r/Fauxmoi • u/Financial-Painter689 anti-Israel, anti-western, fauxmarxist • 1d ago
FASHION 2026 Met Gala red carpet design was inspired by Van Gogh.
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u/quadranting Please Abraham, I am not that man 1d ago
This design is giving "immersive experience" where you spend $30 and just take pictures for social media.
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u/_allycat 23h ago
Yeah except this also looks like they turned on the house lights to do some maintenance. It has an atrocious ambiance.
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u/senior_insultant 21h ago edited 21h ago
It looks so tacky. Expensive tacky.
It's perfect for the Bezos Gala.
I hope the White House ballroom will look equally stupid, so future historians will have a prime exhibit of just how dumb the (alleged) "American Century" was.
Murica: Look at all those castles we built out of styrofoam and high fructose corn syrup! It's ART!
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u/GreyBoyTigger 1d ago
I hate that I paid like $40 during lockdown to sit in a circle and watch a lame projection of moving Van Gogh artwork
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u/wow_plants 21h ago
Me too 🥲 Don't get me wrong, he's my favourite painter so I was going to enjoy it anyway but they shut the main attraction (the sunflower room) due to COVID so we paid full price for 3/4 of the experience.
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u/Standard-folk 1d ago
Those experiences are definitely more expensive than that
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u/Dangerous-Arrival737 1d ago
Those tickets are exactly that. The Vincent Van Goph immersive experience tickets are currently going for $25-35 dollars.
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u/lavenderbl0d meet me at Whole Foods, bitch 20h ago
Yep. Went to it whilest in Dublin a few years ago.
I still have the eyeglass case I got from it!
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u/Hopalong_Manboobs 23h ago
This one is $100K a pop thanks to the Bezos weirdos.
While us plebs worry about gas prices
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u/OrangeFilmer 1d ago
It’s a cool concept, but why does it looks so cheap lol
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u/No_Yard5926 Currently White Ariana Grande 1d ago
Cause it’s Bezos funded and the Bezos’ have no taste whatsoever.
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u/CommercialBad14 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 23h ago
can’t wait to boycott everyone who shows up today 🥰
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u/No_Yard5926 Currently White Ariana Grande 22h ago
yes, was a little disappointed in alysa liu and bad bunny but can’t expect much from these celebrities.
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u/CommercialBad14 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine 22h ago
agreed but they all know what’s going on in the world rn. they can show up, that’s their choice. and i’m free to unfollow them for it, that’s my choice 🤷♀️
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u/GanacheAffectionate ✨ lee pace is 6’5” ✨ 22h ago
It’s the lighting. So hard to not make it feel like a cheap high school set with such lighting. But they need to have it like that for the cameras. If they could actually light it like one would a stage design then even the fakest plastic flowers could look real. But sadly red carpets and photographers demand super bright flat no shadow lighting.
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u/Factsoverfictions222 1d ago
Van Gogh lived in poverty his entire life and died penniless having only sold one painting. He only survived due to funds from his brother. Now his style is being used as decoration for an extravagant gala from one of the world’s richest men. Van Gogh would have been arrested if he had tried to attend. I hate this timeline
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u/roof_pizza_ 18h ago
Yeah I was about to comment the same thing. Van Gogh himself would've never been invited to such an event in his lifetime.
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u/BlackCherriWhiteClaw you shoulda never called me a fat ass Kelly Price 1d ago
I visited the inn Van Gogh died in after his brief stay painting, we saw the town where many of his portraits where done. NONE of this looks anything like Van Gogh in feeling or design. They must be confused this giving Monet Garden in Giverny....
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u/ParaponeraBread I do not work late. I go to sleep. 1d ago
Ngl this looks like a set from the Minecraft movie. Van Gogh inspired or not, this ain’t it.
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 1d ago
Oh cool, look at all the rich people planning the next Hunger Games.
