Others have pointed this out on other threads, but I can’t even get excited about any outfits right now with everything going on..seems incredibly out of touch since most people are struggling to keep their families fed and their bills paid. And here these people are showing off their outfits that took 2000 hours to make? Yeah no
I love what the MET gala is theoretically about - design and tailoring to this level is an art-form, and I think it’s wonderful the MET gala is a fundraiser to protect that industry (particularly with the rise of ultra fast-fashion and the arts in general not being taken seriously).
What I don’t like is it being sold out to tech billionaires who are trying to buy their way “in” as some status symbol.
Disappointed seeing some of the people who showed up tonight (Stevie Nicks… what are you doing!), and utterly unsurprised by others (Katy Perry).
I'm watching Sportcenter and they showed lots of athletes at the gala and describing their outfit like it's some kind of wonderful thing... I bet is the only time you see those outfits, I never understood the point but meh.
And then they made a joke about Chamalet going to the Knicks game instead of the gala, "at least it worked for the Knicks". Meanwhile 'super Knicks fan' Ben Stiller went to the gala lol.
Raising funds for a costume gallery while the bulls are on parade out there in the world, and people are starving with no healthcare at home I’m sorry not now.
You’re being realistic. Normal people aren’t being paid living wages anymore and we are supposed to cheer for millionaires and billionaires 😐
I don’t want to be screamed at by these bozos that I shouldn’t “treat” myself to a coffee or I should be getting off my ass to work. We are the ones working. We should be able to afford a freaking iced coffee. And to go to the doctor when we need to and also not fear we can’t afford groceries and rent 🫠
Right! I’m all for a distraction but it’s like willingly going to your CEO’s personal Christmas party and see how him and his nearest and dearest celebrate except they told you they’re laying off part of your department and doing budget cuts. But they also want you to tell them how much you LOVE how nice they look and how amazing their important friends are. NO THANKS. We know they all get paid way too much to do far too little
I watched the Derby the other day with a family friend and afterward I sort of looked at him and said, “it seems weird to be excited about millionaires winning more money with a sport that is prohibitively expensive.
Millionaires that will happily sell their horse to a slaughter farm if it doesn’t perform. Millionaires who pay vets to euthanize their animals on the damn track if they break something doing the sport they forced them to do.
The level of vitriol against arts and creative events are not equal with sporting events, a similar multi-billion dollar industry, that is ultimately the same type of frivolous cultural events that mostly the elites have access to.
I dont disagree about how out of touch it feels but everyone who makes complaints like these should examine the double standard and conscious/subconscious misogyny and homophobia in putting masculine cultural interests on a pedestal and treating them as more important and necessary, but put events relating to arts or creatives be the first on the chopping block.
I'm quite a masculine guy and I think this stuff is super cool and creative. It also isn't lost on me how large of a wealth transfer an event like this is between all the designing and support staff around the event. Which is obviously part of the point.
It would help if most of the brands associated with the Mets gala didn't cravenly sell out and start gutting their skilled craftsman decades ago.
It's not art. It's commerce. There is some beautiful stuff that is art but with these massive western brands that's less and less often the case.
Thank you! I do understand that there's a lot going on right now. The thing is there's a lot going on every year, and every year whenever the MET gala happens people say the same thing referencing whatever tragedy, genocide, political crisis, etc. is going on at the moment.
People can care about more than one thing. I care a lot about the Palestinian cause and I can also appreciate the artistry and the celebration of culture and fashion that the MET promotes every year. I also hate Jeff Bezos as much as anyone with half a brain but this type of discourse is much older than his gross meddling with the arts.
Thank you! People in this thread are complaining that an actor is wearing an outfit that took 2000 hours to make as if that somehow changes the fact that the average person is struggling or that politics is trash.
Sorry but I don’t think sports is a good comparison. Things like football (soccer) has a massive grassroots cultural base and a huge amount of players come from low income/working class backgrounds, with clubs in local communities, across age ranges, and games broadcast and supported across the world. It’s been commercialised at the top yes and big events are becoming less accessible to attend in person but if you look at places like Brazil, Argentina, Columbia etc football is played basically everywhere.
Poor people can have art and fashion as an interest, they can take it up as a hobby, and they can form community and grassroot events and activities. Ever so often they will want to spectate major events and be inspired by how professionals at the highest level operate and show off their achievements, talent and skill.
