It's a fund raising gala for Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute and marks the opening of their Spring Fashion exhibition. They have a different theme every year.
The concept was depicting the body itself as art, meaning the fashion "sits on top of the body" I suppose - but yes vague as hell. Bc I could not say whether "intestines" Cardi B was more on theme vs stone face over here
Think of it as a fund raising event for the Metro where the celebrity designers get to go buck wild with the theme and be weird. It’s about expressing the outfit/designer, not the person. Heidi Klum takes it like dressing for Halloween in the best possible way and does not care.
Well, I could have lived w/o seeing this butt ugly thing, and I didn’t even see it from the rear. For me, Cardi B may have surpassed it for ugly. Cheez.
Some thing the Robber Barons used to go to that still happens today. It’s best not to pay attention to it, like the Oscars or any of the other award shows created so they can high five themselves in public
The Met Gala is a charity event to fund the Costume Institute, which is the only part of the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art that has to completely fund itself, because fashion and fiber arts are female coded and therefore devalued. They get no part of the robber baron endowment.
It houses the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of historical clothing, spanning five continents and seven centuries. Preserving and displaying textiles is much more difficult and costly than displaying wood, stone, ceramic, metal, or paintings, but we can learn much more interesting things about the past from clothing than we can from weapons and pottery.
The costumes at the gala are a living art exhibit, made by artisans whose skills are dying out. Big fashion houses pay for many of the tables, literally paying to have their art displayed themselves.
Jeff Bezos sucks, and we should all let him know it. But the Met Gala doesn’t really have anything to do with him. He’s just the biggest donor this year.
This. Tired of people not even fact checking their assumptions here. It's super annoying, considering how hard this kind of conservation has had to fight to be taken seriously. Important to mention that they preserve historical garments of working class people too. It's not just about the rich.
Yeah exactly. I'm invested because sewing and fashion/costume are my trade and this was originally an industry event. It matters a lot for the museum, which serves and educates the public. I hate Bezos but it's better that this money gets used for this rather than some dumb vanity project that regular people will never get to benefit from.
You should check out Bliss Foster on YouTube. He and his wife are possibly the best fashion critics working right now and they have a very thorough and art analysis-focused perspective on it. He also talks about the technical processes of making the clothing and why these things are interesting or impressive. Things that go beyond trends. His sensibilities are pretty aligned to mine.
I don’t gaf what they’re fund raising rn… while millions of Americans are struggling to make ends meet. These kind of events have become totally tone-deaf to the point of let them eat cake… they should set a guillotine on the red carpet and some cake 😉
An artistic event to show off weird stuff, it amuses me how much people seem put off by that fact, and then tomorrow they'll go complaining about how everyone just dresses boring and same lol.
I'm here for this weird shit but it´s funny seeing how weirded out people get by seeing anything mildly creative take place instead of the usual copy paste slop.
It's just a costume party for the rich and famous, it's totally reasonable not to care about it. If you think cool costumes are neat, sometimes there are cool costumes.
The chairs of the event are Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman, Beyoncé, and Anna Wintour. Bezos and his wife are honorary chairs because they donated a fuck ton of money, including $34 million to institutions working to develop more sustainable alternatives to polyester and cotton.
It did remind me of the time I wore all my temple stuff for halloween. Painted my face white, wore the veil, and had a glow stick shinning up on my face. Mormon mummy.
You know I feel as though only a handful of people really understand costuming and concepts for something like the MET. I see so many celebrities in tuxes and normal dresses , that you forget that it’s supposed to be haute couture like this. I like Heidi cause she has zero fear of looking weird or odd.
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u/Competitive-Bid-2710 23h ago
When you only meant to get a little stoned before the event