Our Favorite Looks From The Met Gala

Edited by McArthur Joseph

Yes the Met Ball red carpet just happened but we made note of our favorites as soon as we spotted them.

Live Blog The #MetGala Red Carpet With Us!

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Tonight is one of the biggest nights in fashion and we want  you to share the Met Gala red carpet with us.

Azealia Banks to Rain Expletives All Over the Met Gala

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Fashion’s latest darling is no doubt Azealia Banks. The raptress is a favorite of Karl Lagerfeld, performing at Chanel‘s The Little Black Jacket launch party, and has been taken under the professional styling wings of Nicola Formichetii. The 20-year-old will soon have her official coming out party when she performs at this year’s Costume Institute Met Gala. 

Baz Luhrmann Brings Elsa Schiaparelli & Miuccia Prada Together, Beyoncé’s “Crazy” Baby Talk and Yohji Yamamoto’s Film Debut

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- Christina! Bring me the heels! Steel your nerves and hide the wire hangers to take a peek inside Joan Crawford‘s shoe closet. [Stylelist]

- In anticipation of The Costume Institute‘s upcoming “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” exhibit, Vogue threw some models in Prada collections from spring 1996 to fall 2011. [Vogue]

The Met Gala to Be Live Streamed for the First Time Ever

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

If you’re like this gal, you’ve always wanted/desired/demanded a ticket to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute Gala. Well get ready for the next best thing as this year’s Gala red carpet will be live streamed.

Surreal World: Salvador Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Way before Takashi Murakami splattered paint all over Louis Vuitton, Salvador Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli pioneered the artist and designer collaboration.

Backpedalling with Prada: Brand Insists Miuccia’s Met Exhibit Comments “Taken Out of Context”

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The Elsa Schiaparelli-Miuccia Prada Costume Institute exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is still months away, but why not get the buzz rolling early on? Backstage after her celebrity-filled men’s show in Milan, Prada appeared not too enthused about the upcoming exhibit, saying: ”It’s too formal. They are focused on similarities, comparing feather with feather, ethnic with ethnic, but they are not taking into consideration that we are talking about two different eras, and that [Schiaparelli and I] are total opposite. I told them, but they don’t care.” Now, her namesake label claims these comments were “taken out of context.”

Words of Wisdom and Doddering Charm Courtesy of Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel is a fashion icon. And she’s 90 godddamn years old. Meaning that she can and will say whatever the hell she wants. In an amazing interview with The Daily Telegraph, Apfel gives her take on New York fashion, celebrity style and that time Lindsay Lohan asked her to be her Svengali. Hint: she said no. 

Prada and Schiaparelli to Chat It Up at the Met

Edited by Lester Brathwaite

Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion is the Met Costume Institute‘s next undertaking after the rip-roaring success of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. The exhibit will feature imagined conversations with the two iconic Italians on various subjects, from art and politics to women and creativity.

Tough Act to Follow: The Costume Institute’s Next Exhibit

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The record-breaking success of Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was a feather in the hat of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute — and that hat was probably designed by Philip Treacy — but what’s next? According to WWD, the Met will delve into the work of two female, Italian designers.