Naff stars put the meh into Met Gala
The Met Gala was both boring and out of touch… Yep I couldn’t agree more with The New York Post’s roaringly unapologetic headline this week.
Their chief writer Johnny Oleksinski had it spot on when he adhered the petit bourgeois annual trot out of Blue Peter DIY gowns to the Hunger Games.
We all know this designer War of the Roses is to do with charity, but does anyone even know who they raise money for?
Realistically it’s all about celebs and plebs air kissing arses and each other and trying not to trip on one of the most mundane red carpet nights of the year.
This worldwide content is churned out ad nauseam for our thumbs pleasure. I love a good fashion parade and have been at enough designer fashion shows and fashion weeks in New York and Paris to know and respect what is cutting edge and what is simply a carousel of wealth and ego.
From billionaires to trashy social media randomers parading around in ostentatious nonsense, this year saw some really laughable pieces of clothing. They weren’t art just belly laughing scroll fodder for us regulars. I watched in horror as some of my favourite new and old actors walked the carpet but seemed to do so because they felt it would be good for their profile and wore what was made for them rather than having creative input to the piece its lineage and mastery.
I doubt Cardi B had a clue what she wore. I mean is wearing nothing other than €7 nude ballet tights and a few beads a great acting career move, to me it deems you vacuous and vapid when there are widespread protests and angry warfare activism spilling from every TV you turn on. You don’t see music poets Bob Dylan or Keith Richards flouting a latex pink tux or Meryl Streep, one of the most renowned actors in history, with accolades to burn, appearing as a nymph of the forest made out of coke can rings like a bad college project.
Even some of the more renowned names Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Aniston, Jane Fonda wouldn’t walk it because it’s super naff.
Is a naked Emily Ratajkowski really our future? That is the burning question that needs to be answered. With Met Gala’s chief sponsor being Tiktok the social media platform threatened with a total ban in the US then we and our children are all in for an inane existence fuelled by blow up lips, see through crop tops and the vapid giggles of an overexposed model.
To sum up, my friend at the NY Post hits the nail on the head: “Predictably, more than 1,000 anti-israel protestors chanting ‘Gaza’ gathered near the glitzy soiree filled with some of the most self-righteous people in America.
Did the stars who wore Palestinian solidarity pins at the Oscars invite the crowd in for hors d’oeuvres? Of course not. They love to lecture until the situation affects their evening plans.
We need our own revolution or better still an enlightenment.
We and our children are all in for an inane existence
This year saw some laughable pieces of clothing