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Dressing the Theme: How the Met Gala Dress Code Shapes Fashion’s Biggest Red Carpet
On the first Monday in May, the steps of The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue turn into the most watched red carpet in fashion. The cameras focus on the arrivals. The rules, though, come from somewhere quieter: an exhibition in the museum’s Costume Institute, and a short phrase the Met calls the dress…
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Inside the Costume Institute: How the Met Made Fashion a Museum Art
Before the gala and the red carpet, there was a theater collection and a wartime bet on Seventh Avenue. How the Met’s Costume Institute came to be, and what is on view now.
