Karlie Kloss Red Carpet May 2017

Karlie Kloss was photographed carrying Tyler Ellis on her way to the Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art earlier this month in New York. Karlie looked chic in all black with her Tyler Ellis Lily Clutch ($2,695,  www.tylerellis.com).  She looks fabulous on the red carpet.

The Costume Institute's collection of more than 35,000 costumes and accessories represents five continents and seven centuries of fashionable dress, regional costumes, and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

The Costume Institute organizes two exhibitions annually; due to the sensitive nature of textiles, the collection is not on permanent public view. However, two fashion-focused tours are available year round: "Fashion in Art," a tour led by Costume Institute docents that discusses costume history within the context of the Museum's collections of armor, textiles, paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts; and "Costume: The Art of Dress," a recorded Audio Guide narrated by the actress Sarah Jessica Parker that highlights historical costume throughout the Museum's galleries.

The Costume Institute began as the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity formed in 1937 and led by Neighborhood Playhouse founder Irene Lewisohn. In 1946, with the financial support of the fashion industry, the Museum of Costume Art merged with The Metropolitan Museum of Art as The Costume Institute, and in 1959 became a curatorial department.

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Do you know who else attended the Costume Institute's event this year?  Courtney Love at the Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Learn about the Metropolitan Museum of Art.