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| EVENT REPORT 05.06.09 11:53 AM |
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Costume Institute Gala Puts Models on the Red Carpet, in the Decor, and in El Morocco-Style Banquettes
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 | Dinner at the Costume Institute gala
Photo: Don Pollard/Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala returned Monday night, seemingly unfettered by the recession, previous reports of low ticket sales, and some last-minute tabloid drama inspired by the institute's latest exhibition, "The Model as Muse." The night drew a sold-out crowd of 650, including Victoria Beckham, Madonna, and Rihanna.
But it was the models who seemed to take up most of the spots on the red carpet this year. Co-chair Kate Moss arrived on the arm of honorary chair Marc Jacobs, and aside from a few absences—Stephanie Seymour and Naomi Campbell publicly boycotted the gala for the exhibition's exclusion of designer Azzedine Alaïa—the guest list featured most of the industry's biggest icons, including Cindy Crawford, Iman, and Twiggy.
Vogue special events director Stephanie Winston Wolkoff returned to produce the gala, planning over a period of nearly nine months with Met vice president for development and membership Nina Diefenbach, deputy chief development officer for events Kristin MacDonald, and deputy chief special events officer Ashley Potter Bruynes.
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| NEWS 10.30.08 12:53 PM |
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Costume Institute Exhibit and Gala Will Focus on Models
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A few details about next year's Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition and opening gala emerged this week. WWD reported that "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion" will follow last year's superhero exhibit, and the subjects may closely resemble the gala's guest list.
The Costume Institute counts Iman, Gisele Bündchen, Twiggy, and Naomi Campbell on its long list of influential models who steered the course of fashion in the past 100 years. Images and video of them—along with other models, musicians, and actors—will be on display with the 70 selected looks. The exhibition opens May 6 and runs through August 9.
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| EVENT REPORT 05.06.08 4:07 PM |
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Dark Knight Production Designer Stages Superman's Fortress for Costume Institute
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 | Superhero statues at the Costume Institute's gala
Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art/Don Pollard |
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The movie world is teeming with superheroes (Iron Man made $104.4 million in its opening weekend), and last night, the comic-book genre pervaded the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute gala. Celebrating its spring 2008 exhibition "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy," the museum brought in Nathan Crowley—the production designer from Batman Begins and this summer's sequel, The Dark Knight—and event designer Raul Avila to design the look.
Filled with some of the biggest names in fashion and film, the event placed iconic comic characters front and center and even re-created Superman's icy fort in the dinner area. Attended by 750 carefully selected guests, the night was planned by Vogue special events director Stephanie Winston Wolkoff along with the museum's vice president for development and membership, Nina Diefenbach, deputy chief special events officer Ashley Potter, and deputy chief development officer for events Kristin MacDonald. Giorgio Armani served as honorary chair, with George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Vogue's Anna Wintour as co-chairs.
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| TED KRUCKEL 06.12.07 1:12 PM |
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Red Carpet Crimes and Misdemeanors
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The absolute best commentary on le monde noir of celebrity appearances and endorsements was an episode a few seasons back on The Sopranos, when Christopher kept getting dissed at a celebrity gifting suite while he was in Beverly Hills pitching his Godfather knockoff. So incensed that he wasn't granted access to the free electronic gizmos and leather goods, he belted Betty Bacall (that's Lauren, please, if you don't know her personally) in the kisser and made off with her haul bag. Since no amount of embarrassing media coverage has dimmed the shameless behavior of greedy celebrities and the sycophants who surround them, I thought it was time to create this little primer. Hope this helps.
How do I decide which celebrity is best for my event?
Good news! It apparently makes no difference at all who you get, which saves lots of tedious brainstorming. My favorite pairing: Tara Reid, at the height of her falling-down-drunk/baring-breasts period, promoting a Colin Cowie J.C. Penney line. Seems to me the proverbial bull in the china shop would have been safer.
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| EVENT REPORT 05.09.07 12:00 AM |
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Costume Institute Gets a Whimsical, Feminine Look
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 | Raul Avila and Jean-Hugues de Chatillon took inspiration from Paul Poiret's colorful, exotic designs, placing a giant gilded birdcage holding four live peacocks at the entrance to the event.
