"I've loved space and heavenly bodies ever since," he said.
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The 2018 "Heavenly Bodies" costume-themed, Met Gala was last night.
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How does one top "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"?
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"Heavenly Bodies" didn't only stand to win because it's a fashion exhibit.
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However, this physical force can do more than just bring heavenly bodies together.
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Five heavenly bodies visit Aries in March — including love planets Venus and Mars.
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Her look perfectly embodied the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme.
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It won't serve you to spend your everyday life worrying over the heavenly bodies.
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Like Heavenly Bodies, that show mixed temporal displays with works from the permanent collection.
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We recently saw "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" at the Met Cloisters.
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Play your cards close to your chest as these heavenly bodies oppose each other.
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The theme for this year's Met Gala is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
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The fresco shows hundreds of, well, heavenly bodies floating around awaiting their judgement by God.
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It could be hard to understand the perspectives of others as these heavenly bodies clash.
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It perfectly fit with that year's theme of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."
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Conjunct heavenly bodies tend to mix their respective energies together to make a potent cosmic cocktail.
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Katy Perry at the Met Gala for the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme.
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Sub-glacial lakes might provide more than a window to potential life on other heavenly bodies.
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"Heavenly Bodies" is, to use a formula Catholics will find familiar, both one show and three.
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It was built in 21980, one of four shrines where the emperor worshiped key heavenly bodies.
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Looked at separately, these are already two pretty powerful heavenly bodies when it comes to our emotions.
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What then does the proximity of the garments in Heavenly Bodies to the Met's sacred art reveal?
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"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people," he ruefully reflected.
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There are variations among them, but all include astronomical calendars tracking the movements of heavenly heavenly bodies.
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But it wouldn't be a night of heavenly bodies without an angel in tow -- enter Katy Perry.
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Last year, for the celebration of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," things got really extreme.
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It's easy to get frustrated with people and crowds while these two heavenly bodies are at odds.
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The theme was "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," hence the cross on J Lo's chest.
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However, most of the garments in Heavenly Bodies were shown alongside the paintings and sculpture on permanent display.
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Heavenly Bodies is also the first time 42 pieces from the Sistine Chapel were loaned outside the Vatican.
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He was also sporting a golden cross to match the event's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination" theme.
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As the sages tell us, heavenly bodies compel every body: celebrity bodies, financial bodies, philanthropist bodies, political bodies.
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The filmmaker Wim Wenders casts a cool eye on the Met Museum's "Heavenly Bodies" exhibit at the Cloisters.
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On May 7, fashion and religion join for the museum's latest "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" exhibit.
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TWO diverging meanings of "divine" underpin "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination", at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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What, then, does he make of the Met Costume Institute's upcoming show "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" ?
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Simultaneously, Mercury enters his own sign of Gemini on the same day, creating a conjunction between the two heavenly bodies.
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Last year, the actor channeled Jesus Christ in Gucci for the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination"-themed night.
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As far as dressing for the theme "Heavenly Bodies" goes, I feel like 'Arriving With Child' pretty much takes the cake.
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The Met Gala red carpet was packed Monday night with over 22018 celebrities all decked out in their "Heavenly Bodies" best.
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"Every show we do at the Costume Institute has that potential," the "Heavenly Bodies" exhibit curator Andrew Bolton told the Times.
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Then, on the day of the red carpet, Salandra added the Catholic-themed embellishments to fit with the Heavenly Bodies prompt.
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"Heavenly Bodies" is the largest exhibition ever offered by the Met's Costume Institute and was organized by its curator, Andrew Bolton.
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Last year's spring theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," came about after a two-year collaboration with the Vatican.
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The theme of the annual iconic show is "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," something McDormand took to a new level.
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Lucky for us, we can look to the planets and other heavenly bodies for guidance — or, at the very least, some comfort.
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This year's theme is the first to branch into religion with its Vatican-approved exhibit Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Cathotlic Imagination.
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By contrast, neither the displays of Heavenly Bodies nor the catalogue essays demonstrate that these fashions are akin to works of art.
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But signal-scrambler Mercury retrograde is also in the frame, and on Thursday the two heavenly bodies will make an exact connection.
