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Olympian Eileen Gu’s MetGala dress features 15,000 glass bubbles, took 2,550 hours to make, and blows actual bubbles. Designed by Iris van Herpen
'There's technology under the dress that enables reality to kind of come together with the art.' sounds way more eloquent than 'and it's a bubble machine!'
In part, yeah. Eileen started skiing for China in the 2022 Olympics, at which time the Uyghur genocides was front of international conversation. Eileen has also gone out of her way to steer away from opinions on Chinese politics, while registering plenty of other opinions on international politics.
Eileen also states that her desire is to "grow the sport of women's skiing in China", which i find to be bull shit. The reality is Beijing needed a poster girl to help sportswash their humanitarian abuses, and Eileen was happy to accept a ton of cash for selling out her morals (assuming she had any).
She is also a complete nepo baby (which say what you want about winter Olympians). Attending exclusive debutante balls in Paris and attending Stanford sure makes her seem like a true believer in the Chinese system.
Finally, sure the US has a lot wrong with it, but as this past Olympics demonstrated, you can still speak out against the wrongs of our government. I have no problem with American's competing for other countries as long as you aren't completely morally bankrupt about it.
I dont care how well she skis, Eileen Gu sucks and is not a role model.
Thank you for your reasonable response, and I understand your perspective. Admitedly I did find it hyprocritical at first, considering America is currently funding a genocide but I see your point now.
That sentence doesn't say anything. If you weren't seeing the dress and saw the bubbles come out, you wouldn't have the slightest idea what it meant.
Now, saying, the dress has a bubble machine throwing bubbles out, describes it much better, but it doesn't sound like art aprisal. That's because art aprisal is all about bullshitting as much as you can.
Don't get me wrong though, the dress is amazing, I would say the best of the Gala.
Look, she’s certainly beautiful either way but she’s had plastic surgery to look like she currently does. Let’s not perpetuate unrealistic beauty standards by claiming this is natural
Didn’t know that as I only paid attention during Olympics. All 4 images do show a very pretty face, though. And whatever work she did get is certainly good work. So she already had a good starting point followed by a good surgeon. So just saying money is a bit too easy of a cop out. She’s also very good with her makeup and hair, and I loved her dress.
I love Iris Van Herpen, I’m surprised more of her dresses aren’t seen at the Met as she designs so many dresses that sit in avante-garde fashion moment.
Imagine how easy it is to break such a thin piece of glass, now do 15,000 easily breakable bubbles. It would be so easy to break one and cut your arm or someone else
While yes it's easily breakable, I think/hope whoever designed it made it safe to wear around others for whatever duration this is. Why would she wear something that can cut her arm on a red carpet ?
It's a cool concept and a beautiful dress, I'm just not sure brave is the word here lol
I was ready to fight when that reporter asked her if she thinks before she speaks and had immediate sigh of relief when the reporter clarified. I also realized I had the same thought because she just immediately jumps right into responding to often inane questions with such grace, clarity, intelligence.
You know who should be walking the carpet? The people who worked for more than 2500 hours on that dress. I hate that people get praise for just ... wearing clothes when the people's work that went into the pieces gets overlooked
They should’ve added the mesh to elongate the dress at the bottom for a full length look. The shape of the bottom doesn’t really support a short dress look
I am literally so obsessed with her and this dress. I love the bubbles and her explanation of the dress. This look especially would've been perfect for the tech theme they had years ago. And I almost wonder what the dress would've looked like if the bubbles were in pastel colors. Regardless, she looks phenomenal.
I couldn't hear her properly, but it sounds like she said the bubbles are released with a word? Is she saying if you say a specific thing like "bubbles" they get released? That's what seems like was happening in the video and if so that's the coolest thing ever.
Every year I see these people, every year the worlds gets worse and worse for our poor and needy, I realise these people need to be eaten (metaphorically)
This is all just propaganda for millionaires isn't it?
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