Met Gala looks that Win our vote!

When the theme of the Gala is " China: Through the Looking Glass" stylists and their clients should think about the influence of Chinese aesthetics on Western fashion. It was important to reach for inspiration from the far East, but at the same time not look too traditional. Sadly to say they were only a few that could pull it off tonight.
 

Winner of tonight's Met Gala - Karolina Kurkova

Emily Ratajkowski celebrated the new exhibit in an elegantly embroidered dress by Topshop. Victoria's Secret Angel Lily Albridge showed up in a dove gray Carolina Herrera dress. No shortage of Chinese reds showed up on the red carpet, but the winner who took our vote is Karolina Kurkova. The model put her gorgeous legs on display in a Chinese-inspired Tommy Hilfiger mini-dress with a keyhole cutout at the bodice. She completed the piece with golden sandals that snaked up her legs.

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"Through the Looking Glass" is devoted to China

Andew Bolton is recognized for having some of the most groundbreaking fashion exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute's history.  But only recently he found out from Pierre Berge himself that Yves Saint Laurent's famous "Chinese" collection from 1977 was inspired not by the country but by a scene in a film made in Hollywood by an Austrian-born director and starring a German actress as a British prostitute: Joseph von Sternberg's "Shanghai Express", according to Business of Fashion.

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For Andrew Bolton it was a confirmation that he had chosen the right theme for his next big exhibit. This year's show, Through the Looking Glass is devoted to China.

China is a huge market for fashion designers and as Bolton told BoF, "I wanted to show the reciprocal relationship between the East and West that has always existed" He is hoping to introduce a new way of looking at the relationship between the East and the West.

Monday night Gala organized by American Vogue editor and Conde Nast artistic director Anna Wntour will feature red carpet full of stars. Stay tuned for more to come.