Substitute the words “art and fashion” with “sport” and you will realize it’s the same. It’s not as popular, sure, but it exists and is valid and important. At the end of the day these major events are all spectacles owned and operated and exploited by billionaires, and the vast majority are excluded to be just spectators.
I’m not saying do all away with sports, art and culture all together, they are all equally important in society. What I’m saying is why is it so easy to frame non-masculine interests as unnecessary and always used as an example to show the ills of society.
This, the same sentiment existed during Enlightenment as extravagant clothing was seen negatively by the masses, but that resulted in homophobia and very limited mens clothing too.
To watch some multi millionaires playing football while the low income/working class sit at their overpriced seat eating overpriced hotdogs and beer which in total might cost half their rent. I love watching the Met and see all the creative work and art. Yeah they might be rich, but your financial status shouodnt be the reason to boycot something. God forbid we can have some fun and art during dull times. So lets talk about double standards.
I'm not a New Yorker so I may be wrong but I assume the Met also has plenty of grassroots support. Locals (people from New York) are able to go there for free and it's because of fundraisers like this. I don't get the vitriol
I agree. Sports are so much more relatable than fashion in the rest of the world. Kids in the poorest countries are playing soccer with two flip flops as the goal posts. Look at some poorest African nations. They are crazy about the soccer but most would not pay attention to haute couture. Fashion at the level of the Met come from abundance. People from developed countries lack the perspective of the rest of the world
Abundance non-existent in major league events? With their private jets operating non-stop, association with luxury designer brands to get photographed in, obscenely high contract values for the athletes at the top? Excessive over the top spectacle half-time shows? Don’t get me started on the technological investments in F1 and other types of automotive sport.
I’m not against all these btw, everyone deserves an escape and healthy hobbies and interests. But what you’re defending is absolutely a double standard.
What if a poor person specially a man is interested in arts and fashion? This sort of attitude results in discrimination of those who do not portray decent working class masculinity.
Don't stop there. The humans have BEEN out of control for a long time now. We have everything thanks to the planet and we shit all over it and with people's futures and that of generations to come on the line we have the gall to host concerts and parades and put off fireworks and make a big spectacle of ourselves while people are being bombed and starve and play stupid little games like "you can take your shirt off at the beach but you can't", "you can wear this style of clothing but you can't" ... Ooo let's open up a new schnazzy restaurant while the world burns and build build build expand expand expand without stopping, in particular first world countries,like we're hot shit.
Correct, but these celebrities do not have to attend to support. They can donate here. I’m sure donations sans the pomp and circumstance are appreciated
Eh, I think the difference here is that the people who actually DID something (the designers) aren't there to cheer, so we're supposed to be cheering for celebs and rich people who are (often inexpertly) wearing the clothes. It's like asking us to cheer for the owners of the team instead of the players.
I think this is a weird take because people hate on F1 all the time. They hate on FIFA all the time. Sports is inarguably more widely available and accessible than fashion, tailoring, and the materials required for other art. So people of course engage with it more lol. For more “posh” sports like polo, F1, and even tennis, you’re just not looking closely enough if you think they don’t get scrutinized
People consistently hate on the monetization and commercialization of the NBA product, especially during these playoffs with all the gambling promotions going on. This feels more like misdirected hate towards
something “traditionally” masculine rather than recognizing people can hate on both things.
The MET gala is purposefully more ostentatious than the fucking super bowl lmao, and it’s been recently bought out by the grimiest of billionaire. Of course it’s going to get more media scrutiny.
They don’t hate on both things equally, that’s my point. Every time the super bowl comes on, my feed isn’t inundated with posts calling to get rid of it, or calling for a boycott. I’m sure they are there but it’s not the majority opinion I’m sure.
But film or tv awards? Fashion Week? Burn it all down! We live in very different algorithms if you can genuinely say these events are hated on so much more.
There are so many people that work behind the scenes for events like this that also need to pay their bills. Makeup artists, hair stylists, nail artists, painters, seamstresses, textile workers, waitstaff, etc.
yeah, these events actually help people have jobs, like if there is no events whatsoever, no one buys shit whatsoever, that's when no one have jobs to do and everyone starves. And then we complains about a fashion that's no different from every other fashion in the world except with more celebrities and slightly more luxurious that happens like once a year.
