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So today I am bringing you the Met Gala recap.
Let's see if we can do this in a mini scroll sized episode.
I am not confident because I love to waffle and there is so
much to talk about, so many looks to go through.
But let's get into it. So every year on the first
Monday of May, Hollywood's elite rushed to the Metropolitan
Museum of Art for Fashion's biggest night out AKA the Met
Gala. Hosting this year's affair was
Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya.
As ambassadors of the event, they were responsible for
curating the aesthetics of the night and embracing the theme.
As Vogue notes quote, the role of a Co chair also expands into
the guest list the food, the decor, and the general feel of
the evening. While Internet users often treat
the Met Gala as a fashion show, it is an annual fundraiser event
for the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the New York City's
Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute.
That is a serious mouthful. That said, this year Soiree
celebrated the opening of a new exhibit, Sleeping Beauty's
Reawakening Fashion quote. The forthcoming show has not to
do with the Brothers Grimm or Disney, but rather the
celebration of clothing and fashion so fragile that it can't
ever be worn again, Lila Ramsey writes.
For Vogue, the exhibition was paired with a specific dress
code. This year, the theme was The
Garden of Time, inspired by a short story by JG Ballard
published in 1962. For those unfamiliar with
Ballard's work, the story follows Count Axel and his wife
as an unruly mob draws closer to the couple's tranquil villa.
Ultimately, the story is a dystopian take on modern entity,
pointing to the adverse effects of opulence, consumption and
destruction. Quote The story ends with the
unthinking mob descending onto the villa, now a derelict
property with a neglected garden.
Boiled down, the dress code as well as the exhibition is about
fleeting beauty. OK, so with that in mind, I'm
going to go through some of the looks.
This is not a comprehensive list at all.
I just had to pick and choose. And there are some key
celebrities and some key looks that I just did not have the
ability to put into these notes. I just didn't have time or I
just didn't really care about them, you know?
Like, I wanted to pick the ones that at least kind of gave me
something, whether I liked it, whether I didn't like it.
First off the bat, I wanted to say there was so much like
ethereal fantasy going on, which I really like.
I love that kind of aesthetic. But when it came to like the
Garden of Time, people really embraced garden and not so much
time. Annabelle was saying before
there was such a missed opportunity for someone to come
with like a million watches, like all up their sleeves or you
know, anything that was like more signifying of time.
I know that Tyler did have that hourglass purse which was so
sick, but other than that, like there wasn't a ton of, like time
imagery going on. And I feel like that was
absolutely a missed opportunity. Lots of garden.
OK, so first up, Emma Chamberlain.
She was wearing Jean Paul Gaultier and I really liked her
look. She felt very like gothic garden
fairy. I loved how ethereal and Drapey
it all was, but that was all black and Lacy.
I loved it. I actually one of my favorite
looks of the night. Her makeup was amazing, that
Smokey eye. I find her makeup, the Mechala
is always so stunning, and I don't know if that's just
because we don't see Emma and makeup very often.
I loved it. The only thing, there's one
little thing that I just immediately clocked and I could
not Unsee. Her foundation didn't quite
match her body. It didn't quite match, just
marginally, but I could not Unsee it.
But I loved that she embraced her natural skin tone like she
didn't have a spray tan. And actually, a lot of the
attendees really rocked like kind of a paler skin look, like
they're natural skin. And I loved that.
OK, the next one that I wanted to talk about is Madeleine
Klein. So she was wearing Tommy
Hilfiger. I hated this dress.
It looked like it didn't fit. First of all, I thought it was a
really bad color on her. It reminded me of like a
student, like a fashion student's first draft at what GJ
had Jujit, Jujit Hadid, Gigi Hadid's dress actually was, and
I'm going to talk about Gigi's in a bit, but that's what it
reminded me of. It felt like unfinished.
It felt like it was trying to do something that it just wasn't
quite achieving. And I really liked her makeup.