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The theme of this year's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute exhibit — "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" — is bound to cause controversy.
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A mix of the Costume Institute's "Heavenly Bodies" exhibition and a trip Miss Pop recently took to Versailles informed this ornate design.
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More than anything, gendering the signs doesn't allow astrology to serve its purpose: to reveal the heavenly bodies' roles in the human experience.
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At the 2018 "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" Met Gala, Madonna turned to Gaultier to create her "Immaculate Goth Queen" look.
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The 2018 Met Gala allowed Priyanka Chopra to bring together her culture and the evening's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme.
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Heavenly Bodies will remain on view at the Costume Institute through October 8, but its run may be extended due to popular demand.
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The theme, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, will delve into the complex relationship between fashion's leading creative directors, devotion, and divinity.
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The gala centered around the controversial theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" but stars completely knocked it out of the park.
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Much of the light cast by those heavenly bodies is in the form of infrared radiation, so scientists translated Hubble's handiwork into visible colors.
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Sex, after all, entails a certain amount of intimacy, and these women are as remote as the heavenly bodies glittering in a winter sky.
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While the night is first and foremost about the outfits — this year's theme was Heavenly Bodies — I'm more concerned with what happens around them.
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Astrology should never be taken as gospel, but that doesn't stop some readers from holding the heavenly bodies to an unrealistic standard of truth.
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It'll be able to assess their density from that vantage point, giving us valuable new info about the potential habitability of distant heavenly bodies.
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Last May, as a host of the Met Gala celebrating the show "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," the — what to call her?
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Hateplow, 3000FPS, Jellygummies, and more have created artwork based on the same desire Galileo had to contemplate the biggest and baddest of (nearby) heavenly bodies.
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Yet the notion of extracting platinum, gold and other valuable minerals from heavenly bodies and propelling them back to Earth is more fiction than science.
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In the same way that the earliest astrologers found meaning in the stars, we derive our horoscopes and countless astrology memes from these heavenly bodies.
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Many speculated that it was a result of the theme, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and the church's stance to restrict the age.
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The album is streaming below, so listen to it sing as we ponder, how will the heavenly bodies bring us a step closer to truth?
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She honored the theme "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" with a custom gold chainmail Versace dress featuring crosses embroidery on the bodice and hip.
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The goddess of entertainment didn't physically attend this year's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" themed event, but fans knew she was there in spirit.
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Where this year's Heavenly Bodies lacks in context, it certainly — with theatrical know-how and the support of the Catholic Church — makes up for in beauty.
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With a theme of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," it was only logical that Madonna would take the stage at the 2018 Met Gala.
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Woodley, 26, channeled the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme in a futuristic silver Ralph Lauren dress with white ruffle details on the sleeves.
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The downside is that "Heavenly Bodies" pushes so hard on the senses here that you are forced to leave your art historical tools in the nave.
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A 50-acre park in the Jianguomenwai diplomatic district, the temple was built in 1530, one of four shrines where the emperor worshiped key heavenly bodies.
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"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," opening on Thursday, will explore how religious vestments have influenced and inspired designers from Coco Chanel to Donatella Versace.
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The event was themed "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," and it featured a performance from the most biblical pop star of them all: Madonna.
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Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, gathers religious fashion that has accompanied and adorned and religious traditions.
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Amal Clooney not only was the co-host for the 2018 Costume Institute show "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," but she starred on the cover.
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If there was a secondary dress code to last night's Met Gala — Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination — it was to bring your most ornate headpieces.
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Celebrities and designers actually adhered to the theme — Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination — and got decked out in their Sunday best from head to toe.
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Despite the museum's updated ticket policy undoing its universal pay-what-you-wish model, well-received exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination proved fruitful.
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Katy Perry attends the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, in New York City.
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Now—besides China and Russia—Europe, India and Japan also have space programmes that can, and do, reach the moon and other heavenly bodies with robot spacecraft.
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She topped off the ensemble with a towering headpiece that featured a nativity scene to scale, directly honoring the theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."
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Her first full 25-piece collection for the museum, including several beaded rosary necklaces in black onyx, arrived in May alongside the Costume Institute's "Heavenly Bodies" exhibition.
