We know the 2024 Met Gala theme (“Sleeping Beauties”) and the dress code (Garden of Time). How guests will interpret these themes is yet to be revealed. Florals are an obvious choice; clock faces could come into play. My personal hope is that someone will take inspiration from sleep. Should that person exist, the selection of looks below might aid and abet their planning. Here are the famous pillow looks from Viktor & Rolf’s Bedtime Stories show of fall 2005 and Caroline Hu’s soft sculpture dresses from spring 2024. There are dramatic evening looks by Rick Owens and Pierpaolo Piccioli for Moncler that transform the ubiquitous puffer into something precious, quilted textiles, flower-strewn duvets, and snow-white eiderdowns that wrap gently, and warmly, around the body.
Two designers known for bringing elements from the bedroom to the runway are Norma Kamali, whose sleeping bag coats have become wardrobe staples, and the Anglo-American couturier Charles James, whose 1937 curvilinear eiderdown jacket, designed the same way a quilted comforter is, is the matriarch of all puffers.
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A Charles James eiderdown jacket sketched by Antonio Lopez in 1975.
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Rick Owens, fall 2023 ready-to-wear
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Junya Watanabe, fall 2024 ready-to-wear
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Jordan Dalah, spring 2021 resort
Photo: Courtesy of Jordan Dalah
Marc Jacobs, spring 2022 ready-to-wear
Photo: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs
Junya Watanabe, fall 2023 ready-to-wear
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Louis Vuitton, fall 2021 ready-to-wear
Dries Van Noten, fall 2022 ready-to-wear
Photo: Casper Sejersen / Courtesy of Dries Van Noten
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