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[Anna] How he can create a dream, create a fantasy.

It's a kind of theater.

The Met Ball is the Superbowl of social fashion events.

The star of this evening is Andrew Bolton.

[Andrew] This show is meant to be controversial,

but I'm not afraid of controversy.

[Anna] Andrew is the real visionary.

It's rare to find someone so creative

that they change the way you look at art.

This is the biggest show we've ever done.

It's huge.

We want to be careful between the costumes

that we don't completely obscure the Chinese

works of art.

[Male] It's not Disneyland.

There is the perennial debate about whether fashion

can ever be art.

What we do is applied art.

I never, never dream that my clothes

should be in a museum.

You need the mixture of art (mumbles).

Anna's gift is to cross fertilize.

It's like a giant aquarium on that night.

Beyonce, Kim and Kanye, Chastain, Julianne Moore.

I thought he wasn't coming.

I know, but then he decided he wanted to come.

Okay, can you not be on his cellphone the entire time.

Loud and clear.

There's a lot of political hurdles.

Some of the topics at the exhibition is the dress theme,

could be interpreted as being racist.

This is just going to look like a Chinese restaurant.

We're honestly (mumbles) timeframe.

[Anna] We have a lot to do.

Rihanna, we can't lose her, right?

We just didn't realize how expensive.

[Andrew] We have basically two days to install

the whole exhibition.

We're driving everyone crazy.

I don't know what to do, we just don't the seats.

[Andrew] We just underestimated the scale of the show.

And then Jennifer Lawrence is.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rihanna.

(screams)

[Male] Wow.

[Male] Oh, my god.

Oh, my god.

Got a party tonight.

[Male] This is the queen of the night.

[Male] Sense of mystery and danger.

[Male] This room is a dream.

[Anna] I think passion should be recognized.

What's up, Met Ball?

(applause)

When it touches people and moves people.

I mean, what more can you ask from art?