I love the white eyeliner, white eyeshadow.
I loved her makeup, but it felt like her makeup, her hair and
the dress they all belonged to, different looks like it wasn't
cohesive at all and it just felt very disjointed and off base.
And it was very upsetting to me because I love Madeline Klein
and I feel like she usually kind of shows out for this kind of
stuff. She's always a bit understated.
She's never like the most costumey on at the Met Gala or
on any red carpet, but she always, I feel like, does pretty
well and this was just a huge miss for me.
So next we have Zendaya. She was wearing Mason Margiela's
Jean Galliano, and this was such a powerful look.
Like, even look aside, anytime Zendaya shows up on a red
carpet, I'm like, Oh yeah, you were born to be famous.
The star power that just oozes out of her, it like, radiates
off of her, like she has fame. You know that girl in TikTok
that talks about how fame is like a resource, Like Zendaya
has that resource more than fucking anybody in the world.
It's actually unreal to watch her do a photo shoot on the red
carpet, do interviews. Like it's it's unreal.
Like she was meant to be famous. So anything she wears or does,
even if it's like the ugliest thing ever, she just absolutely
slays because she's just like amazing in her element in these
moments. I did love the vibe and like her
makeup was so sick. I didn't quite love the stripes
at the bottom. I just like fucking hate
stripes. Like there's just something
about stripes that like, feel really juvenile and like
clownish to me. So I really did not like the
stripes. I felt like it kind of cheapened
the look a bit. And then she had a second look,
like after the red carpet kind of finished, maybe 30-40 minutes
later she came back out and she was wearing this very like Pride
and Prejudice, like Jet Black dress, which I really liked.
But she was also wearing this hat.
And I don't know if this was on purpose, but it looked like a
giant fish was on her head, filled with flowers.
And I don't know if it was supposed to be like a fish or if
that's just what it ended up looking like.
But to me, all I could see was that she was wearing a fish on
her head. Next, Ariana Grande, she was
wearing lueve. I think that's how you say it.
I've seen some people call it low, but I think it's lueve.
So this look, to me, it was unsurprising.
I feel like it looks like everything that Ariana Grande
has been wearing in this era of her career since she, you know,
bleached her hair and is going for like a Manic Pixie Dream
Girl. And we've seen this makeup look
on her before, in my opinion. Like, she had these, I don't
know, I guess they were supposed to be like little wings, like
almost like fairy wings, kind of like off her eyes.
And it just reminded me of so many of the makeup looks we've
seen kind of in this era. Like I said, her dress had this.
I mean, I loved the dress, like it was a beautiful look.
It was just unsurprising and uninspired in my opinion.
I liked how it had this dropped waist kind of toga inspired
skirt that we saw a little bit of.
We saw a little bit of like this toga vibe going on on the red
carpet. But yeah, all together,
obviously. Beautiful look.
I think she looked like healthy and glowing.
She looked the best. She's looked in a really long
time in my opinion on this red carpet, but we have seen this
from her many times before, in my opinion, over the last couple
of years. OK, Gigi Hadid obsessed,
obsessed. OK, so she was wearing Tom Brown
and it was so Tom Brown. Like, it was so obvious.
I'm not even a fashion girly. And I was like, that's got to be
Tom Brown. I loved this.
I could not stop looking at it. And I have no idea if that's
like a popular opinion or not. I haven't really seen anyone
talking about Gigi's look, but I freaking loved it.
I thought it was So it was exactly.
In my opinion, it wasn't necessarily Gigi, but it was
very Tom Brown. It was exactly how like I would
picture that designer interpreting this theme the way
that I perceived it. It was like, you know, Gigi
shedding this kind of more masculine energy and emerging as
this, you know, beautiful feminine flower.
And it was just the symbolism was so spot on.
Like, I mean I I don't even know if you could call it symbolism,
like it was just like handed to us on a plate.
