The Met Gala After Anna?
Is she getting ready to depart? Is this succession planning in public? What would the magazine world even look like after Anna? What about … the Met Gala?
While the answers to some questions may have to wait until the actual HOEC is announced, a response of sorts to the Gala query appeared Sunday evening in Paris, where the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, the decorative arts institute housed in the Palais du Louvre, held its first Bal d'Été (Summer Ball) on the eve of the couture shows.
A black-tie affair nominally marking the centenary of the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the exhibition that popularized Art Deco, the Bal d'Été was, like the Met Gala, a museum fund-raiser. One that had been two years in the making.
Like the Met event (and the gala that the Louvre itself held earlier this year), the Bal d'Été coincided with a grand fashion exhibition, 'Paul Poiret: Fashion is a Feast,' at the museum. And it was art-directed by a famous name, Sofia Coppola, who filled the entry gallery where the dinner was held with ferns and palm fronds, the tables festooned with rose-colored tablecloths and overflowing with mini posies of dahlias, roses and strawberries, like a scene out of her 2006 film 'Marie Antoinette.'
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