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Indeed, "Heavenly Bodies" has proven more popular even than "The Vatican Collections," an exhibit from the spring of 1983 that is now the museum's fourth most popular.
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The Met says Heavenly Bodies attracted record-breaking numbers for an exhibition, with 1,659,647 visitors passing through the exhibition's two locations between May 9.73 and October 8, 2018.
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This year's theme is "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," with stars likely paying homage to religious iconography in fashion, wearing labels like Versace and Dolce & Gabbana.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heavenly Bodies, an exhibition of designs inspired by Catholicism, was a great popular success — the most popular show ever held at the museum.
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Nor does deep learning recognize that a sentence like "The moon is 240,000 miles from the Earth" contains phrases that refer to two heavenly bodies and a length.
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However, because of copyright laws, the bunnies' name could not be given to the heavenly bodies, so Rembrandt and van Gogh's works will go up in their stead.
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Heavenly Bodies deserves comparison with China: Through the Looking Glass, the 2015 exhibition devoted to Chinese fashion, also organized by Andrew Bolton, who is director of the Costume Center.
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As with any other point on a natal chart, you can read a lot into your Eros sign — as lesser-known heavenly bodies go, it can be highly informative.
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Last year, the choir performed at the gala opening of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York called "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination".
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To the mystification of skeptics, the farming calendar is determined by the heavenly bodies: growers harvest when the moon is full and sap rises in plants, mirroring the tides.
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As Cardinal Dolan's visitors explained it to him, the theme for the Costume Institute's big exhibition for 2018 was to be "Heavenly Bodies," a tribute to the Catholic imagination.
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Although from our perspective you might imagine two or more heavenly bodies colliding, such objects are millions of miles apart from each other (or even separated by light years).
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The Kalina of Suriname also thought of the moon as brother and sister, but their version of the relationship between the two heavenly bodies was a little more violent.
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Curator Andrew Bolton said at a press conference Monday night that we can expect Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination to be one of the museum's most ambitious undertakings.
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For this year's "Heavenly Bodies"-themed Met Gala, Roach styled four women, but one was easily one of the most striking looks of the night: Zendaya's Joan of Arc gown.
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Apologies to literally everyone on the red carpet at the Met Gala (not you, Rihanna), but Ariana's wins the award for the most artistic interpretation of the Heavenly Bodies theme.
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Yves Saint Laurent's statuary vestment for the Virgin of El Rocío, circa 1861, with gold silk brocade and pearls, in "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" at the Met.
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While the Vatican may be enthusiastic about "Heavenly Bodies" now, it took years for it to warm to an exhibit that Mr. Bolton first envisioned as including many religious traditions.
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"When a man is asleep, he has in a circle round him the chain of the hours, the sequence of the years, the order of the heavenly bodies," Proust wrote.
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A lot of celebrities incorporated subtle nods to this year's Met Gala theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," into their red carpet ensembles by wearing crosses or halo headpieces.
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Lively paid homage to the 2018 Met Gala theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," wearing a custom Versace gown featuring regal embroidery, a bejeweled bodice and a full skirt.
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Perhaps the weight inherent in this title is linked to the original connotations of influence—that mystery, intrigue, and divine force with the power to shift the positions of heavenly bodies.
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Heavenly Bodies, which opened on May 10, is the largest exhibit both the Costume Institute and The Met has ever put on display, with 25 galleries spanning over 60,000 square feet.
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Due to their closer proximity to Earth, these heavenly bodies have a more noticeable effect on us, ruling over such areas of life as our emotions, communication style, and romantic selves.
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His namesake gave a speech this September that is worth keeping in mind when you see "Heavenly Bodies," in which he insisted that what is holy resides not in beauty alone.
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Jonas channeled the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme with a gold cross necklace, which he paired with the Alta Sartoria single-breasted shawl lapel tuxedo in black silk brocade.
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" Put Parker's pièce de résistance was her a towering headpiece that she told reporters is a nativity scene to scale, which directly honors the theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
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While curating the current exhibit, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," Bolton was particularly drawn to Piccioli's 22018 couture collection, inspired by the 22018th-century Spanish ecclesiastical painter Francisco de Zurbarán.
