The world's most stylish fashionistas, singers, actors and hangers-on made their way to The Metropolitan Museum of Art last night for the Costume Institute's Gala. This year the institute honored the late, great French designer Paul Poiret. Poiret's stunning designs drew on both Oriental and art deco aesthetic, but constantly revolved around his favorite flower: the rose.

Our invitation must have gotten lost in the mail, so we had to live vicariously through press images. Shame, because we would have loved to pick Tom Ford and French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld's respective brains. Oh well, there's always next year.

Take a look at some more shots, after the jump...

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Friday we're in love, but Saturday's all about Drive-Ins. That is, if we lived near a drive-in and it wasn't so fucking cold. So we'll just have to settle for David Bowie singing about a "Drive-In Saturday", which actually may be better than actually going to the drive-in. Unless we got some head. That'd even the score a little.

(Also, don't you just love how the announcer fades away, as if consumed by the very glamour he celebrates?)

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