Architect Tadao Ando designs decor for Met Gala

Final evening celebrities descended on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork for its annual Met Gala, donning costumes and get-ups impressed by the appears and work of the late designer Karl Lagerfeld. Jared Leto wore a furry white catsuit and Janelle Monáe confirmed up in a layered look that includes a hoop skirt, whereas others opted for extra conventional, subdued robes and fits. Credit score for this yr’s decorations goes to occasion planner Raul Àvila, who has overseen the occasion’s decor since 2007, and architect Tadao Ando.

A focus of this yr’s ornament was the not-so-red crimson carpet: a white ground cowl that includes crimson and blue stripes that the internet has likened to Colgate toothpaste. The “traces of magnificence”, as they’re identified, pull from a idea from 18th-century painter William Hogarth and allude to the title of this yr’s costume exhibition, Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence, which celebrates the work and legacy of Lagerfeld.

On both aspect of the sprawled out rug, the everyday inexperienced hedges, separating the press and arriving attendees, had been changed with stacks of recycled plastic water bottles. The show of recycled supplies was furthered by means of the chandeliers—additionally long-established out of plastic—and the cylindrical set up manufactured from florals and bottles positioned on the heart of the museum’s Nice Corridor.

“Given at present’s local weather, we needed to focus on the significance of giving our on a regular basis gadgets multiple life cycle,” Avila stated in a latest interview with Vogue. “We needed to discover a technique to create a sustainable design that may implement the bottles into a panoramic set up in contrast to something we’ve finished earlier than.”

In accordance with the Met, all the recycled bottles will “be re-recycled for future makes use of.”

The inside partitions of the crimson carpet tent donned trompe l’oeil panels from theater set designer Derek McLane whose designs had been based mostly on the doorways of Lagerfeld’s 18th-century house in Paris and pay homage to his love for 18th-century French ornamental arts.

Ando, who’s behind this yr’s costume exhibition on Lagerfeld, had an expert relationship with the style designer. In 1998 Lagerfeld photographed Ando’s Vitra Home and revealed his works.

Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence displays over 200 objects together with clothes, sketches, and video interviews of Lagerfeld’s work. The present staged in The Met’s Tisch Galleries shows apparel on mannequins atop plinths, on cabinets, and nestled into alcoves. It opens to the general public on Might 5 and runs by means of July 16.