The carpet was “Brat” green–and Gucci green, too–at the LACMA Art+Film Gala Saturday night in Los Angeles that was capped off by a performance from Charli XCX.
The 13th annual event, sponsored by Gucci, honored film director Baz Luhrmann and artist Simone Leigh, and drew a high-wattage crowd to the Los Angeles County Museum, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Blake Lively, Kim Kardashian, Kaia Gerber, Laura Dern, Amy Sherald, Catherine Opie, Kering chief executive officer Francois-Henri Pinault and Gucci CEO Stefano Cantino and creative director Sabato De Sarno.
Wearing a blue velvet Gucci suit, natch, Luhrmann glided through the crowd with his wife, collaborator and costume designer Catherine Martin.
“I’m touched. There are awards and awards shows, but this stands for something which is a lack of silos between fashion, music and film. And that’s me, that’s what I’m about,” Luhrmann told WWD. “There are too many silos in the world.”
Baz Luhrmann, Catherine Martin at 2024 LACMA Art+Film Gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on November 2, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.
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“Monsters” series portrayers of the Menendez brothers —Cooper Koch and Nicholas Alexander Chavez — were catching up in the midst of the swirl. “I’m pinching myself,” said Koch of attending his first LACMA gala. As for being in the middle of the craziest only-in-L.A. story ever, with their Netflix series leading in part to a resentencing hearing for the brothers scheduled for Dec. 11 in L.A., he said, “I hope they get out, I wish them all the best.”
De Sarno mingled with Ricky Martin, Colman Domingo and others. He was wearing a white tuxedo with attitude and oversized black lapels from his new Hollywood-inspired 16-piece Gucci Notte eveningwear collection, which made its debut on models at the event.