Prabal Gurung on designing Maria Sharapova’s Met Gala gown with Boll & Branch bedding fabric

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday’s Met Gala theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” in November. The theme refers to fashion that now lies dormant, including the fragile pieces being preserved by the Costume Institute. The galleries of the corresponding exhibit take visitors through rooms organized by themes of nature that feature poppies, roses, beetles and butterflies. The dress code for the Gala is “The Garden of Time.”

Designer Prabal Gurung dressed eight women for the Gala. For the look worn by tennis star Maria Sharapova, he took a playful approach to the “sleep” aspect of the “Sleeping Beauties” theme.

“I imagined this beautiful person, this girl in the garden awakened. What would she be sleeping on? [And I thought], ‘Should we just make it from bed sheets?’ But I wanted it to be luxe. I work with cotton a lot — I grew up in Nepal and India, and that’s a big staple in what we wear,” Gurung said.

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