If there is any time to shop a sale, it’s when designer goods are being sold at half the price.  Many Memorial Day sales started yesterday, with up to 50% off original prices. From Dolce & Gabanna to Prada, the steep discounts are comparable to after-Christmas sales. Scroll through some of our favorites, including pieces we scored ourselves! SHOP CLOTHING BAGS SHOES JEWELRY + MORE …

The annual Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit, also known as the Met Gala, is New York’s biggest fashion event. Over 500 designers, actors and actresses, Hollywood elite, Wall Street bigwigs and Silicon Valley protégés attend the red carpet before the fundraiser. The museum’s fashion exhibition this year is entitled Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination. Anna Wintour, Vogue editor and artistic director of Condé Nast, …