“Baz dreamt up an enchanted forest,” says Vogue Contributing Style Editor Max Ortega of working with director Baz Luhrmann on the much-anticipated musical efficiency ultimately night time’s 2024 Met Gala. For Luhrman’s tackle this spring’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Style” exhibition, Ariana Grande and her Depraved costar Cynthia Erivo arrived within the Nice Corridor because the shock performers haring the stage have been 30 dancers and a 40-person choir (to not point out a whole orchestra), all decked out in glittering magnificence.
It required a workforce of execs, as traditional. “Working with Michael Arden and the choreographers Creelo, we developed characters,” says Ortega of filling the stage with a “gold-soaked Sleepy Orchestra, pre-raphaelite Choir, attractive male satyrs and glitter-dusted Nymphettes.” He credit Bumble & Bumble World Inventive Ambassador Evanie Frausto and make-up artist Raisa Flowers for bringing the second to life. “For the primary time the efficiency started the second visitors walked in,” says Ortega of a trio of acts that began within the museum’s Nice Corridor, moved into the decision to dinner throughout cocktails, and “culminated within the awakening of our Sleeping Magnificence, Ariana.” Backstage, Frausto labored along with his workforce to ship pure gold—actually.
“We have now some actual gold leaf within the hair, which is tremendous enjoyable,” says Frausto of portray Bumble and Bumble’s BB.Gel onto performer’s pure hair to offer grip for the difficult materials. “Gold leaf is so laborious to work with, it is actually flimsy, and any little breeze of wind simply makes it fly away and flake,” he explains. “So it is actually about securing that down for us.” For dancers, he targeted on making a fantasy of pure texture. “It is like these fairies have been dwelling within the woods their entire lives, they usually’re simply form of cool and undone,” he explains. “We’re simply leaning into extra pure, very comfortable, clear, and pure textures. For folks with an attractive Afro texture, we’re stretching it and giving this good, ethereal look.”
