Coulture
Photo by Toa Heftiba. On the first Monday in May, hundreds of celebrities, designers and public figures gather in their finest clothing on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for an annual charity event called the Met Gala. Starting in 1948, the fundraiser gathered the elite New York society members for the benefit […]
The theme’s usage of the word lexicon is ironically apt, considering that the majority of the looks that ascended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s steps require some sort of tool other than fashion as language to decode their substance and raison d’être. Perhaps a better theme for the amalgamation of fabric and stitches donned that night would be: “In America: A Lexicon of Confusion and Calamity”.