The 2011 Met Gala, honored Alexander McQueen with the featured exhibit: Savage Beauty honoring the late designer’s work.
The Costume Institute’s Annual Benefit Gala, co-chaired by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, is an extremely popular and very exclusive, event in the fashion world. Tickets are coveted and steep in price – costing well into the thousands of dollars range apiece.
Designer Karl Lagerfeld and actress Blake Lively attend the "Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2011
Blake Lively arrived to the 2011 Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum in New York City in very fashionable style.
Designer Karl Lagerfeld, (Chanel’s head designer), is a big fan of Blake Lively who is wearing a Chanel 2009 draped dress and nude bodysuit embellished with strategically placed silver sequins, palliettes and beading.
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About the Costume Institute:
The Costume Institute used to have a permanent gallery space in what was known as the “Basement” area of the Met because it was downstairs at the bottom of the Met facility. However, due to the fragile nature of the items in the collection, the Costume Institute does not maintain a permanent installation. Instead, every year it holds two separate shows in the Met’s galleries using costumes from its collection, with each show centering on a specific designer or theme.
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In past years, Costume Institute shows organized around famous designers such as Cristóbal Balenciaga, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent (designer), and Gianni Versace; and style doyenne like Diana Vreeland, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nan Kempner and Iris Apfel have drawn significant crowds to the Met.
Exhibits displayed over the past decade in the Costume Institute include: Rock Style, in 1999, representing the style of more than 40 rock musicians, including Madonna, David Bowie, and The Beatles.
Other exhibits included: Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed, in 2001, Chanel, which acknowledging the skilled work of designer Coco Chanel as one of the leading fashion names in history, Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, exhibited in 2008, suggesting the metaphorical vision of superheroes as ultimate fashion icons, and, most recently, the 2010 exhibit on the American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, which exposes the revolutionary styles of the American woman from the years 1890 to 1940, and how such styles reflect the political and social sentiments of the time.
Each of these exhibits explores fashion as a mirror of cultural values and offers a glimpse into historical styles, emphasizing their evolution into today’s own fashion world, this year being Alexander McQueen with Savage Beauty.
About the The Metropolitan Museum of Art:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially ‘The Met’) is an art museum on the eastern edge of Central Park, along “Museum Mile” in New York City, United States.
Its permanent collection contains more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen curatorial departments.The main building, often called ‘the Met’, is one of the world’s largest art galleries; there is also a much smaller second location, at ‘The Cloisters’, in Upper Manhattan, which features medieval art.
The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met’s galleries.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. The founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. It opened on February 20, 1872, and was originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.
Last years annual gala theme was “The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion”.
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