Madonna at Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
May 7, 2009 by James Collins
Filed under Events, News, Red Carpet
The Super Bowl of fashion is once again upon us. The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art had its annual shindig on Monday night. This year, Ms Wintour of VOGUE themed the party and the exhibit “Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion.” This is the night that a young actress dreams of getting invited by her favorite designer to sit at one of the highly coveted and always sold-out tables. Other women, especially those with house contracts must serve as brand ambassadors for the brands that sign their checks. This is the case with Madonna.
She could have chosen the best of the Pre-Fall 2009 collection or even gone the vintage Louis Vuitton route to find something to go with the theme of the evening, but being Madonna, she chose another route – a mini bustle dress with asymmetrical peak-a-boo black netting under a blue tortured fabric. It has the feel of a much nicer cleaner look, if only it had the hem sewn to the top of the skirt and a bunch of trendy bits thrown at it from a distance to make it a show piece.
For accessories Madonna and Marc Jacobs chose a sort of greatest hits of Madonna through the ages: black sequined
fingerless gloves to remind us of the Lucky Star mesh ones, an oversized diamond cross and bangle to evoke the Like a Prayer era and black patent leather lace-up platform thigh-high boots with a cinched heel and pearl accent from the more recent Confessions Tour/English horsewoman phase.
Already this is quite the look, but Madonna took it even further. In what I can only hope was a loving nod to Blow and Treacy, Jacobs installed a scrunchie around a bun on top of her head pointing outward like unequal antennae. It is rare that almost every detail is this off. This is the result of too many cutesie winks and nods to the past with a bit too much passion. Only passion would make a designer try to reinvent the saloon girl look. JAMES COLLINS
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