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Masses ablog over Anna Wintour's futuristic Gala dress

Vogue Editor Anna Wintour departs from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala. (Getty Images Photo / May 5, 2008)

BY JOSEPH V. AMODIO | Special to Newsday

6:26 PM EDT, May 6, 2008

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Hours after Vogue's Anna Wintour appeared Monday night at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, celebrating the new "Superheroes" exhibit, the masses were ablog.

Her futuristic couture dress -- Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld -- was likened to a ram's head, Slinky, inner ear and celestial royalty (as in "Oh my God!!! Princess Leia!!") by commenters on gawker.com. The subtly named Wizbangpop.com declared it "one of a kindwhich is good because we don't need two of those."

Granted, it's not an easy dress, with its coils and nautilus shell pockets built to hold, well, way more than hands. But women have always toyed with body shape, from hoop skirts to torpedo bras.

So do fashion's cranksters dislike the dress -- or the woman wearing it?

"She's such an icy vixen," says OK magazine editor (and fellow Brit) Sarah Ivens. "But you just know there's someone with a warm sense of naughtiness underneath the designer duds."

Style pundit Lesley Scott, of fashiontribes.com, digs the superheroish vibe. "Just add matching Verdura cuffs and she could zoom off and fight (fashion) crime the world over."

Wintour requested Lagerfeld rework a dress from his spring couture line to reflect the evening's theme, say representatives from Vogue and Chanel. What with the evening being all about fashion's transformative powers, we wondered if she felt different in the dress.

According to the Vogue spokeswoman, Wintour laughed and replied, "Anyone would feel wonderful wearing Chanel haute couture."

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