Met Gala makes everyone reach for armor. I wanted to reach for instruments instead — the idea that the most powerful woman in the room is the one who understands how light bends. The Chuvash geometric tradition felt right against Sicilian baroque excess; both cultures understand ornamentation as mathematics. That apricot silk against all that brass — it's warmth meeting precision. She's not performing discovery; she's past that. She's in the aftermath of knowing. —Sable