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For some wearing 1880s robber baron attire at the Met Gala, the outfit was a part of a fantasy carrying out the “Gilded Glamour” dress code.
For Steve Schwarzman, it fit. Blackstone Inc.’s chief executive officer donned a top hat, white tie and cane next to his wife, Christine, in a gold gown with her hair up.
The couple teased they were Mr. and Mrs. Russell from the Julian Fellowes series “The Gilded Age” -- characters perhaps they understand more than most, having ascended to wealth and stature themselves. There they were, at a party for 400 guests -- the same number that fit, or were allowed in, to Caroline Astor’s ballroom in the late 1800s.
On Monday night, it was Anna Wintour’s list and ball, at a benefit for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring a new exhibition about America’s fashion legacy.
Whether or not the number of guests was a symbolic reference to Astor’s list, the event couldn’t help but be a 21st century statement on privilege and power, carefully curated for broad public consumption.
The screams from people lined up on sidewalks on Fifth Avenue came for the Kardashians, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kerry Washington, Cardi B, Janelle Monae and Kieran Culkin. The Schwarzmans went barely noticed, and their names weren’t on the list of expected guests handed to press.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the billionaire founder of crypto exchange FTX, had his name on the list. But it was FTX’s new head of fashion and luxury partnerships, Lauren Remington Platt, who took the role of brand ambassador on the red carpet, wearing a custom-made necklace inspired by the FTX logo.
“The fashion world is one I know well, and one that needs to learn more about crypto,” Remington Platt said in explaining their
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