Of the dozens of looks at the Met Gala, these 15 stood out as some that will be hard to forget, just like the blue carpet, which had a daffodil print that gave it more pizazz than the average red rug.

Monday evening was both counterprogramming — as the Trump administration mounts an assault on the arts — and, in a delicious, at times radical, twist, a course correction.

Mostly black-and-white looks populated the daffodil-accented deep-blue carpet covering the steps to the Metropolitan Museum of Art museum door Monday.