{"id":32720,"date":"2016-05-03T14:33:51","date_gmt":"2016-05-03T18:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=32720"},"modified":"2016-06-27T23:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T03:03:45","slug":"my-best-dressed-at-the-2016-met-gala-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/my-best-dressed-at-the-2016-met-gala-is\/","title":{"rendered":"My Best Dressed at the 2016 Met Gala Is …"},"content":{"rendered":"

I didn’t expect the last night’s red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute gala to be an emotional roller coaster, but it was! And that made it a challenge to determine the most worthy recipient of my coveted Best Dressed\/Wear What You Want combo award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The exhibit, “Manus X Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology<\/a>,” was a good excuse to dress like a silvery robot, which is a look I normally like a lot.<\/p>\n

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I wore head-to-toe silver to a Lady Gaga concert in 2010. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n

But so many attendees were inspired to go with that style<\/a> that no individual stood out to me. Who knew that robot-style could get old? Sigh.<\/p>\n

Then Karolina Kurkova’s light-up Marchesa dress and Claire Danes’s light-up Zac Posen dress seemed to save the day. Marchesa’s designers worked with IBM’s supercomputer, Watson, to create a very Marchesa-looking dress<\/a> embedded with LEDs<\/a> that changed color depending on the tone of Twitter comments about the gala. Watson was in charge of analyzing the tone of the tweets<\/a>. It’s a bit “corporate sponsorship”-sounding once you get IBM involved, but I loved it, including the fact that Karolina couldn’t sit down on the way to the event. She had to stand in a big Sprinter van<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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En route! Please comment on all of my social media accounts b\/c my dress will react to your emotions! #cognitivedress #emotionalintelligence #wearabletech #MetGala #MetGala2016 @georginachapmanmarchesa @marchesafashion @ibm<\/a><\/p>\n

A video posted by Karolina Kurkova (@karolinakurkova) on