The Great Hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art was transformed into an enchanted palace of ice and crystal for the annual Costume Institute Spring Gala. Beneath the soaring neoclassical arches, two thousand white orchids cascaded from fifty-foot marble pillars. Five hundred of the world's most powerful financiers, foreign ambassadors, tech billionaires, and European royalty mingled under the brilliance of crystal chandeliers, the air buzzing with the low hum of…
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