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Paolo Sebastian Takes Us Behind The Scenes Of The Met Gala

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Paolo Sebastian Takes Us Behind The Scenes Of The Met Gala

Paolo Sebastian Takes Us Behind The Scenes Of The Met Gala

Sunday, 5th May 2024
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I'm Clare Murphy. This is Mamma Mia's

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daily news podcast, The Quickie. Want

0:50

to get ready for the Met Gala with me? We're

0:53

going to be speaking to an Aussie designer

0:55

who's had a dress appear on a Met

0:57

Gala red carpet to find out just how

0:59

much prep goes into getting a garment Met

1:01

ready. But first, here's the latest from

1:03

the Quickie newsroom, Monday, May 6. There's

1:06

relief for more than three million Aussies with

1:09

their student debt decreased by a change in

1:11

indexation. Education Minister Jason

1:13

Clare announced on Saturday that the

1:15

government will cap the Higher Education

1:17

Loan Program, or HELP, indexation rate,

1:19

eliminating around $3 billion in

1:22

student debt. The new

1:24

capped rate ensuring indexation would reflect

1:26

whichever is lower, the CPI, or

1:28

Consumer Price Index, or WPI, the

1:30

Wage Price Index. The change will

1:32

be backdated to June 2023, which means the massive 7.1% increase will

1:37

be decreased to 3.2%, with

1:40

all HELP debts receiving an indexation

1:42

credit. The Perth Muslim

1:44

community say they're bracing for potential backlash

1:47

after a radicalised teenager stabbed a man

1:49

outside a Bunnings store. The

1:51

16-year-old called Triple Zero, threatening acts of

1:53

violence from the car park of the

1:56

Bunnings in Willerton, south of Perth. Responding

1:58

officers deployed tasers when the boy rushed

2:00

at them but the tactic failed the

2:02

boy continuing to threaten police before a

2:04

single fatal shot brought him to the

2:06

ground. He was known to police and

2:08

had a history of mental health and

2:11

radicalization issues. The Imam at Perth's

2:13

largest mosque condemned the attack saying there's no

2:15

place for violence in Islam saying this was

2:17

close to home and that any one of

2:19

the community could have been at that store

2:22

on Saturday. The injured man in his 30s

2:24

was taken to hospital where he's in a

2:26

serious but stable condition. Mexican

2:28

authorities believe the death of two Australian

2:30

brothers and their American friend while on a

2:32

surfing trip to Mexico was the result of

2:35

a robbery gone wrong. Investigators

2:37

searching for Jack and Callum Robinson and their

2:39

friend Jack Carter-Road found three bodies in a

2:41

well near where the trio had been camping.

2:43

One of their mobile phones was later traced

2:46

to a woman who's since been arrested as

2:48

well as her boyfriend and another man police

2:50

believe may be behind the death of the

2:52

surfers. The car they were driving was later

2:55

found having been set on fire. A gun

2:57

found in the burned-out wreck belonged to an

2:59

individual currently under investigation. The Robinsons

3:01

boys parents are currently on their

3:04

way to Mexico to identify the

3:06

bodies of their sons. Their devastated mother

3:08

saying their only comfort is that they

3:10

were together doing something they passionately love.

3:14

Croatia's Eurovision entrant baby lasagna has

3:16

overtaken Switzerland as the bookies favorite

3:18

to take out this year's competition.

3:21

The 28 year old is singing a

3:23

song about a young Croatian who leaves his hometown

3:25

to become a city boy with better opportunities.

3:27

The song overtaking the Swiss entrant

3:29

Nemo who will perform his song The

3:31

Code, a drum and bass opera rap

3:34

and rock extravaganza about the singer's

3:36

journey of self-discovery as non-binary. Ukraine

3:38

who won the whole thing two

3:40

years ago is the third favorite to

3:42

win. Australia's entry this year is Electric Fields

3:44

with the song called One Macaulay One

3:46

Blood. Eurovision kicks off 5

3:49

A.m. Wednesday Australian Eastern Standard Time

3:51

with the grand Final on Saturday.

3:53

That's what's going on in the

3:55

world today. Next Met Gala Prep

3:57

is exhausting, extensive, and very expensive.

4:00

Big to a designer. he's had one of

4:02

his creations wolf that same as red carpet

4:04

to find out just how hectic these Los

4:06

del Pri met prep half. The

4:20

Season we New York's Metropolitan Museum

4:22

of Art entrance Local celebrities from

4:24

across the globe dressed in creations

4:27

from the minds of some of

4:29

the most same as designers. We

4:31

talking of course about Summit Salaf

4:33

happening around Ice Am Australian Eastern

4:35

Standard time tomorrow say will be

4:38

right now Armies of frantic assistance

4:40

stylists, makeup artists, the hairdressers and

4:42

celebrities preparing for one of the

4:44

most photographed events on the social

4:46

calendar. The

4:49

Mets Allah is held on the first

4:51

Monday in my every year and it

4:53

raises money for the museums costume institute.

