The dress code was avant-garde, and the honoree the woman who has championed lumps and bumps for decades. And who knew lumps and bumps could rule the red carpet? Welcome to the Met Gala 2017 where cochair Katy Perry provided the macabre romanticism exemplified by the exhibition in a Maison Margiela concoction by John Galliano that took its cues from Kawakubo. Those who wore Kawakubo’s work were dazzling in a different way: Stella Tennant, Anna Cleveland, and Helen Lasichanh. But it was the arrival of Rihanna, resplendent in Comme des Garçons, who, again, proved that, on the red carpet, all bumps are beautiful.
