Round 1 - 2024 (The Garden of Time / Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion) - Match 66 of 100
Karol G (Marc Jacobs), left
“Speaking about her eye-catching, elvish look on the red carpet, Karol G told Vogue that the event “was the perfect opportunity for me to express how I love fairies and dreamy vibes and fantasy.”” (x)
vs. Nell Diamond (Hill House Home), right
“I decided to create a dress inspired by Sir Frederic Leighton’s 1895 painting Flaming June. My mom is the one who introduced it to me. She was obsessed with it because she thought the woman in the painting looked like me. She would literally point at the reproductions and be like, ‘That’s my Nellie.’ I have the most amazing memories of being a tiny little person and hearing her say that. The painting itself also has a fascinating history. It was basically lost from the art world for a very long time. It was sitting in an antique shop and Andrew Lloyd Weber, the real Andrew Lloyd Weber, almost bought it for some insane amount, like $10, but his mom said, ‘No more Victorian paintings.’ It was in Puerto Rico forever because Luis A. Ferré, the former governor of Puerto Rico, loved the painting and won it at an auction for an incredibly low price. It’s kind of had this renaissance and come back into fashion over the past couple of decades. It came to the Tate Modern in London in 2008—I grew up in London, and I saw it there. It’s just such a beautiful, gorgeous painting to look at. The woman in the painting is totally naked except for some gauze, so the first thing my mind went to for my Met dress was a naked wet look. Then I remembered who I am, so instead, I took the color inspiration and some of the Grecian elements. Michael, who is the dressmaker for Hill House, got a dress form and draped it a million different times to see how the fabric could lay on the body. It was really important to me to have a waist moment because one of the reasons I was into our nap dresses was because the smocking allowed you to have a little bit of a snatched waist but still feel comfortable; personally, I always feel better if I have a waist moment. Then we wanted to connect the florals in some way, and especially after reading about the impermanence of the items in the exhibit, I really wanted to incorporate fresh flowers, which were sewn in by hand, including in the van leading up to the steps of the Met. I loved the idea that the fresh flowers would die by the end of the night, so the dress would look this way for one night only. When I changed last night, the flowers were a little bit stepped on, had petals missing, and the colors of the flowers had stained the dress in a really beautiful way. It will truly never look the way it originally looked again.” (x)
Whose outfit was better?
Karol G
Nell Diamond
