Eight Art-Inspired Met Gala Looks Spotlight Fashion as Art

The Met Gala’s Fashion is Art theme showcased eight outfits inspired by famous artworks (and a poem): Rosé echoed Georges Braque’s The Birds with a bird brooch; Lena Dunham referenced Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith Slaying Holofernes through bold red and feathered details; Julianne Moore channeled John Singer Sargent’s Madame X; Hunter Schafer wore Klimt’s Mäda Primavesi-inspired blue-eyed glamour; Dree Hemingway nodded to Rubens’s Portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria with silver embroidery and a dramatic collar; Anne Hathaway’s Michael Kors piece drew on Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn for Grecian urn iconography; Heidi Klum recreated Raffaelle Monti’s Veiled Vestal; and Ciara went gold-on-gold to symbolize Nefertiti. The event, marking the Costume Institute exhibit, celebrated fashion as an embodied art form.