We know the 2024 Met Gala theme (‘Sleeping Beauties’) and the dress code (Garden of Time). How guests will interpret these themes has yet to be revealed. Flowers are an obvious choice; dials can come into play. My personal hope is that someone will find inspiration from sleep. If that person exists, the selection of looks below can support their planning. Here are the famous pillow looks from Viktor & Rolf’s Bedtime Stories show from Fall 2005 and Caroline Hu’s soft sculptural dresses from Spring 2024. There are dramatic evening looks from Rick Owens and Pierpaolo Piccioli for Moncler that transform the ubiquitous pufferfish to something precious: quilted textiles, flower-strewn duvets and snow-white duvets that wrap softly and warmly around the body.
Two designers known for bringing elements of the bedroom to the catwalk are Norma Kamali, whose sleeping bag coats have become a wardrobe staple, and Anglo-American couturier Charles James, whose 1937 curvilinear down jacket. designed in the same wayA quilted duvet is the ancestor of all puffers
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Pillow talk
