Posts by Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes

Sara Barnes is a Staff Editor at My Modern Met, Manager of My Modern Met Store, and co-host of the My Modern Met Top Artist Podcast. As an illustrator and writer living in Seattle, she chronicles illustration, embroidery, and beyond through her blog Brown Paper Bag and Instagram @brwnpaperbag. She wrote a book about embroidery artist Sarah K. Benning titled "Embroidered Life" that was published by Chronicle Books in 2019. Sara is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned her BFA in Illustration in 2008 and MFA in Illustration Practice in 2013.


May 4, 2022

See the Fashion-Forward Men at the 2022 Met Gala Who Took Risks With Their Ensembles

The annual Met Gala is a time when it’s encouraged for attendees to push the boundaries of fashion. With themes left open to interpretation, there are a lot of opportunities to have some fun with what they’ll wear. And at the 2022 Met Gala, many folks did just that. But as Vogue noted with the night's theme “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” the concept conjures the 19th century Gilded Age of America.

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