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The Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has played host to a number of red-carpet rebels over the years. Katy Perry famously lit up the night with her dress of 3,000 LEDs in 2010, and who could forget Marc Jacobs’s outrageous chic Comme des Garçons lace look in 2012? And yet there is a sub-section of stylish dressers who subvert the rules in more subtle ways: Enter the theme rejectors. They came out in droves for this year’s Charles James-themed gala, countering the couturier’s ball gown with ultra modern takes on evening wear. Lupita Nyong’o sparkled last night in a Josephine Baker–style Prada look, and she was followed by a parade of chic minidress wearers, like Michelle Williams who wore Louis Vuitton. And few could top Erykah Badu’s sartorial act of rebellion as she entered the Great Hall in a Givenchy couture jumpsuit and oversize hat.
There were plenty who sidestepped last year’s punk theme too. Jennifer Lawrence made the case for subdued elegance over anarchy gracing the museum stairs in Raf Simons’s modern reinterpretation of Christian Dior’s New Look. Kate Upton’s emerald green Diane von Furstenberg dress was anything but chaotic, and Katy Perry’s byzantine ensemble by Dolce & Gabbana seemed to predate the punk movement by several hundred years. With her marabou-feathered ball skirt, Jennifer Love Hewitt danced to the beat of her own drummer for the rock ’n’ roll–themed gala in 1999. Flash to 2010, to the opening of the American Woman exhibit, for example, and it’s clear why British actress Emma Watson chose to fly her own flag, outfitted in an anglo-appropriate Burberry dress.
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