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How Many Attendees Wore McQueen? How Many Pro Athletes Attended? The Met Ball By the Numbers

Here are some trends and interesting tidbits that we took note of as the celebs, models, and designers made their way up the Metropolitan Museum’s steps at last night’s Met Ball honoring the the work of the late Alexander McQueen and celebrating the Costume Institute’s retrospective of his work.

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McQueen gowns spotted on the red carpet

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Guests wearing event co-chair Stella McCartney’s designs

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Pro-athletes who traded in their jerseys for tuxedos (or, in Serena Williams’ case, Oscar de la Renta–the others were Amar’e Stoudemire, Carmelo Anthony, and Tom Brady)

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: How to Break into Fashion, Bryanboy Teams Up With Topshop & Lauren Conrad’s Milk Mustache

Biker Chicks: We’ve been wanting to get bikes for a while now. This cute picture—shot at the Hester Street Fair—only adds fuel to the fire. {Mr. Newton} Wise Words: Narciso Rodriguez and Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles will teach a Learning Annex class on how to break into the fashion industry. You can buy tickets [...]

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Quote of the Day

Who Said Vogue-ettes Were Low Maintenance?

“Fashion Features/News Director Sally Singer gets the most points, though, for her carefully considered, masterfully scheduled head-to-toe mind-and-body Met prep: This past Wednesday she popped into groovy Nolita nail oasis Valley, where her go-to nail artist, Maki, touched up her signature silver-glitter French manicure. Over the weekend, it was total body fitness with a twelve-hour-long [...]

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People Are Talking

Let the Met Rumors Begin

The Met’s Costume Ball is little more than a month away, and rumors have finally started to swirl. It’s the first ball under Sylvana Soto-Ward’s reign as Vogue‘s Director of Special Events, Oprah’s hosting and Gap is sponsoring. Gap’s sponsorship means money, but if it were any other brand it’d also mean serious red carpet [...]

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Oprah, Anna and Patrick Host the Met Gala

The Costume Institute just announced their Spring 2010 exhibition and the hosts for the Gala Benefit (to be held on May 3.) This year Anna will be sharing the duties with Oprah and The Gap’s Patrick Robinson. Oprah and Anna together–that’s like some sort of world domination thing going on, right? Let’s just hope they [...]

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Kate Moss

The Met! The Met!

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SJP to MET

The Costume Institute at the Met is finally getting its own audio guide. We never understood why one of the most popular, (at least in recent years), galleries lacked an informational tour to go with it. The clothes are fun to see, but left without any context other than the obligatory opening paragraph, one’s forced [...]

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Met’s Costume Institute Goes Digital

Some fun news, thanks to WWD, especially if you’re looking for something to click on for a few hours today: The Costume Institute’s digitized most of its incredibly extensive archive, complete with images and corresponding information, onto their site, which now includes roughly 31,000 pieces of historical clothing. It’s not very browse-friendly (you can see [...]

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Adventures in Copyright

Adventures in Copyrights: The Art of The Ripoff

Confession: We are smitten with the Forever 21 dress at right, inspired by two things at once: The first, of course, is the famous Composition series by Dutch artist Piet Mondrian. The second is a YSL sheath dress from 1965, currently housed in the Met Museum’s archives. “But it’s a copy!” you say, and we’re [...]

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People Are Talking

Lanvin + Miuccia – No Shows?

We’d bet money or even shoes on the fact that someone at the Costume Ball will arrive wearing Prada, and someone will arrive wearing Lanvin. The curious thing is, Miuccia Prada and Alber Elbaz may not arrive at all. We hear from an inside source that, as of today, neither the Prada head nor the [...]

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