But I loved it. Like, I loved looking at her
dress. It was so interesting to look
at. And that's what I want from the
Met Gala, right? Like, it doesn't necessarily
need to be the most beautiful thing.
It doesn't need to necessarily be like the most fashion forward
thing. I just want it to be cool to
look at. And that for me, like Gigi's
look for me was that someone else I loved looking at was Lil
Nas X. He was wearing Lore and he had
50,000 Swarovski crystals all over this white suit and he had
these sick nails like honestly, OK, this is gonna sound so
unhinge, but they did remind me of Trisha Paytas's nails when
she used to get like Bejeweled nails all the time.
When she first started ASMR like 8 years ago, they did kind of
remind me of Trisha Paytas's nails, but loved them.
Very cool. I don't know if this was
necessarily on theme, but I thought it was so sick to look
at. It was so interesting.
And he did have the flower, like he had a flower brooch thing.
And I don't know, it was sick. OK, Dua Lipa, I hate to say it.
So she was in Marc Jacobs. But I really did not like this.
Somehow this look was both not boring at all and like the most
boring thing that I've seen on the red carpet.
Like if you asked me to describe what Dua Lipa wore on the red
carpet, even though I have literally looked at so many
photos of the Michaela in preparation for this episode, I,
you know, wrote this. I put her photo in.
I couldn't even tell you what she wore.
Like it was so not memorable and I don't quite know why.
And I know year after year we watch celebrities come on the
Met Gala red carpet and we're like, that is not on theme, but
I like it anyways or whatever. For me, being on theme is so
important to the Met Gala. Like that's one of the major
things that I look at. If it's interesting to look at
and if it's on theme, those two things I care about a lot.
And if it's not like, so obviously on theme, like if I'm
having a hard time understanding if it's on theme, then to me
it's not on theme. So it could be on theme, but for
me it's not. Next we have Kylie Jenner.
She was wearing Oscar de la Renta.
And I mean, this was incredibly boring.
I know it was based off of like a statue, but wow, this was so
boring. The only thing that I think we
haven't really seen Kylie do that she did in this look was
the cone bra. But this literally just looks
like every really chic, elegant look that we've seen Kylie do on
a red carpet. I don't know, we've seen it 100
times before. The problem with Kylie and also
Kendall, and actually I would also argue Khloe Kardashian, but
Khloe wasn't at the red carpet at the Met Gala.
I'll talk about Kendall in a second, But the problem is that
they care the most about looking hot, and I think that impacts
the looks that they actually could pull off.
And when it comes to Kylie, it's so disappointing because we've
seen Kylie let her guard down and like, rough it up and be
like, quote UN quote, like ugly in a photo shoot.
Like, you know what I mean? Like really be like artistic and
avant-garde and really cool, like this edgy grittiness.
We've seen that from her in photo shoots before and in her
modeling. But anytime she steps out in
public or does a red carpet or does a Fashion Week or whatever,
she cannot let her guard down. We never see that energy from
her. She has to put this guard right
back up where she's just like this stonewalled hot Kardashian.
And it's such a shame because she has so much potential.
Like we've seen the modeling shots.
She should have been the model in the family.
OK, Speaking of Kendall, she's wearing Shivanshi and same thing
as I said with Kylie, just too much of A guard up, you know,
her whole priority seems to always just being like looking
hot in chic. And she did.
She looked like a really hot brunette legless.
She really went for that like elf vibe.
It was a little bit more costume than I think we've seen her in
recent years, which I appreciate because this is like literally
the Costume Institute, but, you know, still pretty boring.
Someone else who went elf vibes was Carol G went as, like an
actual elf with, like, elf prosthetic ears, which actually
appreciated. Like, if you're going to go for
a vibe, like, go for a vibe like if you're going to go for like,
this costume, just wear the fucking costume.
And yeah, she looked exactly like, legless.
So loved it. All right, Kim Kardashian.
She was wearing Mason Margiela by John Galliano.
