dress code of the event.
Celestial bodies: fashion and the Catholic imagination. It was the title of the exhibition that hosts the Metropolitan Museum of New York and has given the gala its raison d’être.
Numerous celebrities give themselves each year to the cause and parade on this catwalk their boldest, sophisticated and audacious designs with a theme that lends itself to the baroque, embroidery in gold and the excesses of the religious. We have selected our favorites among all the celebrities who have passed through the red carpet. The 10 that have excelled over the others for different reasons. Those that just after seeing them, left us breathless.
We expected a lot from the hostesses of the event, and of course, they gave it to us. Amal Clooney, Rihanna and Donatella Versace. A trio of well-matched plural women. An activist, a singer and a designer united by the same cause and with three very different styles.
The simple and complex look of Amal Clooney signed by Richard Quinn has been the most photographed. A dazzling round tail in a light blue satin gray with patterned red flowers. The front part of the top lost the bluish tints to get closer to the pure and hard silver. What was hard to imagine is that they were going to be prosaic navy blue pants. Those that half the world has in the closet, which she herself has worn several times for their office looks.
Rihanna dazzled dressed in Papisa, as exaggerated as it sounds, the singer has worn a minidress of Maison Margiela full of pearls, one of the most used ornaments during the Renaissance by royalty. Remembering a Haute Couture Pope that John Galliano put on the catwalk in the winter of the year 2000. And she was one of the most portrayed. The finishing touch was The Mitra, the headdress with which people with episcopal dignity cover their heads during liturgical services.
Donatela wore a dress that may have to do justice to religion, but that has a lot, a lot to do with the history of the brand. The dress, combined with boots in the same pattern and an overskirt held by a huge belt, is reminiscent of another dress of the designer herself.
Rita Ora. Usually leave us speechless for her excessive looks and inappropriate for each occasion, but the truth is that the singer hit with this design of Prada and his spectacular headdress.
Katy Perry, with her immense wings, a fallen angel ?. The basis of the look is nothing but a short golden dress with the Versace signature, which has financed part of the exhibition and led by one of the co-hosts, Donatella.
Emilia Clarke. Of course the actress of ‘Game of Thrones’ could only present to the Gala with a design of the signature of which is image, Dolce & Gabbana, an embroidered design that mixed with a crown headband and earrings XL.
Jennifer Lopez got a look that perfectly combines the JLo style and the Catholic theme, seemed impossible, but the singer achieved it with a Balmain design.
Blake Lively came to the event wearing another Versace design, the dress composed of a large tubular skirt that gives way to an overskirt with a burgundy tail with gold embroidery and a narrow golden bodice set with multicolored rhinestones; tones formerly associated with wealth.
If someone could exploit the religious theme to squeeze the last straw, that was the Manhattan queen, Sarah Jessica Parker, her dress, full of brocades, sequins that give shape to hearts and a large layer that dragged on the floor, exceeded the Catholic theme. Only one element was able to eclipse the actress’ Dolce & Gabbana dress, that was her headdress. Beyond a mere headdress, it has been, directly, a mini baldachin. With its columns, its appliqués, its jewelry and, yes, also its Bethlehem. María, José and the child in the head.
For closing, the Gucci team, Alessandro Michele, Jared Leto and Lana del Rey, presented themselves looking like the Holy Trinity of pain; with sacred hearts, crowns of thorns and everything.
Numerous celebrities give themselves each year to the cause and parade on this catwalk their boldest, sophisticated and audacious designs with a theme that lends itself to the baroque, embroidery in gold and the excesses of the religious. We have selected our favorites among all the celebrities who have passed through the red carpet. The 10 that have excelled over the others for different reasons. Those that just after seeing them, left us breathless.
