For Louisa Jacobson, a star of The Gilded Age on HBO, the 2022 Met Gala dress code of “gilded glamour” was a no-brainer
Photo: OK McCausland . She’d already spent months immersing herself in the world of her character, Marian Brook, the wide-eyed niece of Agnes Van Rhijn and Ada Brook who moves to Manhattan in 1882 and finds herself in the middle of a battle between “new money” and “old money.” She was all too familiar with what it felt like to wear a corset, a bustle, and a big hat for hours on end . And she understood the less opulent side of the theme as well. But because Jacobson had spent so much time as Ms.
Unlike other attendees, Jacobson hoped to avoid a corset. “At this point, it’s kind of a joke to me how many times I’ve complained about wearing corsets to the press, so to show up in one willingly in my off time would be really silly,” she said with a laugh. At one point during filming, her corsets were so tight she couldn’t sleep on her side because it made her ribs sore.
Being an art-history buff, Jacobson was able to draw comparisons to works at the Met. The dress reminded her of one painting in particular by John Singer Sargent titled Lady With the Rose. The sitter, Charlotte Louise Burckhardt, was the 20-year-old daughter of a Swiss merchant and his American wife, and she bears an uncanny resemblance to Jacobson and her character on The Gilded Age in more ways than one.
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