Guo Pei, Creator of Rihanna's Gold Met Gala Gown, on Finding Inspiration

PS: What do you hope for the future of the industry, given the conversations emerging from the pandemic, the climate crisis, and racial-justice movement?

GP: I believe it's our responsibility as designers to use materials that are sustainable. It's not something that we should only think about right now.

Fashion and style are languages that humans use to express the thoughts of today. These are things we can look back on, a way for the people to record their memory of the times. And it is the responsibility of all the artists to think about those things when they design.