The Albies Got a Gold Standard, and Amal Clooney Was Wearing It

Amal Clooney chose gold for the Albies, and she chose it in sequins, which is the version of gold that refuses to sit quietly under gala lighting. The effect of that many small mirrored discs moving at once is that the gown does the room's work for it: every chandelier and camera flash ends up reflected back from the hostess. In a crowd dressed for a serious evening, it was the look that pulled the eye without raising its voice. Precise, polished and unmissable, it is the kind of entrance our readers would recognize from any ballroom in Palm Beach.

With reporting from Harper's Bazaar.