Ask and you shall receive. Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination — the 2018 theme of Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) Gala delivered the promise of being provocative. Held in New York City on Monday night, the highly ticketed fashion event of the year was co-hosted by Rihanna, Amal Clooney and Donatella Versace. And it wouldn't be hyperbole to say its Biblical theme was primed to cause a tension between the sacred and the secular. Celebrities hit the red carpet wearing papal-inspired gowns, sacred tiaras and crucifix, and trust Rihanna to take it up several notches with a shimmering Pope's mitre (headdress)."

"Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another. Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion," curator Andrew Bolton said in a statement on The Met's website.