4:55

they'll be so casing dresses in a

4:57

collection code sleeping. Beauty Dps. No.

4:59

Not Disney princesses or nightgowns dresses that

5:01

have been hidden in our climb or

5:04

that a really brought out. Say that

5:06

if I tell condition the event actually

5:08

started all the way back in Nineteen

5:10

Forty Eight with Manhattan socialites coming together

5:13

sharing dinner and drinks at midnight at

5:15

the venue for not sending them back.

5:17

C C Dollars a head in comparison

5:19

to New York Times reports that a

5:22

single seek the metal and now costs

5:24

seventy five thousand dollars for a single

5:26

or three hundred and fifty grand for

5:28

a table. With i panicked

5:30

to the slip sank balances friends. Of and

5:33

pay for them. It would

5:35

evolve from the midnight dinners into a big

5:37

party held at the Waldorf. Astoria with

5:39

guests encouraged. To where they most

5:41

formal attire. The dress code seems began

5:43

in the Nineteen seventies when then, like

5:45

Editor in Chief Diana Vreeland became special

5:48

consultant to the Costume Institute. The first

5:50

same in Nineteen Seventy Three was a

5:52

memorial to Christie Bilbo and see Aga

5:54

year after his death after Anna Wintour

5:56

took over the event in the mid

5:58

nineties. It is growing. A full

6:00

scale celebrity hyper. This is second

6:03

the museum now with stars for music,

6:05

passion for television and movies all come

6:07

together on the very same I target

6:10

for now considered to be the most

6:12

exclusive best an event on the planet

6:14

is a Lady Gaga in Vale, not

6:17

one not sue that multiple looks as

6:19

he walks the red carpet sitting, layers

6:21

of her gowns as he climbed the

6:24

stairs from losing layers and layers of

6:26

secret Princess Diana's Nineteen Ninety Six silky

6:28

blue loans are a number considered one

6:30

of his so. Called Revenge Dresses

6:33

one the same you see? Divorced

6:35

From sounds. Like

6:37

Lively has channels assess you of Liberty

6:39

Dodge a cat has come as an

6:41

actual cats as has soured litter. That.

6:43

The undisputed queen of this event is

6:45

singer reanimate his first appearance old way

6:48

back in two thousand and seven. had

6:50

a looking like she was off to

6:52

prom. her stunningly simple white dress accessorized

6:54

with just a single. Red Rose. So.

6:57

Fast forward to twenty a sane and

6:59

her iconic heavenly bodies seemed outfit had

7:01

her resembling the put in a beaded

7:03

zone Galliani creation that the cell said

7:05

was so heavy. Every step on the

7:08

topic was like she was doing squats.

7:10

Students. Time it's not that have been

7:12

definitely gain from that night cp it on

7:14

the Graham Norton so you flight away. He

7:16

soared her picture that dress and asked how

7:18

she possibly got into the cost says he

7:20

says a look from a few years earlier

7:23

was a much tougher one to drive to

7:25

the event or this will. Be the

7:27

case, Comforts of the yellow situation. Abundant

7:29

in Darfur. then I have put it on

7:31

in the current foot Zittrain as he had

7:33

a come out first so that I was

7:36

like how many p dragging it out? That

7:38

is something else. They had something on planes

7:40

and. Not the only

7:42

one he says they've suffered for they met

7:45

Gala look team per se and famously war

7:47

as hearing the Blair Witch look down for

7:49

the Twenty nineteen camp seemed Valla which took

7:51

eight months to make the designer coming out

7:53

of retirement to create is it also requires

7:56

a soda what's had diet and were an

7:58

incredibly. Restrictive courses. Order

8:00

to showcase the garments tiny waist line. This

8:02

year hi I'm wearing marry me were

8:04

more than. That far as you like have

8:07

always had the sixty minutes since him you were

8:09

in place. Such a full. Circle Dream

8:11

scenario. But it's like a

8:13

responsibility for me because I'm

8:15

sure after nine twenty years

8:17

want it to be something

8:19

magical arsenal and a new

8:22

one more. Year

8:25

but. If

8:30

you missed what he says at the end of that, she's praying

8:32

that should be able. To breathe. And won't

8:34

have to go to the toilet that as

8:36

you know so fit month. Going back and

8:39

forth with the owners of Marilyn Monroe's famous

8:41

nineteen Sixty Two Happy Birthday Mister President dress.

8:43

Which. He wore the Twenty Twenty Two Met

8:45

Gala which she also had to lose a

8:47

substantial amount of wait to see the answer.

