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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Okay, so Scarlett Johansson wasn't attacked by drag queens, but she was celebrated as Harvard's Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year. The Puddingers stand as the nation's oldest undergraduate theater troupe, so rest assured none of them will be enrolling in Michael Lucas films anytime soon. Unless, of course, they're like Teddy Prince.

Of the honor, Ms. Johansson had this to say:

Thank you so much for this fabulous golden pot. It's been such a wonderful day. This is the closest I'll ever get to a Harvard degree... I can't wait till later tonight when we party.

• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers is into shoes and gossip according to Scarlett Johannson. That’s funny. So are we! [Left Coast Breakdown]

• England’s equivalent to the Grammy awards, the Brits, were announced and two Queerty faves were nominated: the strangely beautiful Kate Bush and the beautifully strange Antony and the Johnsons. [WOW Report]

• The official Wigstock site has been revamped and they’re selling really cute, really gay shirts. We want one. [Lady Bunny]

• Some New Yorkers are in a tizzy because of the closing of the 2nd Avenue Deli. [Gridskipper]

• We’re alright though. We’ve always been much bigger fans of Veselka, the place for Ukrainian soul food. It one block away and has killer sauerkraut. [Veselka]