If you look back at the Met Gala photos from 2013, you might get a bit of a surprise. The theme that year was “Punk” – not exactly the most demure of aesthetics – but you would be forgiven for not guessing that immediately. There was some fishnet here, a flush of pink eyeshadow there – but for the most part, attendees simply looked as glamorous and chic as they might have done at the Oscars.
A decade later, and the theme of the Met Gala could not be taken more seriously. The annual event is hosted by Anna Wintour to raise money for the Costume Institute, which exhibits haute couture at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. This year, it was a tribute to the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, who headed up Chanel and died in 2019.
There was a lot of vintage Chanel – Dua Lipa in a tweed princess gown from 1992; Lizzo in a black dress with pearl harness from 1991. And many chose to pay tribute to Lagerfeld’s cat, Choupette: most notably Jared Leto in a football mascot-sized fluffy cat costume; Doja Cat in sequinned Oscar de la Renta and facial prosthetics that disturbingly recalled the film; and Lil Nas X with an abstract interpretation, in head-to-toe silver body paint and a face encrusted with jewels.
As soon as celebrities were able to give us insights into their real lives, the famous and non-famous, the special and the ordinary, began to merge. Celebrities’ relatable content began to wear thin. The rich and famous have found themselves, for several years, in a bind: be too outrageous and risk looking inauthentic – or be too relatable and risk undermining your own celebrity status.
In 2023, it’s clear that the former option is preferred. The Met Gala – an event that automatically separates out the “real” elite with its $50k ticket price and focus on frivolous, expensive high fashion- has transitioned from a showcase of tasteful glamour to a kind of competitive exhibition of performance art.
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