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Actresses Lupita Nyong'o (L), Margot Robbie (C), and Emma Watson arrive at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology" in the Manhattan borough of New York, May 2, 2016. REUTERS

Once again the Met Gala came, and all eyes were on who was wearing what. In case you are not in the know, the Met Gala is an annual fundraising shindig for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York.

To put it plainly, this is where A-listers meet to claim couture bragging rights, and raise some serious change for a good cause.

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