8:49

He took thirty hours to dye her hair

8:51

blond in the lead up to the Nice

8:53

and required her having a special drop off

8:55

point on route to change into the dress

8:57

you to have been so fragile she then

9:00

or to change straight back out of it

9:02

and into a replica of the Walking The

9:04

Red Carpet but it didn't know. Go off

9:06

without a hits and so much going on

9:08

I don't even look up until it's too

9:10

late and realize that we had. One. Drop

9:12

off. At

9:14

least oversight. It around.

9:20

Every one of them at. This.

9:23

Year's Met Gala dress code name is

9:25

the Garden of Time so we can

9:27

expect a whole lot of flowers, another

9:29

foliage and a half. Back to looks

9:31

evolved. The guest list has some fun

9:33

inclusions this year than diet jello, Chris

9:35

Hemsworth is that funny are the Coaches

9:37

Window and Christie. Lala Anthony actually graham

9:40

an image chamberlain. Ah, the red carpet.

9:43

I Love Sleeps Boyfriend: Travis Kill. He's

9:45

making his debut alongside Hurts. Madonna will

9:48

be then ran or cause although she

9:50

says these he's he's keeping it simple.

9:52

Fiance Billie I least an agenda Kardashian

9:54

crew will be in attendance suits that.

9:57

What exactly does. It take to get ready for

9:59

the miss. The lads will start

10:01

they body and Skyn press as soon as

10:03

I get an invite to the night that

10:05

sense sometimes doesn't have any to pluck close

10:07

to the offense. Silas then begin the hunt

10:09

for that has the gown as soon as

10:11

at him but drops many of them hire

10:13

a photographer to take a pre met sort

10:15

of the look before they even had to

10:17

that red carpet. For

10:20

Vessel as is the founder and design

10:22

a behind the iconic or the label

10:24

Palace Sebastian, he's sounding down with worn

10:26

by Canadian Tv stars Guilty Night at

10:28

the Twenty Eighteen event Heavenly Bodies. Oh

10:31

what's it mean to have your gown wolf?

10:33

that red carpet? the sissy when your base

10:35

down here in Israeli? So ah, from the

10:38

European and Us fashion houses. What's the feeling

10:40

knowing your gown is in the mix. Of

10:42

all those I think the Met

10:44

is one of those red carpet his

10:46

passion parker for probably the are the

10:48

red carpet but how such a

10:50

passion parker to work for it it

10:53

is such as foods do the degree

10:55

for an Australian Bram to get a

10:58

placement it's really be on the

11:00

red carpet where you're focusing pretty much

11:02

solely on the court and and got

11:04

the room supply and really experiment and

11:07

think outside the box or putting

11:09

placement on their the she John Merrick

11:11

rotting. I'm. Really interested to

11:13

know how you works with

11:15

the celeb who wore your

11:17

gown because Kill Tonight is

11:19

a Canadian star. Obviously.

11:22

That if a long, long way away. The

11:25

suffer so. How do you

11:27

organize beatings and. All.

11:30

Of those things with someone when they're on the other side

11:32

of the planet. What? We worked with

11:34

Karate for a lot number of years

11:37

now so we have quite a good

11:39

relationship with her but majority of our

11:41

clients how is actually Rbc. I'm into

11:43

state so we've got quatre pressing process

11:45

in place for doing feelings and all

11:47

about sars, taking measurements and making sure

11:49

that we've got the right measurement that

11:51

will reduce them. Mates. A

11:53

mannequin to that clients proportions himself. So

11:56

with that, something to sit sir And

11:58

we've got an amazing thing. I'm

12:02

making sure that everything fits perfectly. So

12:04

when I approached us and requesting that

12:06

down which is actually from our Disney

12:08

collection month Upon a Dream, he has

12:11

the kiss of True Love honor in

12:13

the center. sorry, I think that was

12:15

what Drew county to that design in

12:17

the first place. So then we took

12:19

the dress my the Alterations Matrix with

12:21

fitted to her proportions and sent it

12:24

over and it thankfully fits perfectly. For.

12:26

How long before the neck down to see Try

12:28

that dress on for the first time? I rl.

12:31

I think it was about. Two to

12:33

three months beforehand because that's quite a

12:35

shortly time really when we're talking about

12:37

a critical address because these pieces are

12:39

handmade, hand embroidered and a lot of

12:41

the people that are going to the

12:44

Met don't find out and to very

12:46

last minute. And that's the case for

12:48

most of the red carpet that we

12:50

do. so it is working to quite

12:52

tight deadlines most of the time and

12:54

in some cases. Will. Get Colin.

12:57

Maybe. A week before. Cyclists.

12:59

I haven't seen the stress and millions

13:01

of people have because it's one of

13:04

the most photographed events in the world.

