Joan Collins on Why She desired to Honor The condominium of Valentino (and Alexis Carrington!) on the Met Gala

Joan Collins basically received into persona for the Met Gala last night. simply before strolling the crimson carpet, Dame Collins shared a video on Valentino's social media money owed during which she declared, "I'm Alexis Morell Carrington Colby Dexter Rowan and i'm donning Valentino haute couture for the Met Ball." certainly, the legendary actress certainly looked the a part of the love-to-hate-her lead Alexis, whom she performed on the famed 1980s tv show Dynasty. The white feathered costume with tiered ruffles, which she topped off with a variety of diamonds and a tiara, is precisely the sort of style excess that Alexis, by means of Collins, embraced with wide-open hands back within the day. actually, she became it into a full-on vogue trend. despite the camp-appropriate, tongue-in-cheek throwback, despite the fact, there turned into in fact a more sentimental cause that Collins selected to wear Valentino to this yr's gala. She and Valentino Garavani, foun ding father of the apartment, have been dear chums for decades.

"I first met him in 1968 in Rome," Collins spoke of post-event, this morning, over e mail. "i was hunting for whatever thing to wear at a television appearance and somebody recommended a brand new young fashion designer who would be chuffed to dress me. in view that then, Signor Garavani and i were very close friends and have loved taking part collectively. He's designed a few outfits for my movies and tv appearances during the a long time, which i am hoping now to proceed together with his deserving successor Pierpaolo." And so she has, starting closing nighttime with, in Collins's phrases, the "dependent, royal, glamorous, magical" Pierpaolo Piccioli–designed costume. The method all all started, based on the actress, "two months in the past, when Pierpaolo began to send me a few outstanding sketches and we spoke well-nigh on an everyday groundwork to high-quality-tune the design." Collins notes of her plumed ensemble, "He have to have idea i used to be mad because I insisted on more and more feathers!" The appear actually spoke to Susan Sontag's word that camp is "a woman going for walks round in a costume made from three million feathers." For Collins, whose hair and make-up for the red carpet became done through stylist Joey Maalouf, it was additionally concerning the tiny glittering crown atop her head: "What's extra camp than a tiara?"

When it changed into time for Collins to walk into the gala with her new friend and vogue fairy godfather Piccioli, she concept lovingly about her lengthy heritage with Garavani and realized the second, after years of dressing in Valentino—both for the pink carpet and onscreen—was nothing short of "surreal." It turned into additionally, she said, "very challenging to maneuver 50 red steps in a large skirt and 5-inch heels." If anyone might pull off one of these feat in Valentino Couture, it's Collins—with a bit aid from the divine spirit of Alexis Carrington, of course.

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