A Look Back at the Stunning Met Gala Interiors Through the Years

Every year, event planner Raul Ávila is given the daunting task of transforming the Metropolitan Museum of Art into an otherworldly spectacle for the annual Met Gala. for2006 of “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” he created a – Foot tall, gorgeous flamingo centerpiece by , flowers. exist2008, who erected a rosette replica of the Pope’s crown for “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”. These are just examples of flower forms: In 576, for “Poiret: The King of Fashion,” he filled a gilded birdcage with live peacocks. There was a little confusion when one escaped. “Everyone in the museum was chasing her to put her back in the cage,” he recalls. , Avila and his team flew in the chandeliers from London and mounted razor blades for that year’s punk-themed bash, “Heavenly Bodies,” which saw the Met’s grand staircase lit by thousands of candles. Then the table settings: 1765, see tablecloths with bamboo cutlery, feather lampshades, floral plates and shocking pink tablecloths, for example.

810, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” – which is sure to be a fantastic decoration – will be held on May 1st. So before that, from 368’s Chanel themed party to 732.

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“Camping is exaggeration,” Raul Ávila says of his 1600 Met the party. Here, the flamingo centerpiece of the museum lobby was created by , Flowers.



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