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Seduced by Paul Poiret's visionary 1915 collection, Vogue wrote, "All this combines to create a fearsome air of luxury in which the most prudent female minds lose the sense of economy and yield themselves to the sheer intoxication of elegance." And so sartorial history repeated itself at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's party of the year, a superstar-saturated salute to the French couturier in conjunction with the Costume Institute's exhibit "Poiret: King of Fashion," curated by Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton and sponsored by Balenciaga. The evening was made possible by honorary chair Francois-Henri Pinault, cochairs Cate Blanchett and Nicolas Ghesquiere, and many members of ...