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Some of the better names in appearance and the brawl industry donned their best academic attire, including across-the-board brawl gowns and the white-tie-and-tails apparel men were told to wear, at the 2014 Met Gala on Monday night.

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The anniversary star-studded account this year additionally acclaimed the aperture of the new Anna Wintour Costume Center and its aboriginal exhibit, Charles James: Above Fashion. While stars like Sarah Jessica Parker, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift abashed in abundant gowns evocative of those James designed, others, like Olivia Munn, showed off sleeker interpretations of the style.

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The Newsroom brilliant told The Hollywood Anchorman that her ablaze chicken dress, with its coast neckline, was a accord amid her stylist, Micaela Erlanger, and artist Diane Von Furstenberg.

Munn boasted that she admired cutting the comfortable, failing gown, but that she wouldn't get to adore it forever.

When THR asked the extra about the aboriginal brawl clothes she anytime owned, she mused, "I don't anticipate I've anytime endemic a brawl clothes -- including now. I anticipate this goes aback anyway."

J. Crew artistic artist Jenna Lyons additionally dared to be different, assuming off her estimation of the white-tie-and-tails attending men were told to wear.

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Although she explained that her attending had elements of James' aesthetic, she absitively she didn't appetite to accident cutting a brawl gown.

"I did my best to array of accept an ode to what would accept been a translation," Lyons said of her suit. "So that's why the pants accept a lot of aggregate to them, and the amazon satin, which I anticipation was an important allotment to it."

She added: "I knew I was activity to get ashore on the red carpeting with someone's heel on my clothes if I wasn't careful."

Indeed, the James-esque abundant skirts fabricated walking up the Met accomplish a bit of a challenge, with several women apparent badly appropriation up their layers of bolt as they climbed the stairs.

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One, Hayden Panettiere, proudly aggregate up her brim and bound climbed the stairs, adopting her accoutrements triumphantly over her arch back she accomplished the aftermost landing afore the Metropolitan Museum of Art entrance.

Sarah Silverman didn't accept as abundant of a handle on her dress, authoritative somewhat of a admirable appearance of the adversity she was accepting walking in it.

When a anchorman asked Silverman how her dress feels, she joked, "It feels like a f---ing additional skin."

Also apparent on the red carpet: Anna Kendrick cheating up abaft Pitch Perfect 2 casting affiliate Hailee Steinfeld and giving her new co-star a hug.

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While Steinfeld abashed in a James-inspired Prabal Gurung black-and-white number, Zac Posen dressed at atomic two women in James-inspired gowns: Dita Von Teese, with whom the artist absolved the red carpet, and Hedwig and the Angry Inch brilliant Lena Hall, who wore an intricate-looking pale-pink clothes that additionally served as the afterpiece to Posen's bounce 2014 collection, she said.

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Posen, meanwhile, congenital James' assignment designing capes into his white-tie-and-tails look, an accouterments that he explained was fabricated for him in accord with adolescent artist Ralph Rucci.

"I feel so accustomed to accept the acquaintance of accepting a allotment advised for me for a specific event," Posen told THR. "It's a attenuate moment in my life, and it's important for men to be able to abrasion fashion, accept fun and adore it, and to accept addition artist be that accessible to let me in their flat was absolutely humbling."

When asked why he took that avenue instead of, for instance, designing his own cape, Posen said, "I had the befalling to coact with him, and he's a hero of mine. I anticipate he's a genius, and while we're adulatory addition genius, Charles James, I anticipate it's important to bless added abundant American active geniuses."

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While Posen went aloft and above the men's dress code, THR spotted a few stars who didn't action the appropriate white-tie and tails, either opting for white cape jackets or acceptable tuxes.

Designer Derek Lam was amid those who went the acceptable route, but it wasn't for abridgement of trying, he told THR.

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After testing a few white-tie-and-tail options, Lam absitively none of them looked right. "So I aloof put on my accurate cape and kept it simple," he said.

But he vowed to accumulate analytic for the appropriate white-tie look. "I'm still activity to attending for the appropriate one for me, because I anticipate it's wonderful," Lam said. "I anticipate it's a abundant break to do article acceptable and actual elegant."

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