13:06

But it's a beautiful black. Yeah, we

13:08

sat red hot shape in the middle.

13:10

Were all of these threads pulling together

13:12

and it doesn't really look like a

13:14

night sky. almost stars exploding That you

13:16

say this is like hands sign hand

13:19

stitched to a how long does it

13:21

take to actually make this comment. From

13:23

scratch from scratch, it's about three

13:25

months worth of work inside. The

13:27

Downs I worked on by out

13:29

whole team, not just designing but

13:31

cutting, pattern, matching, fitting. Even before

13:33

the dresses actually made in, the

13:35

actual fabric we make was called.

13:37

it's while said like a prototype

13:39

of the design where we work

13:41

out the design, line, the fit

13:43

you know for example.dress the Heart

13:45

is actually got love courts from

13:47

Sleeping Beauty embroidered in the skirt

13:49

and throughout so you know the

13:51

placement of that. Deciding what courts are

13:54

going on there, deciding the thread colors,

13:56

All of that. It's months and months

13:58

of work. Health. In feel,

14:00

Poulter has months and months and

14:02

hours and hours of work on

14:04

this one dress. Have. A

14:06

filter them like sin that out into the world

14:09

because then you will lie for for on the

14:11

person who wears that gown to do it justice.

14:13

How does that feel That feel a little bit

14:15

like you know sending kids out the empty nesting?

14:17

What does it feel. I have absolutely. And

14:20

you darby as I've gotten better at

14:22

it. We old

14:24

are you a good team and I

14:26

thought to myself with has this really

14:28

strong personal attachment to these pieces particular

14:30

ago that worked on our. Side.

14:33

When something go out the your immensely

14:35

proud that your heart that to get

14:37

photographed in the right where you harper

14:39

from one place for train out correctly

14:41

you hard the oldest ocelot and I'm

14:43

in in this case if you look

14:45

out that he of the foreigners of

14:47

karate she looks incredible am that type

14:49

of place.probably the trying to fight or

14:51

probably the stairs and everything much him

14:54

with the heart. So. Everything is

14:56

working together in those borders but you

14:58

hold your breath waiting to see the

15:00

peace walked down the red carpet. Toward.

15:02

Your fingers must tweets. When you watch these

15:05

things. Yeah, When he told. Me about like the

15:07

little placements of the little bits of fabric. and as he

15:09

said, the train in the cage a thing as monsters. Be

15:11

eating to be there in touch. It. Or.

15:13

Absolutely. And the I used to

15:15

watch these red carpet. Or. Like

15:17

a degree or something about the oscars are used to

15:19

watch her as a kid. Am starting

15:22

out your arm from Adelaide are was

15:24

told from a very young age. Your

15:26

dreams are very over the top earners.

15:28

You want to proceed his career going

15:30

up to move overseas or it's just

15:32

not can be possible for you because

15:34

you're from Adelaide or from Australia about

15:36

just took a couple sorry to them

15:38

thirty years later. see it happening is

15:40

just the best feeling world. Oh.

15:43

How do you feel about this? He is

15:45

theme the garden of time. There's been lots

15:47

of conjecture about what outfits are going to

15:49

be walking that red carpet. There's lots of

15:51

talk obviously of flowers. In foliage and all

15:53

those kinds. Of things that what sort of things

15:55

do you think will be walking. The red Carpet this

15:57

year as a getting paid to in so many

15:59

ways. I suspect that there

16:01

will be a lot of archival

16:03

pieces cause when we think of

16:05

a god and there are so

16:07

many different things that make up

16:09

a god and different flowers, different

16:11

form of laura so I think

16:13

they'll be a room eclectic mix

16:15

Aws archival pieces and people may

16:17

be making a reference to some

16:20

historical fashion moments perhaps. The. You're

16:22

a celebrity that you really find the

16:24

most interesting in made fashion choices when

16:26

they tend dissident. Look. I

16:28

love Jennifer Lopez since Nineteen

16:31

Ninety Nine or see. The coach

16:33

a this you say she's riding their.

16:35

Yes, I'm very excited to the Things

16:37

Your Looks Amazing! She's got her installs.

16:39

I hope she sticks to the jailer

16:41

looks and translates it's a that and

16:44

puts her lens on that same by

16:46

things and I are as well. Always

16:48

know that and she's probably the one

16:50

that I'm. Most. Excited to

16:52

see! and she's also kutcher! I

16:54

wonder if jailer could pull that? Infamous.

16:57

Dress Up Again. Then I she's worn

16:59

it for a second time. The one

17:01

that started Google Images. That's. A. Moment in

17:04

history And you know that. I

17:07

be interesting to see if

17:10

she does been suffering from

17:12

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