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The panel had demonstrated that by putting imagination out of play, science could find the truth about our suffering bodies, in the same way it had found the truth about heavenly bodies.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's new exhibition about the influence of Roman Catholicism on high fashion, "Heavenly Bodies," raises questions about dress and faith that go beyond an art critic's skill set.
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Given the medieval history of its subject matter, the red carpet for this year's Met Gala theme — "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" — was always going to be an ode to opulence.
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As you may already know, your birth chart shows where all of the heavenly bodies (planets, asteroids, and more) were located in relation to the signs of the Zodiac when you were born.
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The 2018 Met Gala's theme was "Heavenly Bodies," and singer Rihanna, who was co-chair of the gala that year, came wearing a diamond and pearl-clad outfit with a Pope-like hat.
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Presumably, many will end up on the red carpet at the Met Gala in May, for the opening of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" (or even at the Oscars' next month).
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The show leans heavily on Kahlo's wardrobe to tell its story, channeling the popularity of recent fashion-centric shows such as the Metropolitan Museum's blockbuster hits Savage Beauty (2011) and Heavenly Bodies (2018).
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I wonder what both Francises, saint and pontiff, might make of "Heavenly Bodies," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's colossal, hotly debated and richly anointed exhibition on the interweaving of fashion and Roman Catholicism.
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Praise the lord that Nicki came in this red hot Oscar de la Renta gown for the 2017 Met Gala, inspired by the night's theme of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination."
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By now, I pray you've seen Pope Rihanna blessing us all with her Met Gala ensemble – or Ariana Grande providing us a literal example of the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme.
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Mormon Mitt Romney may have been one of the most surprising guests to walk the red carpet at the 2018 Met Gala — the theme was "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," after all.
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Tali Edut, one half of the Astrotwins, tells us one of the most important tools in an astrologer's arsenal is an ephemeris, or a table of the heavenly bodies' positions in a given year.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, an enormous exhibition of more than 2,000 artifacts spread across two of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's venues, has three parts.
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Fashion gets a bad rap for being too exclusive, too alienating, but "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" elided style with one of the most visible and powerful religious organizations in the world.
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Its blockbuster 2018 fashion exhibition will be "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," featuring ecclesiastical garments from the Vatican, works from the Met's collection and designer garments inspired by Catholic iconography and style.
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He and his wife helped underwrite the exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," handing over a check that two sources close to the museum said was in the ballpark of $20173 million.
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When the Metropolitan Costume Institute's new exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" opens to the public tomorrow, visitors will see over 40 vestments on loan, for the first time, from the Vatican.
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The singer's 2013 Met Gala dress just happens to perfectly match this year's Fashion Prom theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," so if she wanted to pull an outfit repeat, we wouldn't judge.
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As soon as the 2018 theme — "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" — was announced, the fashion world was on the edge of its seat waiting to see what outrageous look Madonna, 59, would wear.
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The mom to three-month-old Stormi Webster clearly hasn't let motherhood changer her signature sense of style, as she hit peak Kylie at this year's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" themed event.
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Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination continues through October 8 at the Met Fifth Avenue (1000 Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Manhattan) and the Met Cloisters (99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan).
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Now, we'll all be deprived of seeing what Beyoncé would have worn for this year's theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," which opens its exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 10.
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Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination continues at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1000 5th Ave, Upper East Side, Manhattan) and the Met Cloisters (99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Fort Tryon Park, Manhattan) through October 8.
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Vogue editor in chief and Condé Nast artistic director Anna Wintour named Amal co-host for this year's Costume Institute benefit gala, themed "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," along with Rihanna and Donatella Versace.
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"Heavenly Bodies" is being sponsored by Versace, which makes sense given the brand's incorporation of Catholic iconography into its vernacular, as well as by Christine and Stephen A. Schwarzman (and also, as usual, by Condé Nast).
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The 27-year-old model wore a gorgeous white Diane von Furstenberg gown and a matching cape to the biggest fashion event of the year, keeping to the night's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme.
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Opening on the first Monday in May, Heavenly Bodies will borrow around 40 liturgical pieces spanning 15 papacies from the Vatican, some of which have never left the sacristy (where vestments and items of worship are held).