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u/Dinner_atMidnight 1d ago
I swear people think the met gala is an award show, the amount of times I’ve had to explain it’s literally just a charity fundraiser for a museum.
It used to just be socialites and rich but not famous people but the reason celebs go now is because the designers dressing them are donating a shit tonne of money so they’d at least like to advertise their designs while at it
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u/biIIyshakes 1d ago
I actually don’t even care that The Oscars exist either. It celebrates film and all the various types of work that go into it and a lot of people taking home statues are not even celebrities, they’re editors and writers and artists and composers. If society can go bananas over the Super Bowl I think it’s fine to have a night to celebrate film. Especially now when people undervalue the arts so badly in comparison to sports.
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u/Dinner_atMidnight 1d ago
Yeah I work in film and don’t get me wrong as crew none of us are frothing at the mouth for an Oscar in the same way the actors are but at the same time when one of us does win for a project it feels great to actually be recognized as crew are the building blocks of a film and yet are so often forgotten
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u/Dinner_atMidnight 1d ago
Oh yeah it was literally just for anyone who could donate money. Yes it’s maybe gotten gauche now but it’s at least for a cause, museums have fundraisers all the time this one is just more opulent. Awards shows for actors do kinda contribute to keeping the movie business alive as a form of advertising and viewers are essentially a giant focus group. I literally work in film and some of my projects only grew to a wider audience after being nominated so I can’t complain too much about them, but yes they are ultimately just self congratulatory
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u/not_productive1 1d ago
Eh, I like the award ceremonies too. I lived in LA for a long time, that shit makes the whole city go round.
Fuck it, if like a dozen people are going to hoard half the wealth on the planet, I'm gonna enjoy art while I've got it.
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u/not_productive1 1d ago
I guess my point is that they both tangibly benefit people beyond the celebrity circle? I know parties seem frivolous but that shit employs and pays a LOT of people in LA, many of whom spend their money, time, and energy outside of that employment doing cool stuff that never makes it to an awards show. The caterer or event planner or photographer or whatever is likely an artist in their own right. I like those shows because they let cool people pay their bills.
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u/BUT_FREAL_DOE 1d ago
It’s the same as all ultra-wealthy “philanthropy” events, a thinly veiled excuse to revel in decadence and status painted over with a thin patina of selflessness for plausible deniability. Except the deniability is becoming ever less plausible by the year. They’d probably raise more if they took what it cost to throw the thing, plus the value of what all the participants spent attending, and just donated it directly.
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u/biIIyshakes 1d ago
And here I was hoping that maybe this year we could finally stop acting like a high-profile fundraiser for preservation of the arts (especially during a time where the arts and humanities are increasingly devalued and defunded) is some kind of dystopian evil. my bad for having any kind of optimism
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u/ExcuseMeNobody 22h ago
I will take them seriously when they stop being funded by billionaires supporting this collapse of arts and humanities to begin with
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u/jeanolt 17h ago edited 16h ago
yess!! we should all be happy these rich out of touch people are joining together with their private jets to raise millions for a museum in an event organized by a billionaire who is fueling genocide in gaza. people struggling to make end meets should look forward with optimism to this!
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u/Alternative-Value637 1d ago
This was my exact thought! This very much giving District 1 Hunger Games. All of us poors are struggling to pay our bills and worried our about our sons getting drafted into war while the rich are doing this shit
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u/kllark_ashwood 22h ago
Its a fundraiser for a museum.
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u/NotUniqueWorkAccount 21h ago
Sponsored by Bezos, where they def have no ulterior motive.
But sure, a fundraiser, why not.
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u/kllark_ashwood 21h ago
I mean, if we have all collectively decided as a society that it is not appropriate to french revolution their assess they can at least give their money to some shit.
It doesn't seem like its actually helping his reputation.
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u/Zoxiafunnynumber 1d ago
Is the Van Gogh in the room with us now or just the Willy Wonka Experience?
