The Met Gala !

NotSpaghetti thank you for those pictures, beautiful dresses, so many hours of quality needlework involved.

The idea that the suffragettes and women unable to walk because of clothes are in any men linked is tragic. Choicey choice feminism at its finest.

Are in any way linked that should say.

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Ha ha. OK Galaxy -
I do have others!
I think Gigi Hadid's was my favourite. By Thom Browne. Could go straight into the Met!
I love the way that it looks like she's climbing out of a floral dinner jacket! And think, like a wedding dress, it's lovely to take off all that heavy froth after the photos.

Really stunning. And here is an article with sketches and info about the making of it:

www.vogue.com/article/gigi-hadid-2024-met-gala

I wish they would credit the people who worked on these pieces of art... and hope they were all paid properly.

Yes that's a better one

Seeing the photos, I have to say I think some of the women did look lovely in the dresses they wore; what really annoys me though, is that they're treated like goddesses - even being helped up the stairs for goodness sake - pick your hem up and walk up YOURSELF. So many 'yes' people with them.

Tbh, the ridiculousness of the outfits pales into insignificance compared to this :- l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.instagram.com%2Freel%2FC6phPCVIiu6%2F&h=AT0xBCkUDSP4hr9riNGpoLlQkSbK29VzDBlzM1CoPeEYD-nnmcXGBxvRrnsk85VHEAwRflV397CQTr6_j5YqPr2qpg2E2fB8LVPlvhyy-ffn654Tsf4Yd419rhIb7rHCBw&s=1

I couldn't help comparing it to the excesses of Versailles - and look how that ended!

Bloody ridiculous I think men are designing these and the stupid women are following like sheep they re trying to make woman look more and more ridiculous and more like pantomime tranvestites
( the guy in the light mauve suit looks nice) but they re all ordinary suits just in different colours not anything stupid
I think it’s got to the point where they re all trying to outdo each other in stupidness
Yuk stupid yuk

I hope the people who made the stupid costumes go out of business Notspagetti

Heaven help anybody who had to sit next to most of them, their ludicrous costumes took up so much room. I think that Demi Moore's probably took up most space.
I just don't get the heavy thighed look that so many of them are going for now.

BlueBell, absolutely right. Well said.

Someone called Lizzo, apparently a 'rapper/singer' looked like a Sea Devil from Dr Who in the 1970's!

Just ridiculous most of them ...

May be, as you say… too revealing and provocative, however I choose to think of it a a form of walking contemporary art … which I think is how the couture and textile glitterati choose to express it … made all the more visible by the media and use of stars …

Hilarious that many of the ladies couldn’t even walk in their dresses without help from a flunky.

On the other hand Sir Lewis Hamilton looked divine!

I see it as clothes as art. I’ve been to several art galleries with special clothes exhibitions, with outfits like this.

As ‘art’, I don’t think they were meant to be practical. I enjoyed looking at them. A shame though, that women want to have surgery to reshape their bodies.

maryodette I’m on the same page as you

I agree Midnightblue - and amazing museums such as The Met and our V&A have fantastic facilities for study too.

Why wish the designers out of business?

I agree with Midnightblue the gowns were definitely art

Does not interest me in the least! They can do what they like....

Don’t get me started, and then there’s Eurovision. Not what it was.

I truly am calling out Kim Kardashian for the waist cinching that drew gasps from the crowd. I agree that attention seeking females trying to outdo each other are setting the wrong example for young girls.

Perhaps Kim will suffer long-term effects for this organ shuffling around in her body? How can that not affect your system?
I have no sympathy for her.

Especially in this era the more females scream for respect it seems like they are turning the page on that by strutting around in the most elaborately slut exposed clothing. I bet here are some men who are even turned off by that. Classless.

All that aside - there’s a THEME every year by which to design your gown and there were some very creative and lovely feminine outfits.

Let’s compare these risqué dresses to some of the gowns women wore in movies in the 1930’s, 40’s… No Bras(!), backless, sideless, “girls” just swinging around with aroused nipples. Was that scandalous then?

'The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in Manhattan.'

Its a Gala not an evening dinner event

That waist was ridiculous and all the bits that should be in the middle of the body were pushed out top and bottom
Absolutely ridiculous call it art if you wish but if it’s art it should be on a wall not restricting a body and teaching young how to look stupid and harm themselves