Each spring the brightest stars of the fashion, film, and society worlds turn out for the Costume Institute’s Met Ball in New York. And this year, TIME looks back at the 15 best dresses at the Ball ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melania Trump donated her Hervé Pierre inaugural gown to the Smithsonian Institution. (Photo: Getty Images) Melania Trump has made ...

Just last May, the world was captivated watching the royal wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. While many of us (almost all of us, honestly) will never get to marry a prince and become a ...

First Lady Michelle Obama formally presented the gown she wore to the 2009 inaugural balls to the Smithsonian’s First Ladies Collection Tuesday, March 9, during a ceremony at the National Museum of ...

NMAH director John Gray, designer Hervé Pierre, First Lady Melania Trump and Smithsonian secretary David Skorton pose with the silk crepe gown. National Museum of American History Beneath the smooth, ...

A look at the back of the strapless ball gown by Victor Edelstein. Courtesy of the Royal Marsden Hospital Cancer Fund/Sotheby’s Edelstein, a society dressmaker, crafted the gown for his Autumn 1989 ...

"For Emma, it was important that the dress was light and that it had a lot of movement," Beauty and the Beast costume designer Jacqueline Durran shared. "In Emma's reinterpretation, Belle is an active ...

Grant that gown a new lease on life as the Military Officers' Wives' Club of New Orleans is asking for donations of gently used fashions for Operation Free Ball Gown, an annual gathering of frocks for ...