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PATRICK ROBINSON CO-CHAIRS COSTUME INSTITUTE GALA BENEFIT WITH OPRAH WINFREY AND VOGUE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ANNA WINTOUR

Gap Partners with America’s Most Celebrated Young Design Talent to Create Original Gowns for Gala; Gowns Will Be Displayed at Gap Fifth Avenue for One Month Following the Gala and Auctioned Off by Gap to Benefit The Costume Institute
Gap Creates Limited Edition T-Shirt Collection in Celebration of its Sponsorship of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Spring 2010 Exhibition: “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity”
SAN FRANCISCO (APRIL 29, 2010) – Furthering its commitment to the arts, Gap is helping support The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Spring 2010 Costume Institute exhibition: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity (on view May 5 – August 15). As part of the iconic brand’s sponsorship, Gap Executive Vice President of Global Design, Patrick Robinson, will co-chair The Costume Institute Benefit on May 3 in New York City.

Inspired by the theme of this year’s exhibition, Gap reignited its relationships with current and past CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund winners–Alexander Wang, Rodarte, Sophie Theallet and Thakoon—to create original gowns for the Gala. The gowns, which will be credited as Alexander Wang for Gap, Rodarte for Gap, Sophie Theallet for Gap, and Thakoon for Gap, will be worn by eight well-known muses who span the fashion, music, film, television and Broadway realms. Alexander Wang will dress M.I.A. and Zoe Kravitz; Thakoon will dress Kerry Washington and Riley Keough; Jessica Alba and Vera Farmiga will don gowns by Sophie Theallet; and Rodarte will dress Kirsten Dunst and Jamie Bochert.