Met Gala 2019 Katy, JLo, Gemma, and Gigi: the Met Gala silver headpieces No one can say that Katy Perry doesn’t put in the effort. When you walk the Met Gala carpet as a chandelier, that’s effort. Anna Wintour certainly appreciates that, year after year, Katy brings her brand of spectacle to the event. And never has a Met Gala theme By Lainey • May 07, 2019 07:49 am
Met Gala 2019 Yara Shahidi & Cara Delevingne: Camp Below The Belt I. Freaked. Out. Look, I’ll admit it. I thought the Camp theme was going to be too broad, and that most people weren’t going to want to risk enough to really come to play, or that the interpretations would be so vague they wouldn’t actually evoke that. By Duana • May 07, 2019 07:20 am
Met Gala 2019 RuPaul, Aquaria, and Violet, A Drag Queen Disappointment: Met’s Most Unfulfilled Potential RuPaul, Aquaria (Season 10 Drag Race winner), and Violet Chachki (Season 7 winner) walked the Met Gala red carpet yesterday, an important milestone. When I wrote yesterday about the Queer History of Camp, I said, “I’m a little disappointed, although we’ll have to see for sure tonight. With By Prem • May 07, 2019 06:37 am
Met Gala 2019 Cole Sprouse & Lili Reinhart: Met Camp Couple I didn’t stutter on that title. Obviously there are other couples tonight who killed it style-wise – more than usual, actually – and we’ll get to all of them. But the reason that Cole Sprouse and Lili Reinhart seem like the establishment here even though they’re early in their By Duana • May 07, 2019 06:19 am
Met Gala 2019 Harry Styles vs. Ezra Miller: Best Dressed Genderbender A lot of straight men apparently don’t understand Camp (I’m looking at you Taron Egerton, Rami Malek, and Seth Myers). However, there were a few contenders for the Best Dressed Genderbender which makes what I’m about to say super controversial, but I’m here to say it By Prem • May 07, 2019 06:01 am
Nicki Minaj Kacey, Hailey, Nicki: the Met Gala Barbies Nicki Minaj’s association with “Barbie” is well-known. From the moment she came on the scene, “Barbie” has been her whole deal, her “barbz” ride-or-die with her every feud. Seeing her last night in “Barbie” pink, with a “Barbie” high ponytail, was almost a throwback. Or a flashback. I keep By Lainey • May 07, 2019 05:46 am
Met Gala 2019 Jared Leto and the Olsens: Best and worst twins I’m cheating by calling Jared Leto a twin – he carried around his own head. Maybe that would be irreverent and serious and ridiculous if we hadn’t seen it before – Gucci did it in Fall/Winter 2018. A gag that is only a year old is not Camp. Jared By Maria • May 07, 2019 05:31 am
Met Gala 2019 Tracee Ellis-Ross & Lena Waithe: Best Met Messages Lena Waithe delivered the best statement at last year’s Met Gala when the theme was “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”, commanding the red carpet in a rainbow cape meant as a super-shield of support and strength for those rejected by a divine prescription that is selective and By Lainey • May 07, 2019 05:04 am
Met Gala 2019 Alessia, Emma, Lana, Lucy: Met Gala Tulle Tulle is, in and of itself, one of the most extra of fabrics. Tulle is not often used sparingly. Tulle is almost always presented to us in excess. Tulle is also a tutu, seen on ballerinas. And, as Prem wrote in his post about Camp yesterday, Louis XIV was the By Lainey • May 07, 2019 04:41 am
Met Gala 2019 Gal Gadot & Bella Hadid: Met Gala Personal Bests In the category of ‘honest confessions nobody will be shocked by’, I’ve never cared much about Bella Hadid. I mean I don’t dislike her in any way, but I’ve known her because of who her sister is or her boyfriend was and/or is, but never really By Duana • May 07, 2019 04:26 am
Met Gala 2019 Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina, Sarah Paulson: MET heist in real life There was a lot of gold on the red carpet, so much so that at one point I started making a list and then promptly gave up. I think some people used gold and pink as a shortcut to camp, and that’s what I think Mindy Kaling did with By Maria • May 07, 2019 04:15 am
Met Gala 2019 Saoirse Ronan & Rachel Brosnahan: Subtle Camp Blondes “Theme! Theme theme THEME!” That’s the refrain on Twitter, and honestly it’s often the refrain on our text threads – but at the same time, part of pulling off what is essentially a costume is knowing what works on you. Saoirse Ronan has consistently killed in her wardrobe choices By Duana • May 07, 2019 03:59 am
Met Gala 2019 Wendi Deng: Camp Defined and Defied I’ve spent the better part of the last two days reading about Camp, and the more I try to nail down a definition, the harder it is to understand. Prem broke it down wonderfully in his writing: “we can roughly categorize Camp as the appreciation and delight of frivolity, By Maria • May 07, 2019 03:40 am
Met Gala 2019 Billy Porter: Best Met Drama We need to listen to Debra Messing more, because apparently, she has a secret clairvoyant sense that no one knows about. You might even call her the Gay Whisperer. In an article explaining Camp by W Magazine, Debra Messing commented, “I hope Billy Porter is [at the Met Gala]. He By Prem • May 07, 2019 03:27 am
Met Gala 2019 Intro for May 7, 2019 Dear Gossips, Rihanna, the High Priestess of the Met Gala, did not show up at the Met Gala. I’m not mad about this decision. She knows now what she means to the Met Gala. She knows how people have reacted to her at the Met Gala. She understands the By Lainey • May 07, 2019 02:16 am
What Else What Else? A reminder once again that we’re pulling a Met Gala all-nighter and our first posts should be up at around 1am ET tonight and steadily rolling out through the early morning. Send us your thoughts, tweet us, let us know what you think of all the looks! Speaking of By Lainey • May 06, 2019 04:01 pm
