One day in early November, the painter Anna Weyant took a friend with her to shop for a coat to wear to LACMA’s annual Art + Film Gala. Even by the contemporary art world’s extravagant standards, this gala creates a uniquely powerful blizzard of money, glamour, and prestige by bringing together just the right blend of Hollywood celebrity and adjacent art world royalty—which is to say, heavy on the Hollywood. For the evening, Dolce & Gabbana dressed the 28-year-old Weyant in a sheer black mesh dress, floor-length and dotted with crystals. A pair of black satin high-rise panties and a matching plunge bra would be plainly visible underneath. With this ensemble, her butter blond coif, and delicately contoured features, Weyant would, perhaps, look more like a young actress than a humble New York painter.
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