This year’s Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute benefit was held on Monday night in New York. It was hosted by Oprah Winfrey and Vogue editor -in-chief Anna Wintour. The event celebrated the opening of, “American Women: Fashioning a National Identity”, an exhibition new to the museum.
This exhibition explores developing perceptions of the modern American women and the way they are seen today. It focuses on how the American woman’s style began to mirror her social, political, and sexual lifestyle. The exhibition depicted women at the turn of the 20th century with tiny shoulders and waists, and not very tall. They all wore pale, almost silvery colours.
The fashion for this event was very unpredictable with the exhibition looking at styles between 1890 and 1940s. The dress code for the exhibition is usually dictated by the theme. With everyone having their own definition of American style anything could have been worn. Most of the women in attendance chose to dress elegantly. Most outfits consisted of extravagant dresses, diamond jewelry, trains, and small bodices. All the stars and models that arrived where dressed in American or European labels. Most arrived with the designer who dressed them.
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