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Report from the Front Line (of the McQueen Exhibit): Our Writer’s Detailed Account of Waiting To See McQueen at the Met

Waiting online this weekend for the final days of the wildly popular McQueen exhibit at the Met turned into something of a sport: there were packed lunches to rival any tailgate (sans the Bud Lite), costumes and plenty of live Tweeting (see: Joe Zee). I know because I was one of those people.

15,000 people came to see the exhibit on Saturday alone and at midnight the line was still 1500 deep, according to the New York Times. According to the latest figures from the Met, all total 661,509 people came to see the McQueen retrospective, making Savage Beauty the eighth most popular exhibit in the museum’s history and the most popular ever from the Costume Institute.

A terrible procrastinator myself, I left my visit to the last week. It definitely wasn’t due to lack of interest… I just got really…busy. And who could have predicted that in the exhibit’s final days there would be a line to get into the line to get into the museum and waits would exceed three hours?

Want to know what it was like? Don’t worry, I chronicled the whole thing minute by minute:

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Fashion News Roundup

Fashion News Roundup: Karlie Kloss Covers Harper’s Bazaar Australia, OliviaPalermo.com Coming Soon and Another Olsen Bag Line

Kristen Cavallari Shot A Wedding Spread And Then Ended Her Engagement: The Hills star shot this Life&Style wedding spread and then broke off her engagement with Jay Cutler two days after the photos were released (presumably not because of said photoshoot). The pictures are gorgeous but that’s probably no consolation; bet she’s having a really not fun Sex and the City movie moment right about now. {MTV Style}

Karlie Kloss Covers September Harper’s Bazaar Australia: Excuse my Tyra phrasing, but this is FIERCE. Victor Demarchelier captured Kloss’ signature stare head-on. I feel she’s boring into my soul. I like it. {Fashion Gone Rogue}

The McQueen Exhibit Is Open Until Midnight On It’s Last Two Nights: On Saturday, August 6 and Sunday, August 7, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty will be open to the public until midnight, the latest the museum has ever kept an exhibit open. A spokesperson remarked, “These midnight hours will mark a fitting conclusion to this powerful exploration of McQueen’s work.” We couldn’t agree more. {Met Museum}

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Preview the Costume Institute’s Upcoming Exhibit, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

As soon as Paris Fashion Week comes to an end, we begin our annual countdown to the most important night in fashion–the Costume Institute Gala at The Met. This year, the big night will be even more special than usual as the fashion community celebrates the genius work of the sorely missed Alexander McQueen.

Anna Wintour and Samantha Cameron unveiled images and details of the upcoming Costume Institute exhibition, Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty this morning in London, Vogue UK is reporting. Stella McCartney, a friend of McQueen, as well as his successor, Sarah Burton will co-chair this year’s event held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Fashion Is Fun

Roaring at the Met

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Fashion Is Fun

Let’s Go To the Movies

At the Met, no less. How chic is that? The Costume Institute is launching a film series during July in conjunction with their Model as Muse exhibit and they’ve lined up some pretty awesome special guests to attend and discuss the movies, along with curator Harold Koda and guest curator Kohle Yohannan. Here’s the lineup: [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

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Models

Celebrity Breakup: Agyness Deyn + Christopher Bailey

To: Natalie@fashionista.com From: EnglishRose@fashion.co.uk FACT: Agyness Deyn will not be in the Burberry campaign next season. Trust this. We do trust it, but that leaves a bigger question: Last week, Agyness said she wouldn’t be attending the ball because of a European fashion shoot – which we find suspect since everyone in the industry will [...]

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People Are Talking

Double the Fun

To: Britt@fashionista.com From: BoyWhoCriedFashion@newschool.edu Happy Met Monday Girls! Word is, Peter Som will be doing double duty at the ball tonight. He’ll walk the steps once with a top model dressed in Blass, and then again a little bit later with a certain indie film actress with a big movie coming out this summer. The [...]

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Diane Hearts Wonder Woman

Not only is everybody sort of obsessed with superheroes right now due to the Met Ball’s choice of theme this year, but it looks like the idea has stuck with at least one designer in the longer term sense. Diane von Furstenberg’s creating a capsule collection for the holiday season in collaboration with DC Comics [...]

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Fashion Is Fun

Coco Talks Superhero

Reasons to check out this video on the preparation for the Met ball on Vogue‘s site: 1. You get to see Coco mid-superhero makeup 2. You get to see the little finger wave thing she does when talking about Poison Ivy 3. You get to see her throw a couple punches while smiling 4. You [...]

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Site Seeing

Spotted on Prince Street yesterday afternoon. A preview to the Met Ball? Only to us…

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Buy, Buy, Baby

Bones, Teeth, Claws Etc.

At the blog mode panel at the Met two weeks ago, Harold Koda said Simon Costin’s Victorian looking necklaces were two of the most discussed pieces of the exhibit. Most people who took the time to post comments were disturbed by the sperm filled vials and dried bird claws, but a few found them really [...]

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