Spring's Gorgeous Gowns

See the night's most darling dresses on the Olsens, Nicole Kidman and 10 other starlets at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala. By Emily Fromm and Rebecca Paley

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ELLE MACPHERSON

The supermodel took the comfortably elegant design of her Calvin Klein gown a step further – by wearing flip-flops. "I'm a surfer chick. What can I say?" explained Macpherson, who came with fiancé Arpad Busson for "a romantic weekend in New York. The kids (Flynn, 7, and Aurelius, 2) are back in London where we live. We've been looking at exhibitions and hanging out."