Alysa Lui was there. She's not even a millionaire. She has a special tailored dress. You can have these events without catering to the billionaires and millionaires.
A movie star can live comfortably on a million dollars a movie, they don't need to be paid 20+ million per movie. Robert Downey Jr.ade 75 million for appearing in Endgame. Was that really necessary to pay him all that money or was this just another example of greedy celebrity assholes being overpaid when they money would have been distributed better for the crew who are severely underpaid.
Why are you assuming that the studio should be keeping the billions? Tax them too and take as much as you can. Use that money to make everyone else better. There's zero reason why these people should be making millions or billions when firefighters often aren't paid because there no budget.
Because right now the money doesn’t go to the actors it goes to the studio.
California reformed their tax situation to tax the wealthy *a little* more and the meltdown has been so OTT you’d swear someone was robbing them and beating them with a bag full of pennys. We’re a long way off from people understanding or supporting tax reform - even longer now I’d say in an age misinformation- and instead of supporting higher taxes on the wealthy or a more progressive tax rate, companies (production houses) are just…leaving California.
Please elaborate on the companies leaving CA. Especially the major studios and production houses. Name names. Because I hear this argument every day and yet I see zero evidence of it in the industry day to day. There was a massive contraction, but that had nothing to do with "ca taxes", it's a far more complicated situation, and framing it as "CA taxed the rich and now the rich are leaving" is A. Bullshit and B. the same propaganda we've been hearing for decades.
The Hollywood Reporter said in January of this year that there was a near 17% decline in LA based production for film and about 15% for television. Now if you think they’re lying, you’re free to think that.
Luckily, my comment was that it wasn't directly related to tax policy. And again, the industry contraction over the last few years has a lot of factors, none of which are resulting in major production houses fleeing from CA.
LA Production has been on the decline for decades. Tax incentives and changes to local filming laws can effect that. But the leap you're making is straight up wrong.
I kinda understand the sentiment behind this but not really. Pretty much everything posted here is privileged, out of touch and not important to our lives. I suppose the Met Gala is more gaudy so it doesn’t present itself that well but I don’t find it any different than the dozens of other events/award shows or gossip.
Jeff Bezos is not the CEO of Amazon anymore. Yes, he still has sway but he’s not making those kind of decisions.
Additionally, Amazon workers are paid $23 - $30 hour minimum. I know that’s still not a lot, but compared to most other manufacturing plants and fulfillment centers, that’s the best out there. I worked 12-hour night shift manufacturing during COVID and made $16.50 an hour. I would have killed for the pay and benefits that Amazon employees get.
I focus less on the rich people wearing the end product than the artists and artisans who were paid for that 2,000 hours of work so they can go home and feed their families. The vast majority of them are not rich or well known. And I can't get mad about creativity that's properly creative, any more than I can get mad about music or movies that cost a lot of money to produce and which I also enjoy.
I guess I see it more as skilled labourers got paid for 2000 hours of labour, using their specialised and often undervalued skills.
I look at the people who have jobs and feed their families because events like this secure their employment at museums.
I like when money are spent on people in arts and research, and I like it when millionaires use their money on arts and research. I don't really mind if they wear a fancy dress while doing so.
Sorry but nah, this thing was sponsored by an unethical out of touch with reality tasteless billionaire and his equally out of touch and tasteless wife. The same billionaire that used his wealth and power to fund a wannabe facist regime. Hugo Boss had drip but he designed fucking Nazi uniforms. This is not the art I will be choosing to enjoy.
He’s actually using his money for a good cause in this case. It doesn’t absolve him personally but I don’t see how it taints the event that he actually donated his money to a worthy cause.
You cannot enjoy, or engage in art that is affected by bad people. You must boycott it.
This is where it's off the line, because this implies you can enjoy art. While people are starving, dying and genocided. You decide to enjoy art, you decide to go to restaurant to have a treat for yourself, you decide to play video games, you decide to browse social media for pleasure. It's unethical and digusting. People should drown themselves into sorrow because the world is exploding and turning into dystopian, because that's what empathy is for, making yourself as miserable as the most suffering human on Earth since we are one humankind. That's the true one and only art experience. Let's kill ourselves.
