Celebrities and Their Chanel at the Met Gala

In a white Valentino dress, pop superstar Rihanna arrived, as usual, in the last, on the cream carpet of the prestigious setting of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan on the mythical Fifth Avenue, preceded by the tennis champion Serena Williams and model Karlie Kloss.

All three are pregnant. The pregnancies of Williams and Kloss were made public on Monday evening.

Rihanna was content to throw to the forest of cameras “feeling good” while her companion rapper ASAP Rocky said he was “happy to be a father”.

– Kidman’s Chanel dress –

World film celebrities Penélope Cruz and Nicole Kidman, singers Dua Lipa, Rita Ora and Cardi B, retired tennis champion Roger Federer, models Gisele Bündchen and Kate Moss are also among the hundreds of guests at the most popular and whimsical event of the year in New York.

In a Chanel dress that she first wore almost 20 years ago in an advertisement for the perfume “Number 5”, Nicole Kidman told AFP that she was “so happy to still be able to wear it”.

Singer Dua Lipa was also dressed in a cream-colored dress that Lagerfeld had designed for Chanel in the 1990s, highlighted by a stunning diamond necklace from jeweler Tiffany, whose owner LVMH has just reopened its famous store on 5th Ave.

In the pure American philanthropic tradition to raise millions of dollars, the Met Gala, which takes place on the first Monday in May, is intended to finance the museum’s fashion department, The Costume Institute, whose annual exhibition, from 5 May, pays tribute to the couturier with the ponytail and dark glasses, inseparable from the house of Chanel.

Created in 1948, the “Met Gala” was for a long time reserved for the very high society of New York, but the editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour took it over in 1995 to transform it into a planetary “people” event adapted to the era of social networks.

– $50,000 instead –

Even invited, the ticket is very expensive: 50,000 dollars for a place at dinner (compared to 35,000 dollars in 2022), from 300,000 dollars per table paid by a patron.

From Monday morning, under a cloudless blue sky, fans crowded in front of the Met, a huge neo-classical building on the mythical 5th Avenue, on the edge of Central Park.

In the morning, the former model and former First Lady of France Carla Bruni had already paid tribute to “Karl”, during the presentation to the press of the exhibition event on the couturier, “Line of Beauty”.

In the pompous setting of one of the greatest museums in the world, under a huge glass roof and in the midst of statues, she said she was “honored to be here today to celebrate the extraordinary career of (her) dear friend “.

– “Immense talent” the “Karl” –

“Everything interested him, except mediocrity”, estimated Carla Bruni, praising his “tremendous talent”, in front of Anna Wintour – longtime friend of Lagerfeld – and under the eyes of Federer, one of the co-presidents gala this year with Dua Lipa, Michaela Coel and Penélope Cruz.

As a tribute to the fashion legend, who passed away in February 2019, all the stars at the gala were supposed to be dressed in outfits honoring her.

However, voices were raised to deplore that such a great tribute was paid to the “Kaiser”, who had criticized the #metoo movement and made remarks deemed hurtful for plus-size models.

“The show is really centered on Karl the designer, on his works rather than his words,” defended the curator of the exhibition and chief curator of the Costume Institute, Andrew Bolton.

Lagerfeld’s personality is mentioned at the end of the exhibition “but we have not added his most controversial and insulting comments”, assured Mr. Bolton.

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Source: AFP