Hillary Clintontook art to heart at the 2022Met Gala.
“When someone like Hillary goes to The Met, it’s not just, like, ‘There’s Hillary at The Met and she’s wearing a dress.’ It has a lot of significance,” Altuzarra told the outlet of dressing the former first lady and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. “I felt like I had to be very thoughtful about what the dress would mean to the theme and to the occasion.”
The girl-power group includes Rosa Parks, Lady Bird Johnson, Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman and Clinton’s mother, Dorothy Rodham, as well as lesser-known names like Elizabeth Blackwell and Rebecca Lee Crumpler.
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According toVogue, Altuzarra imagined the sweet stitching after seeing an old friendship quilt at an art fair. Popular through the 19th century, the homemade blankets inscribed with the names of loved ones were popular as families moved west as a “a tangible reminder of those they left behind,” according to theNational Museum of American History.
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With that inspiration, Altuzarra interpreted the Met Ball’s"Gilded Glamour" white-tie dress code(channeling the time period between 1870 to 1890) to honor American artisans of the past and women who paved the way.
“It really tells the story of all American women, and also pays homage to homemakers, and quilters, and seamstresses, which I think is very much part of American fashion,” Altuzarra toldVogue.
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“A lot of these names are going to be well known to be people, but some of them are women who inspired me that maybe others don’t know that much about,” she explained.
The 2022Met Gala theme was “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,“serving as a part two to last year’s “A Lexicon of Fashion” and celebrating the diversity of American fashion.
The official exhibit will be on display across 13 of the American period rooms in the Manhattan museum from May 7 through Sept. 5.
source: people.com