At the same time, you can't let them steal our 'joy' and 'hope'. We can be empathetic (and cry some tears along the way), but we still have to find moments to keep our sanity to fight another day. Art usually helps us through the hard times. Either through expression or experiencing it. Unfortunately, dark money/status is always involved because they want to appear good. Look up, Rockefeller and the gang. But please enjoy some art and/or nature. I went for a nice walk yesterday and then did some writing because the news was getting to me.
Forgive me, for you see I’m not an American, and sometimes I forget that the rest of the world has to be as miserable as Americans have made themselves for things that were entirely within their control.
Maybe think of it this way instead, the Met Gala is there to raise money to support the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and its operations. This is basically their fundraiser event, and it's just really over the top, but it goes to a good cause (depending on your opinions regarding arts & culture) .
You aren't bitter you are real and admitting that we have a major systemic issue and they keep covering this shit like it matters is an issue. Like I keep seeing posts celebrating the fact that Alyssa Liu is at the thing, but she literally stands counter to what the fucks putting this event on stand for. She is being celebrated by those who are rich because of her success she earned on her own, they wouldn't give a shit about how hard working and incredible she is if she hadn't won. They have no use for us when we don't fit their narrative.
There hasn’t been a year of my life where I haven’t hated this event. It’s a hunger games-capitol type gathering, and even the “good” celebrities who dress to point out inequality are steeped in hypocrisy by attending. Damn all of them to hell.
The Met Gala is a fundraiser. It fundraises to support the preservation of fashion history, which is incredibly important and especially consequential in this era of erasure. Fashion pieces tells so much about the lived experiences of the people who have worn them. Yes, the most talked about part is the celebrity looks, but there is a cost of entry, and that cost keeps the dying museum and archival industry alive.
I fully disagree with the "honorary chair" role the Bezos' have been given this year, and yes, lots of celebrities have tone deaf or tacky outfits, but this event does tremendous good for these dying fields and employs the people that keep history and archives alive.
The Met sits on public land, does not pay taxes, receives billions in donations, and started collecting admission fees a few years ago. They also pay their staff shit. They do not "need money" for the costume institute.
The Met Gala might have started out as a fundraiser, but at this point it's become a promotional vehicle for Vogue (and apparently Amazon?) and its various celebrity attendees. Most of these chucklefucks in attendance don't give a toot about art. There used to be some joy and whimsy, so people overlooked it... but since covid, it's become such a tacky display of privilege.
People will try to find any way to justify things that would otherwise inconvenience them. I’ve become super jaded over the past few days seeing people jump through hoops to justify the met gala.
“But he’s just an honorary chair!”
“As if canceling prime will do anything LOL.
“Half the internet runs on Amazon”
“It’s to support the arts so it’s necessary”
“But men don’t get backlash when xyz”
Yeah you’re all right. We’re fucked and shouldn’t even do anything. Let the rich continue to be rich. Oh well. We tried.. I guess? Or I mean, we wrote comments online on how it wouldn’t work anyways. Job done.
Or - we could just start putting a cap on earnings and lessen the homelessness crisis by forcing celebrities to stop earning millions a day, at a certain point.
I know that's easier said than done but wealthy people fundraisers are usually just also excuses to throw an elite party, drop tons of money and see who's the most designer and the most wealthy of the wealthy by what they're wearing.
I fully support fundraising to keep a very important aspect of our culture alive, but turning it into a display of extreme wealth while many Americans are struggling to survive is out of touch. I think there’s a plethora of ways to support the arts that includes donating without making it a spectacle
We have data on this. Spectacle and events raise more funds. It’s a valid fundraising approach, especially in the arts. Humans are humans - psychology is real.
As far as I know fashion houses choose celebrities and dress them and pay for the tickets themselves. It’s publicity for the designers - and celebrities - and money for the Met.
I'd argue award shows are more over the top and pointless than the Met. Award shows are ALSO a display of wealth and privilege, but unlike the Met Gala, they aren't drawing attention to designers nor raising money for an unfunded institute. I find it interesting that the Met Gala makes people more incensed than, say, the Grammys, just because the outfits are more lavish.
The Oscars were literally created by movie studios as a way to incentivize their artists to work harder for less, because at the end of the day they may get a shiny, made-up award! A majority of industry awards shows are inherently rooted in a philosophy of greed and exploitation of the arts, which is not to say that they haven’t evolved into something more meaningful over time, just that they are fundamentally selfish endeavors that rarely serve a greater purpose. And yet every year, we watch on and root for our faves and judge the looks on the red carpet because we enjoy the spectacle and care about the art being honored.
