Celebration of American design themed ‘gilded glamour’, prompted slogans, homage and big dose of history
Politics – personal, contemporary and historic – were close to the surface on New York’s Upper East Side on Monday night as 600 guests, invited to celebrate America’s Gilded Age at the Met Gala, offered their own interpretation of style and the multitude of meanings dress carries then as now.
Singer Alicia Keys wore a cape celebrating New York union history. New York Mayor Eric Adams, who had said he’d been “dying to go” to the fundraiser “for years”, arrived on the red carpet wearing a jacket with decorative forearms and lapels that paid homage to the New York transit system. The back of his coat read “End Gun Violence” in red lettering.
