Did you see that no-visible-means-of-support dress that Stella McCartney was wearing at the Met Gala? The one where she was standing next to Mary J. Blige, who was in an ivory Stella tuxedo and coat? Somehow, said dress, in white, forest-friendly viscose, was suspended from a wired off-the-shoulder infrastructure. It then swooped into a deep plunge, and flowed onwards into a sumptuous goddess-y drape.

But how does it stay on? “It’s architectural, almost like a Christo,” she explained on a Zoom call. “It’s suspended off a corset. The corsetry comes up, and it just captures you, and it just extends beyond the area of your bust and creates this dramatic silhouette. I love the simplicity of it, and the drama of it.” It turns out she was test-driving the studio prototype at the Met. “It feels

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