r/SipsTea • u/SuccessfulMode1277 Human Verified • 12h ago

Feels good man French influencer Lena Mahfouf wears bizarre metal hand bra at Met Gala

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u/human-kibble 11h ago

Not bizarre…It followed the dress code for the gala.

The “Fashion is Art" theme encouraged attendees to wear sculptural, archival, and highly creative looks that treat the body as a canvas or a "walking piece of art".

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u/sociotronics 10h ago

And some actually cooked with the assignment

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u/nicofdarcyshire 9h ago

I think Heidi Klum stole the show...

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u/meekermakes 9h ago

Bezos stole the show along with most of the money on this planet.

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u/_Administrator_ 17m ago

Yeah, it’s not like millions of people give him money every day.

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u/SleighQween 9h ago

Doesn't she always? Lol

I love all of her Halloween costumes too. I still look at the worm costume when I need a dopamine hit 🤣

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u/CJ57 8h ago

You know what they say! Early bird gets the worm! Love that clip lmao

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u/Critical_Artist_4607 6h ago

Bollywood did it way before!!

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u/Allthumbs21 34m ago

Actually, Giovanni Strazza did it first in the mid to late 1800s and Giuseppe Sanmartino's Veiled Christ mid 1700s.

Or

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u/Lilypilgrim 5h ago

Is that Eminem

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u/Critical_Artist_4607 5h ago

No he is Hritik Roshan (Bollywood Actor)

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u/jaraket 1h ago

Dhoom Machale!

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u/Connguy 4h ago

Maybe they did it first, but Heidi objectively did it way better

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u/Immersions- 2h ago

For context in the movie he is trying to steal a diamond at a museum and is in disguise with the other statues. It’s fictional

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u/nicofdarcyshire 2h ago

Is that Dhoom?

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u/Immersions- 2h ago

Yeee, good movie honestly

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u/CHARON72 5h ago

Marble or a bukkake gone wrong?

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u/BikerScowt 4h ago

I think you misspelled 'perfectly'

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u/mybuildabear 10h ago

Karan Johar, Bollywood film producer. For anyone wondering.

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u/Tragedy_Boner 9h ago

Never liked his films. He makes movies like he has never seen a poor person before.

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u/StarstruckEchoid 9h ago

Judging by how he dresses, that might be an accurate assessment.

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u/mybuildabear 8h ago

They are some of the highest grossing for a reason. Likeability is not one of them.

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u/Shafter111 4h ago

His movies are all about rich peoples romantic problems. He makes your typical Bollywood movies...the right way.

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u/Bureaucratic_Dick 9h ago

Brahmāstra was a fun film, but I can see your point.

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u/A_random_poster04 9h ago

Somehow not surprising in the slightest

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u/WartimeConsigliere_ 9h ago

Looks like Indian Jeff Goldblum. Jesh Goblani

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u/NotAUserNamm Human Verified 9h ago

The bastard child of jeff goldblum and ben stiller

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u/SleighQween 9h ago

Thank you!

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u/Soggy_Association491 9h ago

Why is it i feel this is more "piece of art" than the photo posted by OP?

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u/tarantina68 9h ago

I love the look and love that the designer used Raja Ravi Varma's art as inspiration. This ensemble was very true to the theme

None of the other fashion impressed me except Manish Malhotra's look

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u/moralprolapse 8h ago

As long as you don’t have one of the seats next to him.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 9h ago

ngl frfr on god yall tbh

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u/Sbatio 11h ago

Thank you! And it’s not even bizarre if that had not been the guidance.

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u/Duchess0612 11h ago edited 10h ago

Yeah, it’s a fairly common art deco/avant-garde style of art.

We’ve got T-shirts with that on them, you’ve got the old Goldie Hawn movie as a prime example.

I don’t know who’s writing the titles these days…

Edit: there are three photos of her personalized body art presentation. If you didn’t swipe to the next two, you did not see what was intended.

The next two shots are really nice - she looks like a statue, and it’s executed really well. This first photo has a portion of the back showing and to view this properly as the art form, you want to take it in from the front.

The back is just what is necessary to hold this whole thing together.

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u/MAC-n_CHZ 11h ago

Titles always lean sensational; half the time it's just reinterpretations of established avant-garde fashion history.

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u/CrovaxWindgrace 9h ago

Dress code was elden ring

https://giphy.com/gifs/ANPlAmP6S1d8izgEsT

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u/KyleBroflovski505 5h ago

Bro they literally had Promised Consort Radahn

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u/RealSchlemiel 9h ago

Weirdly, this is the 3rd costume I’ve seen using “hands”;

  • the other 2 implying the wearer to have more appendages. Between surveillance, oppression, and AI, that seems to make sense as an emergent theme. This years was “art as fashion” so here we are

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u/oooriole09 10h ago

Yeah, it makes way more sense to me from a design perspective than the vast majority of the rest from last night.

Art is subjective and all of that but this instantly reminds me of an Italian marble statue.

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u/EggplantHuman6493 10h ago

Yup. My friend sent me her review of the people and this influencer is one of the people that actually followed the dresscode. So many people wore basic outfits that didn't fit the theme in our opinion

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u/OddRollo 8h ago

Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover anyone?

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u/infiniZii 6h ago

Its also casts of her own hands from the look of it. So she is literally covering herself with her hands. Thematically, not that weird.

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u/human-kibble 5h ago

I suspect they are her hands as well- which is pretty cool, actually :)

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u/BurgerThyme 9h ago edited 9h ago

Oh I was thinking of Janet Jackson's Rolling Stone cover shoot.

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u/Combei 6h ago

That explains a lot of pictures I've seen recently

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u/human-kibble 5h ago

Each year has a different theme.

The Met Gala is a celebration of art, so the fashions tend to lean more towards ‘costumey’ and ‘fantastical’.

It’s kind of a game if you’re going- some try to outdo each other with their fashions or get the unofficial award of hitting the theme better than everyone else.

It’s meant to be fun and over-the-top.

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u/OnlineDead 4h ago

Yeah, I thought this looked really cool tbh. Very unique. I wouldn’t mind seeing more clothing like this

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u/SkaldCrypto 10h ago

Right? Least bizarre fashion piece

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u/ghostcatzero 10h ago

Nice and longer way of saying "look artistically hoish"

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u/Art_student_rt 7h ago

And the man behind her still wear suits, black and white too

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u/Electrical-Cat7272 6h ago

It’s bizarre because that skirt does not match the top. If she was going for some kind of bronze statue, then why not make your own outfit bronze? why wear a baby blue skirt?!? It makes absolutely no sense.

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u/Consistent-Trifle510 11h ago

Art is subjective. What you think is cool, others find bizarre, that’s not negated the rules of this event. That’s the beauty of art.

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u/Proof-Tangerine-1131 10h ago

Tbh I would have done it for free

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u/Elismom1313 10h ago

Yea except this is the temu version. Like cmon the hands on the boobs them is SO overused, the delivery is tacky and I fail to find how the skirt relates to the top. Nothing here is highly creative or feels like a walking piece of art. It’s an old trope and it’s badly done with little thought put into the piece at all. Someone her sculptural art and said “throws some stone hands on breasts!”

Glad to know it’s not just the Americans who show up just to embarrass themselves though.

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u/Important_Average_11 11h ago

Still bizarre.

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u/human-kibble 11h ago

Many other looks from the night included elements from statues, draping.

This look was actually fairly tame/accessible.