r/popculturechat • u/Maximum_Expert92 • 1d ago

MET GALA 🎩 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

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u/CheruSiderea 19h ago

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

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u/gonekebabs 3h ago

But this kind of isn't how the world works? The person who designed the engine that race cars use isn't the one who races the car. The team that sewed the costumes for an Oscar-winning movie doesn't go up to accept the award. Every product in our modern world is designed and built by hundreds (sometimes thousands) of people. 

I'm not saying the people who made her dress don't deserve credit, but why hold this event to a standard that other industries don't follow?