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The two rappers, both of whom were decked out in theme-appropriate ensembles for the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" celebration, shared a moment and a quick conversation inside N.Y.C.'s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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The theme this year was "heavenly bodies," but nothing was more heavenly, hand to God, than Julian Master and Chris Maggio, dressed in black jeans and tuxedo tops, snapping away at the completely obscured fashion on display.
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The show that would ultimately become "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," the biggest exhibit the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum has ever held, opening May 10, was on the verge of becoming a reality.
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And if you find that our recommendation for your sign doesn't fit your taste, check your moon, Venus, and Mars signs, too, since those heavenly bodies are as tied up in our sex lives as our sun signs.
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Two weeks before the Met Gala was to fête the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2018 Costume Institute exhibit, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, I found myself in the middle of another gallery full of Catholic vestments.
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No such furore arose over the outfits at this year's gala, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination", even though they included a stilettoed and sequinned pope, Jesus Christ in a gold tiara, and a spectacularly winged angel.
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Last year, she arrived on the carpet in a metallic three-quarter-length-sleeve Dolce & Gabbana gown with a long matching train and nativity scene crown (the theme was, after all, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination").
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Met Gala 2017: The Best Looks The Versace brand is well known for its use of Catholic iconography and will also sponsor the "Heavenly Bodies" museum exhibit, which will be open to the public from May 10 to Oct.
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But, in terms of the clothes themselves, this year's Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination theme was an opportunity to show his faith — whether its in his millions of followers or the higher power of his endless imagination.
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Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, featuring couture from fashion luminaries like Dolce & Gabbana, Versace, and Schiaparelli alongside 41 pieces of ecclesiastical dress on loan from the Vatican, will explore the intersection of the sacred and the profane.
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Championed since its early years by top fashion editors, Rodarte has received numerous fashion awards and accolades, and the brand's work has appeared in various museum settings, most recently in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Heavenly Bodies" fashion exhibition.
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The Met Gala's 22018 theme "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" didn't sit right with many Catholics watching stars like Rihanna, Katy Perry and Sarah Jessica Parker walk the red carpet in couture outfits decked out with religious iconography.
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The evening's theme, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, has seen many celebrities relying on accessories to give off those Catholic vibes, but leave it to Rihanna to be one of the few to commit – and get it right.
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So it makes sense, then, that, that Madonna owned the night at 2018's s star-packed gala to mark the opening of the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
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Well, it turns out the material also works a bit of magic on a satellite's star tracker, a kind of sensor that tells the satellite where it is and what it's looking at based on the position of heavenly bodies.
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THE ARTS Because of an editing error, an article on Wednesday about the forthcoming exhibition "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, misstated the location of the Chapel of the Rosary.
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Strolling through the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan on Wednesday, Wim Wenders paused, fixing a discernibly toxic gaze on a crystal-encrusted Viktor & Rolf evening ensemble, part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit "Heavenly Bodies," on fashion and Roman Catholicism.
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The Devil may wear Prada, but God seems more like a Versace fan in Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's spring costume exhibition, also partly on view at the Met Cloisters, through October 8.
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REALTED VIDEO: The Best Dressed Stars at the Met Gala's 'Heavenly Bodies' Red Carpet To create her shimmering eye shadow look, Tejada applied Jenner's new Bronze Extended palette from Kylie Cosmetics, and applied highlighter on the inner corners to brighten and separate them.
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" Under the dome of Hagia Sofia, once the greatest cathedral in Christendom, the future painter of the Sistine Chapel's heavenly bodies marvels at the stark absence of icons: "Strange beings, these Mohammedans and their austere Cathedral, without even an image of their Prophet.
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"Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sprawled throughout the museum's medieval galleries, as well as the halls of the Cloisters, in an approach that underscored the cultural underpinnings of the clothing.
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It may be tempting, for some, to take a Macbethian reading of the country plunged into waking darkness for the first time since World War I — but now we know better (don't we?) than to blame governments for the transit of heavenly bodies.
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Interpreting this year's theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and The Catholic Imagination," the superstar and Met Gala honorary co-chair rocked up to New York's Metropolitan Museum on Monday donning a bejewelled papal crown and matching mini dress-overcoat combo by Maison Margiela.
