valentino bts | dree hemingway’s met gala look

Midnight at the Metropolitan Museum of Art brought a surreal museum tour, centring on a ‘Fashion is Art’ theme that required guests to inhabit their garments as living canvases. Silver brilliance fractured across the steps as Dree Hemingway arrived, transforming into a 17th-century apparition for Alessandro Michele’s first Met Gala at the helm of Valentino. Operatic, densely pleated ruffs found in Sir Peter Paul Rubens’ 1606 portrait of Marchesa Brigida Spinola-Doria served as the primary inspiration for the wardrobe. Hemingway noted during her fittings that the character Michele was building felt as though it could be an actual painting, a sentiment the designer amplified by mixing 17th-century historicism with the surreal motifs of the Kaiserpanorama viewing device – which also defined the rhythm of his Spring/Summer 2026 couture show. Roman craftsmanship took a lead role here, with a base of shimmering silver lurex flowing into a marabou feather hem. Every inch of the garment offered a journey in texture, featuring a short shawl embroidered with silver chains and golden thread that shimmered under the museum’s flashbulbs. The most theatrical feature involved a massive, sculptural ruff collar made of crinoline and edged in gold. Punctuated with delicate polka dots, the collar... Read more » The post valentino bts | dree hemingway’s met gala look appeared first on Schön! Magazine.