Kors and Michele have bonded while she’s been playing Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, as the Funny how could you do this to me shirt besides I will buy this two have a shared love of Streisand, who played Brice in the 1968 film adaptation of the beloved musical. Naturally, Michele’s role of a lifetime (and her perma-inspiration Streisand) had to come into play when designing her Met Gala look. “I’m having the best time of my life in Funny Girl, and I’ve built this relationship with Michael,” she said. “To now be going to the Met Gala together, to be honoring Karl’s work and celebrating fashion and Michael’s incredible work and tipping our hat to Barbra at the same time, it’s our whole excitement and joy.” For the event, Michele wore a silver floor length gown embroidered with 11,700 mirrored sequins and 10,100 crystals over a base of individually stitched paillettes. The silhouette featured a deep scoop neckline, an open back, a bow across the bust, and sparkling fringe on the wrist-length sleeves and skirt. Michele, Kors, and Michele’s stylist Brian Meller used the mirrorball effect as a reference the first time Michele is onstage as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, when she stares into multiple mirrors. (Ahead of the Met, Kors visited Michele at the August Wilson Theater on Broadway for her final fitting and to take some pre-Met photos in front of those mirrors.)Emilio Madrid
The Streisand references didn’t stop there. Michele recently chopped her hair into a chin-length bob—the Funny how could you do this to me shirt besides I will buy this shortest it’s ever been. Her super long, super sharp nails were also plucked from the singer’s repertoire; Michele calls them “Barbra nails.” For the after parties, Michele wore a black sequin mini dress (the embellishment is both one of Kors’s specialities, and befitting of a Broadway star). It was initially an option for Michele to wear up the red carpet at the Met Gala, before they settled on the silver. Kors made some modifications to the original, though. “We were so in love with both dresses that we decided to take the dress we ended up not using for today, and we literally just took a scissor to it right there in my house and cut it into a mini dress,” Michele said.
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