Or Katy Perry, dressed as an angel, with huge wings that recalled the angel in the current Broadway production of “Angels in America.” Perry isn’t in that show, but Andrew Garfield is, and he was at the gala, too - naturally. In that latter category would be Rihanna, who never disappoints at a Met Gala and wasn’t about to start now - not when she could wear her own, ornate papal mitre, bejeweled minidress and cloak. The evening began with the usual red carpet procession up the famed museum stairs - not red at all, actually - before a gaggle of furiously clicking cameras lining both sides, and shouts of, “Who are you wearing?!” Outside the museum entrance, crowds of onlookers stood behind police barricades, hoping to catch a glimpse of some of the more dramatically attired guests. “Are they going to do that between every course?” quipped Oldman of the rather stunning sound. Guests were being summoned to make their way from the Temple of Dendur, or from the various exhibit galleries, to the American Wing, where a choir was performing before dinner. “It’s all dressing up, isn’t it?” noted Oldman, of the parallels.Īnd then there was a bugle call - a very loud one, by a team of buglers. The couple spoke admiringly of the way the exhibit drew parallels between centuries-old religious imagery and attire, and modern fashions by designers like Gianni Versace, Alexander McQueen, Christian Lacroix and others. (For the record, best actress winner Frances McDormand was there too, with a bright blue bouquet of leaves around her head, as was last year’s winner, Emma Stone - no leaves.) The Met Gala is the kind of party where you can be this year’s best actor Oscar winner, and nobody takes much notice. Nearby stood actor Gary Oldman with his wife, Gisele Schmidt, watching the crowd quietly. “You got any tomato soup with that?” Dolan joked. A waiter came by with tiny mini-grilled cheese sandwiches. “Those pectoral crosses, those copes, are you kidding me?” he said admiringly. It seemed fitting, on a night when all the stars were trying to channel the theme of Catholicism, that the real-life cardinal in attendance was a star among stars.ĭolan was effusive about the exhibit making its debut that evening, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” He was particularly enamored with the stunning pieces - 42 of them - on display from the Sistine Chapel sacristy at the Vatican, many never seen outside Rome or in public at all, including jewel-encrusted tiaras and intricately embroidered papal cloaks, known as copes. Others waited their turn to speak to him. “Cardinal, have you met Huma?” someone asked, leading him over to Huma Abedin, the longtime Hillary Clinton aide. Pretty much everyone in the room was famous, some hugely so, but one guest seemed to be getting a little more attention than most: Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York. It was cocktail hour at the Met Gala, the most glittery and exclusive event on the New York social calendar, and celebrity guests were thronging around the imposing Temple of Dendur at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sipping drinks and munching on canapes.
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