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Met Gala will pose question: can Vogue keep diversity in fashion in Trump’s America?
Event where fashion and politics meet puts editor Anna Wintour, a vocal Democrat supporter, in the spotlight
Photograph: Cindy Ord/MG22/Getty for the Met Museum/VogueBut the gala is also the opening night of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibition, which this year addresses a politically charged theme of dandyism, race, masculinity and the underrepresentation of black creativity in western museum culture. With popcorn-worthy dramatic timing, a show that honours America’s immigrants and celebrates understated elegance and inclusive definitions of masculinity has an all-singing, all-dancing moment in New York, under the gaze of a government that stands in baseball-hatted opposition to all of the above. A flamboyant dresser, who attended last year’s Met in an ivory tuxedo with a floor-length cape accessorised with a spray of calla lilies, Domingo said style “has been key to our survival as people of colour to imagine ourselves in a different situation.
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