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Making Fashion History journalofantiques.com

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Maxine Carter-Lome
very year on the first Monday in May, every- that also covered her face. Sarah
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body who’s anybody in the world of fashion and Jessica Parker in 2018 wore a gold Maxine Carter-Lome
Ecelebrity attends or watches on TV the famed brocade dress with a flowing train Business Manager
Jeffrey Lome
Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New and a headpiece that held a nativity scene. In 2018,
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York City for what is referred to as the “Super Bowl of actress Blake Lively wore a regal Versace gown that
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celebrity red carpets.” featured a flowing train that took 600 hours to make.
Judy Gonyeau
Known as “Fashion’s Biggest Night,” this high- While these Red Carpet spectacles capture the
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profile megawatt event was introduced in 1948 paparazzi and the public’s attention, not everyone in
by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert (who is also the fashion industry sees them as positive for fashion or Art Director
responsible for launching New York Fashion Week) for the event. Clothing Designer Tom Ford is quoted Lynn Cotterman
as a way to raise money for The Costume Institute: a as telling former New York Magazine editor Amy Odell ads@journalofantiques.com
collection of costumes that theater designers could look for her upcoming biography on Anna Wintour that
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to for inspiration. Tickets for the first gala were fifty The Met Gala had “turned into a costume party.”
Lynn Cotterman
dollars each (compared to today’s over $30,000/ticket “[The Gala] used to just be very chic people wearing
price) and included a midnight supper. very beautiful clothes going to an exhibition about the Judy Gonyeau
Since then, the benefit, which also marks the 18th century … You didn’t have to look like the 18th Jill Montague-Kaitbenski
opening of The Costume Institute’s annual exhibit, has century, you didn’t have to dress like a hamburger,
grown in size, scope, and profile, raising millions of you didn’t have to arrive in a van where you were 508-347-1960
dollars a year to fund the department's exhibitions, standing up because you couldn’t sit down because you Toll free:
acquisitions, and capital improvements. In 2021, the wore a chandelier.”
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Over the first few decades, the Gala was one of museum exhibition is, In America: An Anthology of Fax: 508-347-0911
many annual benefits held for New York charitable Fashion. The dress code for the May 2nd Gala was Mailing:
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galas were almost entirely members of New York high Gilded Age in New York during the time period Sturbridge, MA 01566
society or the city’s fashion industry. That changed in between 1870 to 1890.
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the 1970s when then Vogue Editor-in-Chief Diana The term “fashion” implies a look defined by
Vreeland joined the Costume Institute as a consultant. the fashion industry as that which is trending. To UPS and FedEx
From 1948 to 1971, the event was held at various see what’s trending, generations of women have turned Shipping Address:
elite venues in New York City, including the Waldorf- to the pages of Vogue magazine for inspiration and 46 Hall Road
Astoria, Central Park, and the Rainbow Room. It was aspiration. In this issue, we explore Vogue’s 130-year Sturbridge, MA 01566
Vreeland, however, who was responsible for finding a history and its role as the advocate and archivist of
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permanent home for the annual gala at The Met. modern American fashion. We also take a look at
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Vreeland is also responsible for expanding the guest American apparel company Carhartt, Inc., founded in is published monthly in digital
list to include such high-profile celebrities such as 1889 and known for heavy-duty working clothes. and bi-monthly in print by
Elizabeth Taylor, Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Diana And, we share the story behind the newest collection Weathervane Enterprises, Inc.
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Cher, whose presence made the Gala one of the most Ralph Lauren, which leads with a cultural fashion Sturbridge MA 01566.
important ‘must attend/must support’ charitable reference to the dress at historically African American
events of the fashion season and brought out colleges in the 20th century. Periodicals postage paid at
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In addition to who attends and what they wear, a Anthology of Fashion, could not be better timed for
main feature of The Met Gala is its annual theme, this issue, as fashion exhibitions and retrospectives that POSTMASTER:
selected to coincide with The Met’s annual exhibition. showcase American design and craftsmanship through Send address changes to
Expected participants start work on their outfits as the centuries are opening this year across the country. The Journal of Antiques
soon as the year’s theme is announced, as a lot rides Judy Gonyeau has comprised a list for you on page 30. and Collectibles
on fashion designers and the celebrities, industry While fashion took a hit during COVID, with
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Both artistry and daring are on display. are up again along fashion’s most fashionable runways,
It was Vogue’s Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, and fashionistas across the country are excited to The Journal of Antiques and Collectibles
reserves the right to reject any advertising that
who took over as host of The Met Gala in 1995, who come out and play again to strut their stuff for does not comply with our standards. The
introduced the idea of the Gala theme. Over the years, Instagram moments. Journal will not be liable for any errors or
omissions but will print a correction in the
The Met Gala fashion has gone from simple but following issue if notification of such error is
elegant evening gowns and “white ties” to bold and sent by the appropriate deadline. Original
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elaborate costumes and looks designed and curated to writers. We assume no responsibility for loss
attract media attention and make a statement. In 2019, of unsolicited material.
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