“What does Pat usually do?” Valletta wondered aloud as they examined a couple reference photos for the look. The previous night, for example, she had opted for a white t-shirt and black pants, her hair in loose waves, to see Snoop Dogg DJ.Įven when preparing for the Met Gala, Valletta was wary of going overboard, debating whether to fill out her lower lash line. If she does too much-be it hair, makeup, or wardrobe-“it looks like I just walked off a fashion shoot,” she said. “I’m kind of an eyebrow freak,” she added.
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“I just do my good skin and some mascara.” She paused.
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“I’m a very low-maintenance person, and I don’t really know how to do makeup and hair,” she said. An average night out doesn’t usually require 10 hours’ preparation for her. Valletta’s day had begun at 7:45 a.m.: matcha latte from the cafe around the corner “whole special red carpet zhuzh” facial from Joanna Vargas last-minute fitting quick workout a dash to Saint Laurent to pick out a look for her boyfriend, the hair stylist Teddy Charles. “There’s something like death and rising.” “It could almost be a wing, could be kind of angelic, could be almost like a black orchid,” she said, riffing. It’s was black-“in the religious tone, it would be the darkness before the light,” she said-with a dramatic ruffle emerging from its one shoulder. Met Gala co-chair Rihanna, for example, channeled the Pope in Maison Margiela Lily Collins opted for a Mater Dolorosa-inspired Givenchy look and Zendaya arrived cosplaying as Joan of Arc in Versace chain mail.īut Valletta’s look wasn’t quite so literal. The Costume Institute theme this year, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” lent itself to innumerable elaborate looks derived from Catholic iconography on the red carpet. “That was a cool moment to be pushing the envelope.” At the time, Valletta had her own doubts, but “looking back on it, I think it’s so badass that I went for it, because it was at a time when people were just starting to get into the theme,” she said.
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That year, she arrived in full Marie Antoinette regalia, complete with powdered coif and voluminous John Galliano skirt, much to the surprise of many observers.
Though Anna Wintour is most often credited with fashioning the Met Gala as it’s known today-she began chairing the event in 1995-Valletta remembered 2004, the year of “Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century,” as a particular inflection point. Valletta started modeling for the label when its eponymous founder was still alive, but she and Vaccarello, who debuted his first collection for Saint Laurent during the Spring 2017 season and with whom she planned to attend the Met Gala, also go way back: They met on set shooting a campaign for his own, now-on-hiatus namesake brand. Valletta’s dress, a black sequined mini by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, lay on the bed alongside a couple of shopping bags bearing the brand’s logo. (On this particular night, a cluster of paparazzi had staked out the hotel’s front entrance waiting for Met Gala departures.) A makeup artist flitted around Valletta, still in her hotel robe at one point, Pat McGrath, who masterminded her look, dropped in for a brief consult. It was almost 4 p.m.-a scant hour before attendees were slated to arrive-and we sat in a third-floor suite of her scene-y hotel in Tribeca.
“It wasn’t as intense as it is now-it wasn’t as big a deal.” So the parties all blend together at some point: “They were more just like a really nice night out,” Valletta said on the afternoon of the first Monday in May, shortly before the red carpet was unfurled down the steps of the Met. She’s been attending since the 90’s, when she was first flung into fashion’s orbit as one of the original supermodels-a time when the Met Gala, despite having hosted its first crop of philanthropists-about-town back in 1948, wasn’t quite the institution it is now. Amber Valletta can’t quite remember the first time she went to the Met Gala.
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