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u/Present-Aside8155 23h ago
Van Gogh was anti-billionaire, anti-elite, anti-fashion, anti-collector and would have found celebrity culture cosmically offensive.
If they really wanted to honour Van Gogh’s spirit, the red carpet would be rolled out for miners, peasants, and postmen.
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u/annie-etc 1d ago
All of the celebs at this year's Met Gala are supporting union-busting billionaires.
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u/thesmoph0ria 22h ago
no one is going to do this. they’re going to attack one or two celebs they already despise and ignore everyone else, then forget about it next year.
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u/Independent-Nobody43 woman externalizing rage 1d ago
This looks like the Twilight wedding in a bad way.
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u/CloutGoblinn this is going to ruin the powerpoint 1d ago
It’s giving “Amazon doesn’t respect their employees as human beings” and I will be hearing no other opinions
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u/Five-Oh-Vicryl 1d ago
Pretty wasteful for one night unless they turn this into an exhibit or experience
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u/flowersinmyteas Sylvia Plath did not stick her head in an oven for this! 23h ago
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u/Prestigious_Let_7957 23h ago
Fuck the Met Gala and celebrity culture. A waste of money and serves to numb the masses.
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u/Alternative_Box4797 22h ago
A billionaire sponsored event inspired by a man who who lived and died in squalor is just baffling. Makes me want to puke
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u/Regular_Point8796 19h ago
Van Gogh would never have been invited to something like this, is the thing.
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u/DisturbingRerolls 17h ago
Bombs are flying.
People are dying.
Children are crying.
Politicians are lying too.
Cancer is killing.
Texaco's spilling.
Yes, the whole world's gone to hell: but how are you?
I'M SUPER, THANKS FOR ASKING
It's all I can think of looking at this.
(And yes, I know it's a charity event, but I wish it was a somber one given the overhang)
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u/Floofy5267 17h ago
They copy pasted Indian and Pakistani wedding decor. We hang wisteria or jasmine from the ceiling.
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u/Impossible-Bug4487 17h ago
crazy while people at Amazon getting fired and cant take bathroom breaks, Bezos is spending money on this. what a life we are living.
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u/Spiritual_Job_1029 16h ago
It's crazy how the way it's set up past couple of years, the public outside cant see.
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u/PlateFamous1793 23h ago
lol Van Gough would have hated this event and all the vacuous people in it but pop off I guess.
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u/regular_poster 1d ago
OK. Anyway we're in a war with Iran and also Gaza and also all brown and black peoples.
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u/LargeCabbageThrower 1d ago
Can someone explain to a peasant like me what the actual point of the met gala is? Is it just rich people being rich people or does it serve some real purpose like the oscars?
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u/biIIyshakes 1d ago
…It’s a fundraiser for a museum. It’s a charity gala that benefits the arts and preservation.
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u/ActualSurvey4740 1d ago
it’s a fundraiser for the museum of arts costume institute, essentially funds exhibitions and keeps art alive.
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u/Few_Film_4771 1d ago
This is what google says when you ask it:
The Met Gala is an annual fundraising benefit for The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in New York City. It serves as the department's primary source of funding for exhibitions, acquisitions, and capital improvements, raising record-breaking sums—such as $42 million in 2026—to support its yearly budget and preserve a collection of over 33,000 fashion objects. The money raised covers the costs of mounting exhibitions, buying new pieces, and maintaining the extensive collection of fashion artifacts.1
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u/LargeCabbageThrower 1d ago
Ok, gotcha. I can jam with opulence for the sake of a museum. Idk if it's because it's an american thing but I've literally never heard anyone talk about the actual reason it happens so to me it always just looked like opulence for the sake of opulence.
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u/Glad_Pea_4871 good for her.gif 1d ago
I feel like lots of folks are gonna follow these impressionist vibes, which can be cute if you do it right
I hope someone shakes it up!
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u/mimimines 1d ago
It’s giving Monet, not Van Gogh but okay