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Whether it was Ptolemy's epicycles or Kepler's ellipses, there were plenty of calculations to do in determining the motions of heavenly bodies (and indeed the first known mechanical calculator—excepting the Antikythera device—was developed by a friend of Kepler's, presumably for the purpose).
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Unless you've walked the Victoria's Secret show or have $30,000 to drop on a ticket (and that's if you get the approval of Anna Wintour), chances are you will not be at tonight's Met Gala, where the theme is Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination.
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The 2018 gala celebrates the opening of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," an exhibit showcasing 40 pieces on loan from the Vatican as well as designs from Coco Chanel, John Galliano and Cristóbal Balenciaga that spotlight the influence religious iconography has on fashion.
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Though all seemed to skip the over-the-top couture designer duds that stars like Cardi B, Rihanna, and Katy Perry costumed themselves in for the event's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" theme, the KarJenners found their own way to stand out.
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This year, that exhibition is "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" — and the choice of a religious theme gave a number of gala attendees a hot chance to tee off to the line of reporters on the event's packed red carpet on Monday night.
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Though she avoided the religious imagery many wore for the evening's theme of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," Haddish still looked glam in black sequined pants and a long-sleeve white jacket with a plunging neckline and oversize train — both by designer Brandon Maxwell.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson stepped out in a bicolored tulle number that may have very subtly adhered to the night's theme of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, but it reminded us just how skilled Keren Craig and Chapman are at creating elegant, statement-making fashion.
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Say what you will about The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2018 Costume Institute exhibit Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination — whether it be that The Met got the fashion part wrong, or that it focused too much on Western Catholicism — but its popularity is undeniable.
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This year, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute has officially recognized her as their queen by bestowing RiRi with the honor of co-chair for the event, which is themed "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," alongside fellow fashion icons Donatella Versace and Amal Clooney.
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The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has led the way with wildly popular exhibitions like last year's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" — which was the museum's most popular show of all time, with 1.65 million visitors — but the trend is everywhere.
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With a theme like "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," you'd think people would excel, especially considering that at least three major fashion houses––Dolce & Gabbana, Gucci, and Versace, the latter of which inspired this year's theme––practically live on this shit year in and year out.
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While we were blown away by last year's attendees taking the Heavenly Bodies theme and making it their own (we're looking at you, Cardi B), this year's theme is so subjective and open to interpretation that there's really no telling what celebs will choose for the red carpet.
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Over 7.36 million visitors have passed through its exhibitions, largely drawn in by landmark exhibitions like Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, and the tail ends of highly-publicized shows like Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer and David Hockney.
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After giving these two heavenly bodies a thorough check, Schaim sets her sights on the rest of the chart, looking at which sign rules the first house of new beginnings, the aspects between the planets, and how the wedding's chart compares to the birth charts of each person in the couple.
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This year was no different when the singer stepped out in her opulent papal mitre (a ceremonial head-dress of bishops) and an intricately bejeweled strapless mini dress with a matching collared robe by Maison Margiela Artisanal that embodied the theme, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," to perfection.
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Though we've had our fingers crossed that our favorite diva will make an appearance for this year's "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" themed event, reports indicate that she'll be taking this year off; Dundas, the brand reportedly making her dress, confirmed that she won't be attending in their designs.
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So it came to be that the first bodies spotted wandering around "Heavenly Bodies," the spring show at the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose subject is "fashion and the Catholic imagination," happened to be two of America's most famous Mormons: Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann.
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In early May, all eyes were on the opening of a new exhibit from the Met's Costume Institute, "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," which showed potential to draw record crowds to the museum and provide it with a major source of income at a moment of financial uncertainty.
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For those who are invested in The Met's biggest show beyond what celebrities wear, here's what makes the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination expo so intriguing: The fact that it's the museum's largest fashion exhibition to date is half the story — that they pulled it off without getting political speaks volumes.
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At this year's Meta Gala, which had the theme "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion And The Catholic Imagination," the pop star showed up wearing a bomb-ass play on the pope's traditional robe, complete with a mitre (the formal name for that hat the pope wears that looks like the tip of a fountain pen).
