Some of my favorite past Met Gala stunt queen moments are A$AP Rocky’s full quilt moment, Pope Rihanna, and Claire Dane’s light up Zac Posen gown. (Zendaya’s was also quite good but Claire did it first!)
None of those looks involved half-assery or significant T&A. Doja Cat gets under my skin because she’s such a trash person with zero respect for her fans and yet she makes decent bops. I like her music but I can’t enjoy it! Anyway, last night she wore a g-damn towel outside the Mark hotel and then a wet sheet at the Met Gala, both by Vetements. (I put a blur over her boobs for the header image so we won’t get penalized by advertisers.) Remember last year when she dressed like Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette? That was so much better. She is shown here with designer Guram Gvasalia. Oh and I checked his Instagram and he has a pic with Doja in a clear trash bag. He should collab with Kanye.
My favorite take on Doja’s look was from Christian Siriano, who went off on E! about how lazy it was. Go here to see that.
Nicki Minaj is also someone whose music I enjoy (her older stuff, her collabs) who is not a decent person. Unlike Doja, Nicki can bring it fashion-wise and she did last night. She was in a bright yellow Marni mini dress with metal flowers around it. As Christian said on E!, Nicki has a cartoony style and this fits so well with this. This is fun, it’s whimsical and she is working it. Marni has details on their Instagram story of how the dress was made.
Rita Ora was also in Marni, in a nude pantyhose gown adorned with ancient beads if she and her husband, Taika Waititi, were telling the truth on their red carpet interview. (Marni’s IG story has photos of some of the beads so they probably were.) It’s a shame to repurpose historical beads as vag curtains, but here we are.
Charli XCX was in a white distressed Marni gown with a pointy boob underlay. She said it was made of white t-shirts from the 50s I believe. Marni states on their IG stories that this is made from “patchworked vintage t-shirts, fully embroidered with rhinestones and glass beads” and that it took 200 hours. I can appreciate the craftsmanship while saying the final result is pretty bad. If I’m being generous I would say the details are cool but it doesn’t photograph well.
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Nothing screams garden louder than a bath towel and wet sheet. (Not)
This was the worst Met Gala. I get that the theme was hard to interpret, but there were so many bad looks.
Charlie XCX dress looks like a roll of toilet paper my cat chewed up.
I can’t bear Rita Ora and this *waves about like Karen from Will & Grace* doesn’t help.
If I say what I really thought here, I’ll get banned :-))
Sigh….look I do think society in general is far too prudish about sex and nudity (especially for a society that is far too accepting of violence)…
…BUT…
Shouldn’t the outfits at least be great? Fashionable? Nice at least? If the clothes are great and it shows some T&A? Fine. But if the clothes suck, the only point is attention seeking.
Exactly, that’s the thing, it’s playing to that prudishness. Call me when they just decide to go naked. This how far can I go, how many strings can I have over my bits without it being fully nude is frankly boring at this point. It’s attention seeking.
Exactly. The nudity doesn’t bother me but the redundant, uninspired and lazy designs of some of these sheer or barely-there dresses do.
Love Minaj’s dress–so cute and fun.
It is boring, and this is Met Gala. You should not go half nude at any gala. Go naked clubbing, who cares, but this is a fundraiser and it supports art. So, no to the naked dresses, towels, strings, and looking like Kanye’s wife.
Doja’s looks are giving abuse porn. One person’s art is another’s nightmare. Maybe that’s the point. It’s jarring to see tear stains and bed sheets like she’s trying to escape an abuser at a motel. High fashion mocking vulnerable people is what I see.
Love Nicki Minaj’s look! So fun and on point.
But the rest don’t seem to care much about the theme. And as others have said above, didn’t even do the looks well. SMH.
Charli XCX was lookin fierce, it was for the fashion girlies and the gays.
The designer with Doja is called Demna.
Christian Siriano’s commentary was my favorite part of the night.
I need him to do every event.
It’s a shame Rita couldn’t find enough ancient beads to finish the dress.
I’m not normally puritanical but these nude and nearly nude outfits send a terrible message to young girls. It’s always women who are half dressed and sexualized and that message mixes badly with me too. We are teaching girls their only value lies in being hot and turning men on.
Young girls don’t need to be limited to only seeing one type of clothing in the world to understand their value. They need to see people making an effort to protect both modest and immodest women. Women can dress both ways without it being a statement about sexual desirability or sexual modesty being all that they value in themselves.
That has got to be the WORST body stocking I’ve ever seen. She looks like she stretched Nanna’s American mid tan pantyhose over her body yet somehow they’re still saggy. She’s literally a pair of tights that walked through a 70’s beaded curtain.