American apparel: Where this year’s Met Gala fell short

Referred to as “fashion’s biggest night out,” the Met Gala is a fundraising benefit for just one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s curatorial departments that has to fund itself, but this year’s theme felt quite off the money.

Virgil Abloh’s custom commission for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute was previously seen at the designer’s posthumous Off-White’s AW’22 runway show in Paris