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Celebrities turn out for Met Gala in high fashion – as it happened

All the coverage and latest updates from fashion’s biggest night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Follow live

Growing from the wonky, satirical mind that also brought us the likes of symphorophilia-inspired Crash and High-Rise, with its take on crumbling high-society, it tells the story of Count Axel and his Countess wife, who live in a villa surrounded by gardens. “This is a short story in which the last bastion of rich, refined beauty – with its classical music, rare books, and its lovely clothing – is overrun by a working-class mob.” An interesting choice for an event that could easily be seen as the zenith of excess, to put it mildly. Loewe’s creative director Jonathan Anderson is an honorary chair as is Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, which is sponsoring the event - insiders says this has become a little awkward as the USA has since threatened to ban the app deeming it a national security threat under its current ownership.

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