In short order it developed that she would. Muñoz, strapping in shorts and a T-shirt, looked as though he had come from the gym. Dion was deeply tanned and had her hair skinned back in a taut ballerina bun. They were seated in a soundproof recording booth inside Studio at the Palms in Las Vegas, high in a tower of the newly renovated Palms resort. Dion’s principal stylist, sharing the duties with Sydney Lopez.
“She can’t say no,” said Pepe Muñoz, a fashion illustrator and former dancer who is Ms. Friends of the 51-year-old star point out that not only is she a clotheshorse, one whose increasingly adventurous wardrobe antics have inspired countless memes and what New York magazine’s The Cut referred to as a “Dionnaissance,” she is also a shopper. “I don’t beg for a gift.”Īnyone who knows Celine Dion can attest to that. “I buy,” said a woman whose personal fortune, amassed over four decades in show business, is widely estimated at close to a billion dollars. Perhaps she will retain the ensemble, which resembles what a sainted Vegas showgirl might wear to meet St. Dion may not have to return an outfit that - with its references to Old Hollywood glamour, to both Busby Berkeley and Elizabeth Berkley and notionally to the theme of the new Costume Institute exhibition, “Camp: Notes on Fashion” - is like the raiment for a show business apotheosis. One of the many ways that Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor and the Met Gala’s benevolent dictator, cannily rejiggered what was once an opportunity for society people to flaunt their couture finery is that a hefty percentage of its 550 attendees will be wearing clothes they do not own.īut wait. Like so many of the specially commissioned rigs worn by celebrity Cinderellas at this annual tournament of fixed smiles, bulldozer fund-raising and cross-platform brand promotion, the Oscar de la Renta extravaganza is probably destined to return to its makers sometime after the clock strikes midnight.