Each year New York sees the red carpet rolled out for one of the biggest events on the fashion calendar and what some describe it as the Super Bowl of fashion events; The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit – The Met Gala. And in its 18th year, this year proved the gents are really stepping up their game.
With some of the biggest names in the world from fashion, film, music, politics and business attending the ultra-exclusive event, this year sees the celebration and opening of The Met’s “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology exhibition”; a showcase housed by The Met’s Costume Institute with Vogue editor Anna Wintour as host and co-chair of the event. The annual gala symbols the opening of each year’s new exhibition.
Some well know and sharply dress gentlemen got the memo for the ‘white-tie’ dress code and really hit the mark. Back in 2014, Wintour made the dress code requirement of white-tie saying “Women traditionally have to spend so much time thinking about what they are going to wear, and we felt it was finally time to turn the tables”. While not every gents adhered to ‘white-tie’, there are still many sartorial looks notable for Best Dressed.
If you are wondering what the difference is between Black-tie and White-tie, here it is: Black-tie includes a black tuxedo dinner jacket, a white wing-collared shirt, and a black satin bow tie. White-tie swaps the dinner jacket for a dress coat with tails, a white cotton bow tie, and a white waistcoat that hits just below the belt line.
Who wore what? Here’s who made the cut for Dapper Lounge on the Best Dressed Gents Met Gala 2016.
The gala in its 18th years saw a theme of fashion meets technology, and it goes without saying the ladies tend to steal much of the spotlight upon climbing the famous Met steps on the first Monday in May in what were some stunning and some crazy fashion creations. With about 650 people of the social elite invited, each ticket to this event is estimated to be at the $30,000 USD mark, or $275,000 USD for a whole table; so it might be easy to see how $12.5 million was raised last year for the museum.
This exhibition follows the advancement of fashion from the invention of the sewing machine through to the inception of mass production and ‘fast fashion’ brand like Top Shop, Zara and H&M. Thomas Campbell, director and CEO of the Met, said, “Fashion and technology are inextricably connected, more so now than ever before…It is therefore timely to examine the roles that the handmade and the machine-made have played in the creative process…Often presented as oppositional, this exhibition proposes a new view in which the hand and the machine are mutual and equal protagonists.”
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