I actually loved this. I loved the dress.
Oh my God, I loved the dress. If you are going to do like
ethereal garden vibes, this is how I want it to be.
I feel like we saw a lot of dresses like Karlie Kloss's
comes to mind. I'm not going to talk about her
because I found it quite boring, but her dress for the red carpet
comes to mind where everybody kind of did.
If you're if they're going to go for like full on florals, they
did what she did, which is kind of like sparkly flowers all over
on like a mash or like nude dress.
So it looks like you're naked but you're wearing flowers.
Like everybody went for that vibe.
And this was such a unique take on it because it was like
similar, but it was like silver and just, I don't know, just the
way it was executed. I don't know the right words
because I'm not a fashion girly, but it was perfection.
I fucking loved the dress. And I know the shawl sweater
thing was kind of controversial, but I didn't mind it.
Like I thought it made the look really interesting and it didn't
take away from it. I think sometimes when
celebrities add things to their looks, like this, like costumey
things to their looks, it can take away from the dress.
I don't think it did that at all.
I don't think it necessarily needed the shawl, but I
understood where the vision was, I think.
But everyone of course is
talking about Kim's waist because it is literally this
big, literally the smallest waist that we've ever seen.
I mean, that's always her thing, OK, right.
So she always makes a body part, part of her outfits or
aesthetic. So for years it was her butt,
and now it is her waist and her arms.
And her obsession with her tiny waist started at the Met Gala,
if you guys remember when she wore that dress, I don't
remember. Was it also the same designer?
I don't remember who designed it, but it was that dress where
she was, like dripping. Like it looked like she was
dripping in water and Kanye was there as well.
And she had like, that slicked wet black hair.
So good. I loved that look.
So yes, that was, I believe the beginning of her obsession with
her tiny little waist and everybody's like, did she get
ribs removed? How is she doing this?
I think we forget how tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny Kim
Kardashian is. Like she's very curvy.
So she looks I think like bigger than she actually is on our
screens. But she herself, she's like 5
foot, like she is like a tiny little Polly pocket.
And her hip to waist ratio has always been quite extreme.
And I think over the years with her BBLS and things like that,
you know, that's only become more exaggerated.
So I do believe this is her real waist and it is wild because
it's so small. But she is so small.
Like she is like a tiny person. I think if you saw her in
person, you would be shocked at how tiny she actually is.
I don't think she's had like, ribs removed or anything like
that. I think she's wearing like a
really aggressive corset. And her hip to waist ratio is so
extreme that it looks so much smaller.
Someone else who is a tiny little Polly pocket is Sabrina
Carpenter. She was wearing Oscar de la
Renta and to me, this look was so underwhelming, so unfortunate
because she is literally the pop star of the moment.
And yeah, it was just boring. She could have worn this on any
red carpet. The glam I feel like she could
have just done if she did like a lighter brow, even like a bleach
brow. I don't know, maybe we're over
bleach brows. But if she did a lighter brow or
something more interesting with her makeup, she just did her
pretty much regular glam and it's like if she had just done
something more interesting, I think it could have helped.
But this all together was just so nothing, unfortunately.
But I did love, like I said about Emma Chamberlain, I loved
her pale skin, like her skin really was to me the standout of
this whole look, just how youthful and hydrated and
luminous it looked. And I loved that.
It didn't look like she had a spray tan and she was rocking
kind of like her natural pale skin.
It was very elegant and I loved that vibe.
But yes, disappointed for sure. Taylor Russell was in Lavey and
she had a drop toga waist like Ariana Grande and she had this
like wooden shield almost as the top with florals kind of painted
on it. Just very minimal, like two big
flowers on either like top and bottom.
And it was very cool. It was very interesting to look
at And Morgan Stewart said that this was real fashion.
So I'm going to believe it and I'm going to say that this was a
win because I believe Morgan Stewart and then Lana Del Rey.
