Corsets, bustles, satins and ruffles: the Gilded Age’s fashion comeback could soon be complete after American Vogue announced it as this year’s theme for New York’s Met Gala.
This season’s flirtation with the corset trend is an experiment few are yet to try in earnest, but we could be eating our words next month after the Vogue editor, Anna Wintour, invited A-listers to arrive at fashion’s biggest night “embodying the grandeur – and perhaps the dichotomy – of Gilded Age New York”.
