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It might be The Year of The Snake – for me, more like snakeskin print – but it’s also The Year of The Dandy. Next week’s Met Ball theme,  “Tailored For You,” is a takeoff from the exhibit’s style: “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” with hosts and style icons Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, ASAP Rock, Pharrell Williams – and honorary chair LeBron James.

It’s like The Met Ball had already rubbed off on many attendees of the 9th annual Fashion L.A. Awards at the Bev Hills Hotel, and I hate to say is – actually, I don’t – the male attendees were in the more interesting attire. Now, when Claude Morais and Brian Wolk of Wolk Morais show up in impeccably tailored suits of their own design, they always take the spotlight. Almost all the guys wore great fitting suits: many of them double-breasted (as is the trend) with slim cut pants – not super tight sausage ones. The only way to describe this parade of fine feathered fellows: “handsome.” It wasn’t “old school” – let’s face, there’s a retro edge to almost all modern fashion, except for Katy Perry and co’s blue flight jumpsuits.

The ladies who sported their own clothes (celebs rarely do) worked the gamut from cut out gowns to cleavage gowns to backless gowns. That’s right, it’s a young crowd of models and influencers, so why not work that selfie, girl. The eyeballs of their numerous Instagram followers are in direct opposition their dress size.

Celebs went their own way: Selma Blair donned a gold Betsey Johnson number, a corset with tiered full skirt, to present a Lifetime Achievement award to her idol – Betsey twinned in a silver one. Beauty award winner Hailey Bieber (for her best-selling Rhode line) also won for dress of the evening: a blue strapless Schiaparelli midi column (Saint Laurent likely wasn’t happy). Winner Adriana Lima donned Jacquemus, as their new Melrose store was opening that night across town. And Chappell Roan did her best Victoriana punk in Alexander McQueen.

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CAPTURING THE CROWD
CAPTURING THE CROWD

EVENT FIFTY SEVEN