She was wearing Alexander McQueen by Sean Mcgear.
I loved this. She was wrapped in twigs and
like draped in fabric, and she looked exactly like the antler
queen from yellow Jackets. That's like the first thing I
thought of. But it was so sick.
I think it was such an interesting twist, like a unique
twist on the theme. We didn't see anything else like
it, as far as I could tell from anyone else, and it felt just so
right. And so on theme, it didn't feel
over the top, it didn't overpower her, but it still felt
like a Met Gala costume, quote, UN quote, right?
Like something you would want to see on the Met Gala.
Because for me, the marker of a Met Gala outfit is like
something you couldn't wear on another red carpet.
So to me, perfect. OK, Sydney Sweeney, she was in
mew mew. Oh my God, this was such a miss
for me. Unfortunately.
First of all, I thought it was Billie Eilish and I don't know
why, but if it was Billie Eilish I probably would have liked it
more. I don't know, it was just
something. It felt so off.
This look completely overpowered her, especially the wig.
The wig was like too big for her head, almost too big for her
face. And it felt like a kid playing
dress up in a wig store, like a costume store, as opposed to
somebody stepping out for the Mechala, like one of the biggest
actresses in the world going to the Mechala.
It just overpowered her, like she was not wearing this look.
This look was wearing her Mindy Kaling, She was wearing Gaurav
Gupta. And I loved the back of her
dress. This is another one that I
haven't seen a lot of people talk about or mentioned.
So I don't know if this is, I don't know, a popular opinion or
not, but I really fucking love this.
I thought it was so sick. I loved the back of it and I
loved how it like twisted up to the front over her head, like I
thought it was so cool. It was one of the coolest
dresses that I think I've ever seen anybody wear.
It was sick. It felt like a look worthy of
the Met Gala. And then we have Cardi B and she
was the last one to arrive on the red carpet.
Zendaya went on the red carpet again after with her second
look, but as far as I know, Cardi waited until everyone was
off the red carpet and then she went on.
She was wearing window sin and it was this massive like giant
beautiful black tulle dress. I don't know if it was on theme,
but I don't know if it matters because it was so cool, like it
was ginormous, despite how ginormous it was.
It did not overpower her like she was fucking wearing that
look. She really has these amazing
high fashion moments. I fucking love it.
It almost looks like the embodiment of, you know, when
you're watching a kids movie. I don't know how to explain this
well. And they're in like a forest or
a jungle or something. And then this bad presence
starts to seep in to the nature and it like, overwhelms it.
And it's almost like this, like smoky, like black smoky fog or
like sludge or something. That's what it reminds me of.
Like it reminds me of an ethereal fairy forest that is
getting like contaminated with bad vibes, which is actually
kind of the theme. So I take it back.
She was on theme, OK? And my best dressed, finally, my
best best dressed was Mona Patel.
So Mona is actually a fashion entrepreneur, and she's not
super famous. She only have 15,000 Instagram
followers when she went on the red carpet.
She's like a philanthropist. She like combines her business,
combines philanthropy and fashion.
And I think she does a lot of other things in fashion as well.
But it was her first Met Gala. She was styled by La Roche and
she was wearing Iris Van Herpen and her dress.
I just thought it was perfect. It was ethereal, but it was also
like armor almost. It was it was it like combined
the theme perfectly. It was like she was wearing this
coat of arms almost to protect herself, but it was so ethereal
and beautiful. It kind of did feel a bit like
elfish. But then on her arms this is
like what did it for me. She had all of these butterflies
and they moved when she walked and it was so beautiful, like
stunning. I feel like this is the perfect
way to do something that's really feminine and beautiful
and ethereal while also being really interesting and different
to me. It was just exactly what the Met
is about. So that's that, guys.
I hope that this episode wasn't too long, but I'm sure you guys
won't mind. Thank you so much for listening
to Mini Scroll. I love you guys and I will talk
to you tomorrow. Bye.