Delivering her speech at this Saturday’s LACMA Art + Film Gala – Anna Wintour, who is friends and has worked with Baz Luhrmann for many years, told a funny story about Rihanna. Wintour’s celebration was all about praising Luhrmann for his outstanding, daring achievements in fashion and even for cinema.
She remembered this story at the Met Gala where, in his imaginative vision, it got the right place to be. Yes, as a matter of fact, the Chinese Art and Fashion Exhibition was the theme at the time of the Met Gala. Wintour recalled how Luhrmann would claim the event could not proceed with a massive gong for calling dinner. Then, with staff frantically searching and trying to locate and deliver the slightly awkward instrument to Luhrmann, he was somehow able to convince Rihanna to do a surprise turn, gyrating down the centre of the dinner table.
However, as Wintour pointed out, we decided not to give dinners there any longer ‘but still no one has omitted to discuss that night.’ Such confusion was plenty of other times when daredevil ideas, as well as the gigantic creativity of Luhrmann, turned the event into a perfectly memorable one. Luhrmann was honoured at the gala with the most famous films, ‘Romeo + Juliet,’ ‘Moulin Rouge!’, ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Elvis. ‘Here, he borrowed one of the many stylish suits by Gucci and took a moment there to urge future generations to handle artists’ work carefully in the future.
Therefore, he urged the guest crowd here to do anything that could be done to promote young people for creative posts. He considered that the modern idea of art is necessary for the rapid transformation of the cultural environment associated with it. It is our responsibility now to turn around and make space, to raise the new voices, energies, and generations,” Luhrmann urged his fellow artists to create more space for the younger artists.
He clarified that he did not refer to retirement but the responsibility of his generation to help bring forth more talent, just as those generations had done before them. The message was clear and straightforward: the burden of established artists is breaking down the barriers and opening spaces for new ideas and innovation.
