“I was at the Kennedy Center Honors last night so I haven’t slept, so things are gonna get funky,” Anne Hathaway said, on hand yesterday for the launch of the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum at MoMA. “I’m bringing the funk to MoMA!” Hathaway looked gorgeous in Valentino and well-rested from my vantage point, but some awkward moments (at one point she said, while on stage, ‘I’d like to invite Mr. Valentino and Mr. Giammetti to invite me to the stage”) seemed to confirm that she hadn’t slept much (and maybe enjoyed some champers,too).

But Hathaway’s kooky emceeing couldn’t detract from the truly groundbreaking work Valentino and his partner Giancarlo Giammetti have achieved in creating a virtual museum that houses and comprehensively breaks down five decades of Valentino’s work. Hathaway called the museum a “revolution” and that she did not believe that word choice was “hyperbolic.” We’re with her there. A quick run down of what you’ll find upon downloading the Valentino Garavani Virtual Museum (here’s the link):

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