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The most sought-after designers, models, fashion houses, and Hollywood A-listers descended to NYC last night for the 2012 MET Gala. The fashion fête honored Italian designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada.
THE BUZZ | QIANNA SMITH | May 8, 2012
Caption (L to R) Model Karolina Kurkova in Rachel Zoe, Rihanna in a crocodile appliqué gown by Tom Ford, actress Camilla Belle dons Ralph Lauren, British actress and gala co-chair Carey Mulligan in Prada and 'Smash' star Katharine McPhee in Elie Saab
The most sought-after designers, models and fashion houses descended to New York City last night for the 2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) Gala. With $25,000 price tag to attend the event, Hollywood heavy hitters took to the red carpet to support The Costume Institute’s main annual fundraiser.
This year’s gala celebrates The Costume Institute of The MET’s spring 2012 exhibition, Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations. The exhibition, on view to the public from May 10 through August 19, ‘explores the striking affinities between Italian designers Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada’. Curators Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton orchestrated conversations between these iconic women to facilitate an opportunity to expose both of their most innovative work. On display are approximately 100 designs and 40 accessories by Schiaparelli (1890–1973) from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The conversation then turns to Prada, from the late 1980s to the present, drawn from The Costume Institute’s collection and the Prada Archives.
“Juxtaposing the work of Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada allows us to explore how the past enlightens the present and how the present enlivens the past,” said Koda, who has been the curator in charge of the Costume Institute at the MET since 2000.
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