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Baker passed away in April of 2017, but you can imagine him smiling at the thought of his creation's newest iteration, courtesy of queer and nonbinary anthropologist Laurie Raye: space pride flags, in which the typical colors of pride flags are replaced with similarly colored stripes of galaxies, nebulae, and other heavenly bodies.
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At last year's "Heavenly Bodies" themed Met Gala, the supermodel strutted up the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art's steps in an off-the-shoulder ruched couture top with with sheer elbow-length gloves and matching "long train" couture pants designed for her by her close friend, Off-White creative director Virgil Abloh.
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While the Oscar-winning actor chose a classic black tuxedo and color-coordinated bow tie, Livia was dressed in a white high-neck caped gown that nodded to the night's religious theme, Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, and she accessorized the look with pops of green thanks to her Chopard earrings and bracelet.
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Ivanka Trump turns 37 today, and in honor of the First Daughter's latest trip around the sun, we're taking a closer look at her birth chart, which depicts where all of the heavenly bodies were located on the Wheel of the Zodiac when she was born — and what those placements reveal about her, at times, impenetrable personality.
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Last night the Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted the 2018 MET Gala with a star-studded guest list of celebs to celebrate the opening of Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Celebs, dressed for the theme, arrived in stunning designs or outrageous costumes to mark the night that raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute.
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Though the Costume Institute's Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination theme focused on the ornate, outward glamour of a fraught religious institution, inspiring the most haute of haute couture from designers like Christian Lacroix, Yves Saint Laurent, and Christian Dior — the event, which could have been the grand finale of a historic and transformative red carpet season, fell woefully short.
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The 21-year-old model arrived by herself at the "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" to show off her on-theme attire: an all-black ensemble, created custom for her by Chrome Hearts, with whom she has a collection, that paired a latex top with a long black skirt and a structured black bolero that Count Dracula would approve of.
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Previous exhibitions include "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," at which roughly three-quarters of guests wore halo headpieces; "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology," where everybody pretty much just dressed like a robot; and "China: Through the Looking Glass," where some celebrities attempted, with varying degrees of success, to tiptoe around and through cultural appropriation.
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" Proust's essay, lately translated by Catholic traditionalists, came to mind while watching the beautiful and blasphemous spectacle at the Met Gala on Monday night, where a parade of stars and fashionistas swanned about in costumes inspired by the aesthetics of Catholicism, while a wide variety of genuinely Catholic articles, from vestments to tiaras, were displayed in a Met exhibit titled "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
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Though he is less ostentatious than his central European cousins, the lavishly bejeweled ancient skeletons rescued from oblivion in 2013 by art historian Paul Koudounaris' book Heavenly Bodies, Aurelius shares their essential origin story: he, too, was dug up by the Vatican from the Roman catacombs, at some point after the 16th century Protestant Reformation, and brought to a faraway altar to serve as a Catholic saint.
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The theme of this year's ball was "Heavenly Bodies," with individual looks referencing papal garb (Rihanna in John Galliano), clerical vestments (Taylor Hill in Diana von Furstenberg, Helen Lasichanh in Chanel), saintly halos (Janelle Monáe in Marc Jacobs, Solange Knowles in Iris van Herpen, Amber Heard in Carolina Herrera), angels (Gigi Hadid in Atelier Versace, Katy Perry in Versace), and icons (Stella Maxwell in Moschino).
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This year the exhibition is "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination," and the hosts are Anna Wintour (the magical manipulative Wizard of Oz for this particular event), Rihanna (who has a starring role in the coming Met Gala heist movie, "Ocean's 22016"), Donatella Versace (because her brother Gianni had a thing about Catholic iconography) and Amal Clooney (because … well, who doesn't want to stand in a receiving line with Amal Clooney?).
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For example, in the sentence "The moon is 240,000 miles from the Earth," the word moon means one specific astronomical object, Earth means another, mile means a unit of distance, 240,000 means a number, and then, by virtue of the way that phrases and sentences work compositionally in English, 240,000 miles means a particular length, and the sentence "The moon is 240,000 miles from the Earth" asserts that the distance between the two heavenly bodies is that particular length.
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