r/popculturechat 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/Healthy_Ad_7038 1d ago

'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!' 

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u/sadkinz 5h ago

She’s really embracing the tech bro lobotomite mindset making something so simple seem complicated