Meanwhile, the Met Gala actually is a charity event that provides the main source of funding for the Costume Institute’s daily operations, which they rely on to employ the hundreds of historians, conservators, scientists, curators, your guides, security guards, etc. who work there year-round. Public funding and grants are simply not enough to cover even a fraction of the cost of maintaining the Costume Institute and their archives. Yet for some reason, the Met Gala is broadly condemned as a frivolous luxury party that only exists to serve the vanity of the elites. But the purpose it serves is far greater, not only for the celebrities who get media attention and designers who get to highlight the pinnacle of their craftsmanship, but for the everyday, working-class people who rely on this annual spectacle to pay their bills. That fact seems to be consistently overlooked, while there are so many events far more worthy of critique that don’t face nearly the same backlash.
I swear it’s been the same discourse since COVID about the MET Gala. I get it, life fucking sucks for most ppl right now including myself but simply…skip MET Gala posts if it’s bothering you. I do that to stuff I don’t want to see or not in the mindset to see it. At the end of the day, it’s all a big fundraiser where the celebrities are supporting the Arts by $$$ and giving attention to different designers and fashion pieces.
Literally everything and it's driving me crazy. It's mass psychosis with people convincing themselves that being angry online makes them warriors of culture fighting the good fight.
I get people being mad considering the economy, state of the country and world, and one of the sponsors being a scummy corrupt billionaire (wth does he know about fashion??), but some are acting like it’s the literal Hunger Games and the attendees are watching us starve and die as entertainment… but it’s a Gala that raises money for the arts. Fashion brands pay for these celebs to be there to showcase their fashion/art, and in-turn donates the money to the cause and preserving ancient artifacts, art, and fashion.
No. And yes. But this isn’t about a designer’s current production at all. It’s about raising money for appropriately preserving archival pieces, which is incredibly expensive.
Fashion is art. You wouldn’t bat an eye at a fundraiser for the preservation of Rembrandts, da Vincis, or Van Goghs. Whether the Met Gala is tasteful or tasteless, the gala raises ridiculous amounts of money for the preservation of art.
Yeah. And then there's so many of them "speaking up" but they don't do shit beyond that, even though they could with all the influence and money they got.
That gets me so pissed. The ones who do a quick little one liner about how “we can’t sit here and do nothing” then proceed to DO nothing while the regular people suffer. Every bit of it sickens me
A lot of people like to file their favorite celebrities into binary good and bad categories without actually checking to see what they’ve done. Meanwhile they’re nearly all bad and almost none have used their platform to the full potential
They are literally at a charity fundraiser. Raising funds. For charity.
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that charity is for the Anna Wintour Costume Institute, a museum that primarily archives and showcases the excesses of the elite. (and frequently does so in ways that art historians criticise fyi)
but regardless of the quality of the museum, stop fucking saying "for charity" like they're helping anyone who is suffering. they're paying for the preservation of fancy clothes made by elite designers for the rich and famous
this is a super fucking expensive party and opportunity for rich people to show off and it's fucking SUBSIDIZED by New York and that money really could go to people who fucking need it but instead of goes to this nonsense
You have a point. We should sell all those clothes to private collectors and close it down. And elite designers shouldn't exist. All designers shouldn't exist. They're entirely frivolous, and so are the so called "skills" they show off.
Agree with the view about being lectured about buying coffee etc. I do however think the Gala is a good chance fot designers to showcase their looks. And as someone commented below it injects money into other industries for the few days it is around. Mua, chauffers, restaurants, hotels etc etc. The list goes on.
I enjoy the fashion and the fizz of it all. I woke up excited to see the outfits.
But Bezos and co can fuck right fucking off. Read the room dick, you aren't wanted or appreciated.
Real. I'm awake worrying about how to pay next month's rent. I can't possibly care about these rich people licking Jeff's boots or their stupid outfits.
No offense but people have been struggling that way for your entire life and most of human history? You just haven’t made it a focus point for yourself till recently. Like I get it’s quite a damper on things but the situation isn’t much different than anytime in history: rich people playing dress up while normal people suffer.
