International stars Salt-N-Pepa have joined a bevy of local famous faces at the National Gallery of Victoria this evening for the third-annual NGV Gala. Take a look at all the pictures from the red carpet.
Art, fashion and society collided in a show of glamour and sophistication at the NGV Gala.
The third-annual NGV Gala celebrated the opening of the much hyped world-premiere exhibition, Keith Haring & Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines which showcases the work of two of the world’s most celebrated conceptual artists.
International fashion identities Elizabeth and Georgia May Jagger, the daughters of Rolling Stone’s lead singer Mick Jagger, arrived from Los Angeles this (SAT) morning and walked the red carpet as special guest of NGV.
Their mother, Jerry Hall, is featured in the exhibition in a polaroid photographed by celebrity stylist and artist Maripol in New York in the 1980s.
The sisters said their supermodel mother would have loved the exhibition.
“She is here with us in spirit. We can’t wait to tell her what it is like, she will be very happy,” Georgia May said.
“The exhibition is incredible,” said Elizabeth.
“There is so much history and so much colour. It is like being transported back to Manhattan in the ‘80s.”
Elizabeth revealed she was urging her father to bring the Rolling Stones back to Australia for a tour.
“I have not been here since our father last performed which was two and a half years ago,” she said.
“We have already told him and he knows that he has to come back here because we have a very big extended Australian family, so he has to come back here for a reunion.”
The sisters will head back to the US on Tuesday.
Music mogul Michael Gudinski applauded the exhibition.
“Melbourne is music, Melbourne is Mushroom, Melbourne is art,
Melbourne is one of the greatest cities in the world and I am very impressed that the arts has absorbed contemporary music so much.”
Acclaimed milliner and Melbourne fashion identity Richard Nylon said the NGV Gala gave the city a chance to express itself.
“This is the event that calls for colour,” Nylon said.
“It references the early ‘80s and that was all about colour and movement and bling and fabulousness and shoulder pads.”
He said the fashion was an art form everyone could embrace.
“Fashion is an applied art. You take the hand skills, you take the machine skills and the technological skills and they can be applied to any art and can be applied to clothing,” he said.
“We all have to get dressed so why not make it fabulous.”
Other guests included supermodel, Andreja Pejic in a Romance Was Born gown, fashion star Akiima in Viktor & Rolf, Rachel Griffiths, Gemma Ward, Isabel
Lucas, Samantha Harris, Megan Gale and her partner Shaun Hampson, Phoebe Tonkin, Magda Szubanski, Bella Heathcote, Isabella Giovinazzo, Megan Washington, Kate Ceberano, Courtney Barnett, Rebecca Judd, designers Jacob Luppino and Anthony Pittorino and Linda Jackson.
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