THE MET GALA
Hello,
So I want to talk to you about the Met Gala but I don’t want to talk to you ~about the Met Gala.~
I’m sorry, but I hate the Met Gala.
By now you know I am brimming with opinions and I spew them at you from every angle. Today I am going to try with every fiber of my being to not do that and instead to just TALK about the event and what it is and what happened and share a bunch of links with you. And then I’ll go talk to my therapist about capitalism, and wealth disparity, and racism and fat phobia in the fashion industry, and politicians parading as celebrities, and celebrity worship, and she’ll probably tell me to get offline and I will tell her, “ma’am, it is my JOB to be very ONLINE.”
(Do you guys read these with the fast-talking, hurried pace in which I write them? Answer Y or N. Just curious. Personal research project.)
Alright, here we go:
what is the Met Gala:
A place for celebrities to charade their good standing with fashion houses and to be seen and therefore accepted as a valued entity in our society. Oh wait, sorry, right, that’s for my therapist.
AOC and her "Tax The Rich" dress
Kim and her shadow dress that turned into a meme
Selena Gomez fans heckling Hayley Bieber and her husband
First began in 1948 and it is the more commonly heard name for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala. The Met has a costume department and it is the only department that has to fund itself; therefore, it throws a big-ass party and each year there’s a theme and tickets are thousands of dollars. Unless you are a celebrity and you are invited by a fashion house or designer who pays for your ticket at their table. The event has close ties to the fashion industry as most Vogue editors-in-chief aka Diana Vreeland and Anna Wintour have acted as consultants to the costume institute for quite some time. Anna Wintour literally dictates who comes to the event, who they bring, and what they wear. What power. Oh and every year there is a theme - this year it was “America.” Riveting.
who cares?
so many people care.
Mostly internet trolls that have something to say about literally everyone in attendance regardless of whether their most stylish outfit was a burlap sack they cut 3 holes into. The amount of conversation and rhetoric that came out of this event was preposterous if you ask me. It’s a CHARITY event for a MUSEUM! It is a lovely, gorgeous, and arguably fantastic way to make money for an institution but I think we’re forgetting the damage the fashion industry does to our planet and our mental health on a regular basis. But again, I digress.
what happened?
Pete Davidson looking like a nun
A$AP Rocky and Rihanna (who in my book can do no wrong) wearing... giant comforters
Kim Petras wore a horse?
this tweet from Lil Nas X is simply a lol
Kim also had a FULL FACE of makeup under that mask
Frank Ocean and the green animatronic baby
and everything else…
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The power of TikTok
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Nicki Minaj tweeted
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Record-high numbers while alcohol use continues to decline
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Comedian Norm Macdonald
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Disney and AirBNB have teamed up
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The Gabby Petito case
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Saweetie was memed
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Megan Fox may or may not have gone off-script
ALSO at the VMAs Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly performed together and Kourtney and Megan Fox introduced them and it was VERY CLEAR that Megan Fox may or may not have gone off-script. Watch Kourtney’s face at the end.
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“The Activist” is experiencing backlash
“The Activist” is experiencing backlash because it’s the most absurd idea in history to participate in activism as a competition??
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Lil Nas X’s album came out
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I love how the NYT reports on this TikTok trend as a "latest craze"
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There was a much anticipated PlayStation showcase on September 9
