FASHION

Photos: The Best of the 2013 Met Gala


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Photographer: Willy Vanderperre

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala, sponsored by Moda Operandi and celebrating the new exhibit “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” seemed to present quite the conundrum to the celebrities and bold-facers in attendance Monday night. To embrace the evening’s theme whole-heartedly or to play it safe? The results were, well, mixed. There were fewer mohawks than you might have expected, save for Sarah Jessica Parker’s valiant Philip Treacy headpiece. A disappointing number of piercings, too—why was no one brave enough to go for a full-on septum ring (at least Karen Elson gave a nod with a fake one)? And some women appeared to have confused the high fashion event with a prosaic awards ceremony (sorry, Uma, that golden statuette will have to come some other night). But one way or another, everyone managed to get punk’d, err, punked.

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From left: Sarah Jessica Parker, Miley Cyrus, Julie Macklowe, Madonna

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From left: Nora Zehetner, Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen, Elettra Wiedemann

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From left: Jennifer Lawrence, Uma Thurman, Gwyneth Paltrow, Julianne Moore

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From left: Katie Holmes, Linda Evangelista, Zooey Deschanel

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From left: Rooney Mara, Beyonce, Amanda Seyfried

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From left: Miranda Kerr, Gwen Stefani, Rita Ora, Carey Mulligan

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From left: Olivia Wilde, Emma Watson, Nikki Minaj

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From left: Kim Kardashian, Lauren Santo Domingo, Taylor Tomasi-Hill, Karolina Kurkova

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Sienna Miller and Cara Delevingne

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From left: Vivienne Westwood, Zandra Rhodes

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From left: January Jones, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lily Collins

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From left: Emily Blunt, Elle Fanning

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From left: Gisele Bundchen, Anja Rubik, Kati Nescher, Dree Hemingway

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From left: Nicole Richie, Gucci Westman

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From left: Anna Hathaway, Karlie Kloss, Joan Smalls