Photo: Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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For the A-list crowd of fashion makers and followers, the inspiration for this year’s Costume Institute gala, routinely heralded as the party of the year, made for a less conventional look than in recent years. The annual black-tie dinner benefiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute celebrated the early-20th-century artist-couturier Paul Poiret, whose drapey, flowing designs freed women from their corsets, and the museum’s exhibition of his work, “Poiret: King of Fashion.” Nods to the groundbreaking designer included brightly colored, hand-painted fabrics and a giant gilded birdcage with live peacocks.
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| TED KRUCKEL 05.17.06 12:00 AM |
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The King of Spain Is Waiting
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Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl once famously wrote two reviews in The New York Times for Le Cirque, one that recounted the shabby indifference she had been treated with when she arrived as one of her disguised characters, Molly Hollis, with a lady friend, and another that recounted the fatuous and fabulous service accorded her when dining “out-cognito” with the paper’s executive editor.
“The king of Spain is waiting in the bar, but your table is ready,” Sirio Maccioni said as he greeted her.
Liz Smith, apparently determined never to pay for lunch in this town again, has written about a week’s worth of columns announcing that Sirio’s circus is coming back into town, with an opening night gala this Thursday no less.
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| Q & A 03.01.06 12:00 AM |
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The New Drama King
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Since he started his firm in 2003, designer David Monn has quickly won
high-profile jobs like the Met's Costume Institute gala. We asked him
how he dreams up dramatic decor.
Your firm is only about two and a half years old. How have you done so well so quickly?
It's strange, but really it's a funny thing and I've talked to my friends about this and they've been like, "You've been doing this your whole life, you've just never done it as a profession." And it really is the thing that I've done forever, whether it is doing it for my friends or fun or myself. I grew up in a very small town [Fayetteville, Pennsylvania] that was not wonderful. And I think as a child the thing I did most was daydream. And that was the way of getting out of where I was and to get to a place where I thought I could survive.
What I do today is kind of creating a fantasy that you can bring to life. I think reality is a place that can be very hard to be in. And fantasy can be tied to purposes in life. It's what all of us strive to do, to have something better in our lives. I really do have fun doing what I'm doing now, and it is a combination of why I have been successful very quickly. I don't like the word successful—I like to say I've been very fortunate to be able to have had great stages to perform on.
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| Q & A 12.14.05 12:00 AM |
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Planners of the Year: Fashion's Field Marshal
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Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
Vogue
What She Plans: As director of special events, she runs 20 to 30 brand- and editorial-related events a year for editor in chief Anna Wintour, from dinners and movie premieres to fund-raisers and gala dinners—all drawing a swirl of fashion people, celebrities, social types, and politicians. Because of Vogue’s sponsorship of the Met’s Costume Institute gala—New York’s notorious “party of the year”—Wolkoff is the main contact for the numerous organizers from the museum, the magazine, and the sponsors, a tough task that got even tougher this year, as the team decided to scale back the after-party to restore the event’s oh-so-exclusive reputation. This year she also put on a launch dinner for Men’s Vogue in August, and produced the return of 7th on Sale, a November benefit for the CFDA-Vogue Initiative/New York City AIDS Fund. “The level of complexity of the events seems to grow and grow,” Wolkoff says.
Age: 34
Career Path: After attending Suffield Academy boarding school in Connecticut and Loyola University in New Orleans, Wolkoff went to work at Sotheby’s in 1993 as assistant to C.E.O. Dede Brooks, and later became manager of client services. Five years later, she went to Vogue as manager of public relations, and in 2000 Wintour tapped her to run special events.
Biggest Challenge: “Making the following year of the same event even greater and better than the year before. And making sure that my expectations are met each and every time—Anna is very, very conscious of making sure that all bases are covered.”
Her Other Big Challenge: “Balancing my life. I have two children, a three-and-a-half- year-old and a 21-month-old, and being able to have the flexibility to do what I do but also raise a family and on off-times be with my kids and my husband…[in] the three months leading up to [a big event], [I’m] in the office at seven [in the morning] and leaving the office at seven [at night]. But when I’m not doing this I have the flexibility that I’m able to come and go as I need to.”
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