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The Met Gala red carpet is over and celebrities, fashion designers, artists and philanthropists are inside the Metropolitan museum taking in this year’s exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. The gala portion is actually a fundraiser for the Costume Institute (the museum wing funds itself), and this year it raised the most money in its history: a record $31 million.
If you lurked in our Substack chat earlier today you would have seen some of our favourite red carpet ensembles, but below Zoe and Rebecca share their stand-outs alongside Ensemble contributing editors Dan Ahwa and Emma Gleason (who also does the fab Friday newsletter Crust).
Did our Met Gala predictions come true? Some of them did! We run through them here:
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