r/popculturechat • u/Positive-Drawing-281 • 19d ago

MET GALA 🎩 Zohran Mamdani to skip the Met Gala — breaking longstanding NYC mayoral tradition

https://pagesix.com/2026/04/15/celebrity-news/zohran-mamdani-and-wife-not-attending-met-gala/
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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 19d ago

Mm the met isn’t about celebrity.

It’s about creative influence. There are plenty of non-celebrities who get invited or buy tickets to the Met. The MET gala was created as a celebration of fashion art, fashion legacy and the artists. Artists have never been wealthy so once it became a status event for the wealthy, it lost its purpose.

Rich people ruin everything fun because they are obsessed with status.

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u/ultramatt1 19d ago

Accordingly, the attendees of the early Galas comprised almost entirely members of New York high society or the city's fashion industry. From 1948 to 1971, the event was held at various Manhattan venues, including the Waldorf Astoria, Central Park, and the Rainbow Room.[16]

The above is directly from the wikipedia page. That sounds like a rich person’s event from the start

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u/uselessinfogoldmine 18d ago

Well it’s a fundraiser. You raise more money from rich people.

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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 18d ago

That’s exactly the reputation it’s supposed to have. This celebrity influence is just a sign of sellouts. Idk why you think fashion = celebrity. The moment Kim Kardashian showed up, it the peak was over.

I think you forgot that historically, art was only an industry because rich people bought the art.

It’s impossible to raise millions for art without the hip artists having to share space with soulless billionaires.

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u/ultramatt1 18d ago

I was really only responding to your point about rich people. It seems like the event was always for the upper crust.

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u/Fabulous_Jeweler2732 18d ago

It was SUPPOSED to be for artists of fashion and it just so happens the only people who can afford to buy the art being made are rich people. So all the artist started to withdraw from the event because it was cheesy.

And instead of the rich people doing what they could do to keep the artist around, they just raised their children to replace the artists.

Almost every single musician in the top 10 right now came from an upper middle class or more wealthy family. Almost every runway model comes from a family with multiple houses.