{"id":655459,"date":"2026-05-07T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655459\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T12:15:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T12:15:18","slug":"how-fashions-biggest-night-shifted-focus-to-craft-and-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/655459\/","title":{"rendered":"How fashion\u2019s biggest night shifted focus to craft and construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For an event so often dismissed as fashion\u2019s most extravagant sideshow, the Met Gala has always had a surprisingly practical purpose: to raise money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. That tension \u2013 between spectacle and substance \u2013 has defined its modern identity.<\/p>\n<p>This year, however, something shifted. Beneath the expected noise around celebrity, sponsorships and protest, a quieter recalibration was under way: a return to craft.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For an event so often dismissed as fashion\u2019s most extravagant sideshow, the Met Gala has always had a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":655460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-655459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/655460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}