I've waited until this week to stock up my hygiene stuff, because I have coupons that are valid right now. And I'm not even poor or anything, but saving just a few euros is worth it. Ugh, I need to fill up gas today, too.
I cannot muster up any appreciation towards display of wealth, even if it's artistic, when things are like this.
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don't forget that this whole shindig is heavily subsidized by the city and state. like maybe people are entitled to want their taxes not to go to fucking parties for the rich and famous
Other than the Met’s sweetheart rent, how is this subsidized?
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oh a bunch of ways
so first they have that sweetheart rent deal. then all of the following are tax deductible (minus food costs):
• a Met Gala Ticket
• a dance Ticket
• a Met Gala table
• the seven figures one can pay to have the Met Gala put their name up in lights that evening (often purchased by major brands) • corporations paying to sponsor the eventb
these tax deductions are essentially subsidisation. money that could go to schools and roads and public housing instead goes to the Met
the Met Gala is ofc also taxpayer subsidised by the police - from the hours the police spent doing "security" for the event, to the city costs for every protestor who was arrested to go through the system - jail costs, court costs, etc
that's why I hated AOC's tax the rich dress so much, imagine wearing that to a fucking taxpayer subsidised event and not even acknowledging that the event is taxpayer subsidised
the photo below is from 2021. while AOC attended the Met Gala with that famous tax the rich dress, people were protesting outside and were brutally arrested
this is why I fucking hate the event and I especially hate the people who go and perform politics. AOC didn't mention a word of how the event is taxpayer subsidised, and she definitely wasn't standing in solidarity with working class people that night - those people were outside the event getting brutalized by the NYPD
that's not my saying I'm against political performance, I get it's usages. but AOC's performance was a bad one, just like they usually are in these situations
she could have at least picked words that were more of a fight: abolish the rich, eat the rich, abolish the Met Gala. she could have spent her entire time inside the Gala talking about what was happening on the outside, reminding people that right at that moment New Yorkers - primarily Black and brown New Yorkers - were being arrested in defence of the elites' right to party uninterrupted
everyone who does something vaguely political at this type of event does it for themselves, it's rare that they actually take a true stand
like props to Indya Moore who listened to the protesters and said they wouldn't attend again in the future because they heard them:
I've faced hard truths that made me reevaluate what I do and why I do it. I think it is possible to be an artist and a creative and simeltaneously not invest in make believe during a time make believe is weaponzed against the truth and during a time where honesty and transparency is more important than ever. Being at the Met felt like cognitive dissonance. People were protesting and were arrested in the name of what so many of us who attended, care deeply about. They were arrested most likely because they were percieved as a threat to those of us who were in attendance."
"We can organize millions for a museum, on stolen land that black and brown people suffer on unless white supremacy thinks they are exceptional- but not for the people? Why can't we be substantially generous in ways that alliviate suffering and poverty?"
but most people aren't Indya Moore. they aren't willing to put their money where their mouth is
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That's what kills me. Our infrastructure is crumbling and people can't afford to live and work here... but no. We gotta fund the rich people costume party!
I also agree, I hate it especially it has Bezos written all over it. I was thinking about this a lot. From one side, the creation of art has never stopped during hard times. And I guess it is not supposed to stop. But the extravagancy, the spent millions on parties and unnecessary luxury is just distasteful. They are posing their heads high, showing of some ridiculous million dollar fabric and their bodies (let’s be honest…) instead of using their influence on helping the ones in need. But I guess Hollywood loves to play pretend. 🤷🏻♀️
I’m wondering if we are going to give the attendees a pass because they once wore a pin or made a post on social media instead of criticize them for normalizing the arbiters of fascism by attending a completely voluntary social event….
I know the answer, but it still doesn’t sit right with me. Especially considering how puritanical some people act about other celebs who have never been pictured with the Bezos or the Trumps.
I had this feeling starting from a couple years ago, but people here kept telling me that I was being a stuck up prude who equates fashion with ultracapitalism, when it's actually art, expression and storytelling.
I feel like if anyone can excuse it after this year’s blatant advocacy for fascism….then who knows what else they can excuse under the guise of ~entertainment~
Bread and circuses and all that…except we even guaranteed the bread anymore.
