1990FASHION & BEAUTY
Tape 4409
The Met Ball (or Gala).
The Met Gala or Met Ball, formally called the Costume Institute Gala or the Costume Institute Benefit, is an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. The Met Gala is popularly regarded as the world's most prestigious and glamorous fashion event and social gathering and is known as "fashion's biggest night"; an invitation is highly sought after.
Elaborately dressed people are seen and some interviewed as they walk into the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the Met Gala. Early 1990s.
-Donald and Ivana Trump
-Yellow and red gown
-Red gown with sequin top
-Elsa Klensch (CNN)
-CU Judith Leiber bag
The Met Ball (or Gala).
The Met Gala or Met Ball, formally called the Costume Institute Gala or the Costume Institute Benefit, is an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. The Met Gala is popularly regarded as the world's most prestigious and glamorous fashion event and social gathering and is known as "fashion's biggest night"; an invitation is highly sought after.
Elaborately dressed people are seen and some interviewed as they walk into the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the Met Gala. Early 1990s.
-Donald and Ivana Trump
-Yellow and red gown
-Red gown with sequin top
-Elsa Klensch (CNN)
-CU Judith Leiber bag
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Reel Opens - The Met Ball (Gala) New York 1990s
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Pan down the black gown of an older (unknown) woman entering the Met Gala. She happily turns full around to show off her gown and long dangling earrings as camera bulbs flash, she poses. An unseen reporter interviews her, she talks about the positive side of the 1980's, the reporter calls it
"the decade of Greed." She states, I think every decade is the decade of greed, you don't get rid of it". She then, pompously, turns and walks off. |
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CU hands holding a small round sparkly designer purse, presumably by designer Judith Leiber.
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Formally dressed people are photographed and some interviewed upon entering the Metropolitan Museum of Art before the Met Gala. A pretty young woman talks with an African American reporter about her strapless red satin gown. Camera bulbs flash as well dressed fashionable people enter the building before the event.
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Shots of couples wearing formal gowns and men in tuxedos walk past throngs of photographers. A woman wearing a long beaded lime green gown and man wearing a tux are stopped by a reporter. Pan down the woman's gown. Another woman with an extravagant off the shoulder red gown is photographed with her husband. The next woman wears a black and gold beaded gown and another in an extravagant gold skirted gown with a lacey beaded top.
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A blonde woman wearing a short white dress with black trim stops and chats with an unseen reporter about the 1980's and gives her thoughts on what the 1990's will bring.
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An older woman wearing gigantic round black eyeglasses talks with reporter as she walks past them.
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A young woman wearing an elaborate emerald green cape over a sparkling green gown talks with a friend outside the Gala.
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CU on long dangling earrings with several precious stones.
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Ivana and Donald Trump are stand and pose for photographers.. Camera bulbs flash as they walk arm and arm into the event.
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Various shots of high society folk wearing elaborate gowns and tuxedos as they enter the Met for the gala. Women pose wearing a variety of looks, a black gown with extremely wide white trimmed collar framing her shoulders, a bright yellow satin gown with poufy red sleeves, a dress with red lace top and balloon style red satin skirting, white gown with black circles.
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an older woman wearing a huge yellow veiled hat with a yellow cape over strapless satin dress, her partner wears a tuxedo and long white scarf with a black fus coat.
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