Met Gala Moment

A "Florals For Spring? Groundbreaking " subtitle? Groundbreaking.

The Met Gala was Monday. I quit my job Tuesday and here we are on Thursday, reviewing the looks. The theme for the exhibit was Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion and the dress code for the Gala was “Garden of Time” which is the title of a short story that I’m sure only a handful of people read. This manifested mostly in florals (garden) with dark makeup (of time). The secret theme was birds and everyone who incorporated birds into their look automatically secured their invite for next year.

After last year’s snoozefest Salute to Chanel, it seems we’re getting back into a kind of prepandemic groove. It was smart to make the theme more a more tangible idea than sleeping beauties. I, like everyone else, thought it was going to be a long night of incongruous archival pulls. Everyone trying their best to outdo each other with the oldest most expensive dress they could find. I know the fashion girlies love their archival pulls but that’s not a cohesive theme and that idea itself is reaching its apex. I don’t know when that phrase entered my vocabulary but if I’m saying it, there’s a bubble and the Met Gala would have burst it.

The fun and terrible thing about the Met Gala is that everyone surprises you. The people who you want to do well, often don’t and the people that you underestimate or don’t like can look better than you ever thought they could. The Met Gala turns us all into reluctant stans and regretful critics. It also teaches us all how to pronounce Loewe.

Here are my thoughts on the Noteworthy looks from the Gala. As always, they are mostly in the same order as the Vogue List of every look from the evening. I suggest following along with that in the other browser.