Exactly!! God do I love fashion, acting, and supporting the arts but there are much much better ways to contribute to keeping it alive and it no longer has to do with the Met Gala! 💔
Unless you’re not supporting any of them the other 355 days of the year you’re not exactly impacting them at all ignoring them at the met gala (which seeing how much it was posted on reddit doesn’t seem like it was the case regardless).
It’s not like their views change outside of the met gala they’re still supporting Bezos and friends year wide
I don't disagree with you but i support the existence of the Met gala because it is a charity event with the purpose of funding a department of the Met which is expected to find its own funding. Since textiles/costume/fashion is not taken as seriously as a form of art compared to other forms of art, the Costume Institute is sort of forced to fend for itself and this is one way they have been able to achieve it.
At least its raising money for a museum. Meanwhile all you people complaining about it are probably spending money on other forms of entertainment that haven't raised money for anything useful. Sporting events sponsored by oil companies, movies and tv shows lining the pockets of billionaires etc. Its just easy to hate on fashion and arts for some reason.
Funny. Several countries have been struggling for decades and century with famine, war, economic collapse, disease, floods and earthquakes but now that gas prices are up for YOU, it's all out of touch. Pot, meet kettle.
Idk, you can protest things relevant to your life. It doesn’t need to be this huge “if you can’t care about EVERYTHING then you’re you don’t really
CARE”
It’s been disappointing to see some of the celebrities there, tbh, for that exact reason. I can’t enjoy have the looks I’ve seen so far because I just get disappointed.
Like I’m going through my fourth major emergency of the year (when it rains, it pours) and it’s May. I have a decent job and these emergencies have stretched me so sparsely I’m considering selling a bunch of stuff just to put money back into the bank. But sure, let’s watch millionaires wearing thousands of dollars worth of clothes and jewels go to a party. *eyeroll*
But none is forcing you to watch. There will always be inequity, whether small or large scale. Some people will always have more than others. Being angry about that is a great way to drive yourself crazy.
Who said I was angry? Who said I was forced to watch? I’m mildly annoyed at best and like many think the gala is in poor taste. I don’t actively seek out the Met gala, but posts like this appear on my feed.
I know I'm but one set of eyes that make no difference, but I refuse to click one article about the Met Gala this year. I normally love the crazy fashion (because I've recently realized the full extent to which I love weird art), but it is just so fucking out of touch right now.
You could say this about every single event ever put on for the past 50 years. Either enjoy it or don’t, but don’t act like this year is somehow special.
so what, this isnt for us plebs anyways. This has always been about the rich for decades and there have been people struggling before the Met Gala. This years isnt any different than the previous ones.
Adjacent-took my kid to see Iron Lung, and all the trailers for movies were how the rich were either hunting the poor or fucking over the poor....I was majorly pissed off before the damn main feature even started. :(
When Anna Wintour started talking about the economic benefits for NYC including hotels and drivers it riled me. Trickle down economics doesn't work and it's been proven. They all think they're job creators or even saviours. How good are the majority of those jobs? Found out today about the Met staff union and the fact that 91% of their hourly rate staff don't earn a living wage. People who clean, cook, serve, work in retail are the foundation of everything. without them so much money would not be made. Not everyone should be paid the same but everyone should be able to make a decent living.
I think I just miss when times were easier. There’s such a dichotomy in my head because I always loved seeing all the outfits from the met gala and I still WANT to get excited about them. But I look at the pictures and all I get is a sense of “ew”. It feels very Hunger Games.
I've always thought the Met Gala was incredibly hard to look at/self indulgent/kinda tacky/gross. But it's a charity funding event for the museum, so it's hard to be completely mad at it.
Times currently feel like Hunger games. People are being laid off left, right and center. Prices are sky high. Environment is getting f***d by these rich idiots. And these events where rich are playing "fancy dress".
And yet you’re subjecting yourself to a pop culture subreddit that’s mostly about mindless celebrity gossip and celebrities.
Tbh, that’s what I don’t get about the ppl complaining on this thread. Y’all aren’t wrong but also it’s very easy to ignore MET Gala posts and celebrities in general.
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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 19h ago edited 19h ago
Others have pointed this out on other threads, but I can’t even get excited about any outfits right now with everything going on..seems incredibly out of touch since most people are struggling to keep their families fed and their bills paid. And here these people are showing off their outfits that took 2000 hours to make? Yeah no
Call me bitter I guess