The First Monday in May Trailer
A look at the new documentary on the Met Gala
At last—a night at the museum on film that isn’t just a children’s fantasy!
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, one of the nation’s largest, richest, and most prestigious art institutions, decides to celebrate the art of fashion, needless to say it’s a big deal. And when the Met’s Costume Institute put on the show, “China: Through the Looking Glass,” an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions, it became the most-attended fashion exhibition in history.
Filmmaker Andrew Rossi, in The First Monday in May, captures this convergence of high art, glam fashion, and glittering celebrity with his extraordinary coverage of the Met Gala, a formal soirée and fund-raiser (“the Super Bowl of art”) hosted by Vogue editor-and-chief Anna Wintour, which feted the opening of the “Through the Looking Glass” exhibit and the artistic achievements of the fashion world. Everyone from pop icons (Rihanna, Jennifer Lawrence, Cher) to designers (Karl Lagerfeld, Paul Gaultier, John Galliano) to filmmaker Wang Kar-wai were there to talk about what happens when the worlds of fashion and art collide. “I think fashion should be recognized when it touches people and moves people,” says Wintour. “I mean, what more can you ask from art?”
The Magnolia Pictures documentary is now available on demand. It’s an invitation you can’t turn down.
