Kleider machen Leute.

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Some less ‘shocking’ costumes. I love the one made from film strips.

Mouse

The Met Gala always has a theme. This year’s theme was Costume Art. The dress code was Fashion is Art. Many of the costumes referenced works of art or in one case, one of the marble statues on display inside. Strange though sometimes interesting.

There must have been some that were beautiful, just as much art is beautiful.

MartavTaurus

twaddle

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

It's probably fair to say that some posters on here don't get the point of it. I thought it was fun and some of the costumes were quite clever in the way they interpreted pieces of art.

Can you explain? You obviously mean me.

Lots of us. 😀

some posters oh dear, thought we weren't supposed to say that!

The Met Gala always has a theme. This year’s theme was Costume Art. The dress code was Fashion is Art. Many of the costumes referenced works of art or in one case, one of the marble statues on display inside. Strange though sometimes interesting.

Don't they all look just ridiculous?🙄 and probably paying £000s to do so 😃

Just plain silly.

Pass the sick bag Alice!

MartavTaurus

I know fashion is fashion, and I do like a bit of artistry, but can someone please tell these people that their clothes make them look embarrassing. At some gala last night.

Apparently the Met Gala is a gala for 'conceptual art' and the guests are invited to wear abstract pieces not fashion statements. Personally I find conceptual art weird anyway so I don't expect to like anything that is presented at the Met Gala. It makes you realise why Princess Katherine declines any invitations to attend.

Surely "Fashion is Art" is more or less the same thing - a depiction of art in fashion.

I thought the results were interesting - as much my "cup of tea" as some art exhibitions I've viewed.

twaddle

MartavTaurus

twaddle

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

It's probably fair to say that some posters on here don't get the point of it. I thought it was fun and some of the costumes were quite clever in the way they interpreted pieces of art.

Can you explain? You obviously mean me.

The Met Gala isn't a fashion show. Like art, it doesn't always produce results which are aesthetically pleasing in the traditional sense. There's a theme. This year it was "Costume Art". The idea was to interpret art in costume, which some people have done very cleverly. I looked through them and thought they were fun.

Well, that's strange because the gala was titled "Fashion is Art" and was referred to as this on the news. That was how it was billed, I believe.

The opening post actually mentions artistry, - the skills involved in being creative and innovative, so I think I got the point well enough.

Definitely not my cup of tea though.

Well,at least they'll be cool,not overheated.

MartavTaurus

twaddle

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

It's probably fair to say that some posters on here don't get the point of it. I thought it was fun and some of the costumes were quite clever in the way they interpreted pieces of art.

Can you explain? You obviously mean me.

The Met Gala isn't a fashion show. Like art, it doesn't always produce results which are aesthetically pleasing in the traditional sense. There's a theme. This year it was "Costume Art". The idea was to interpret art in costume, which some people have done very cleverly. I looked through them and thought they were fun.

MartavTaurus

😆
So obscene, GN aren't printing them?!
They appeared fine when I selected preview!

Nothing obscene about them just not to your nor my taste

They don't care if they look ridiculous. It gets them the publicity they crave.

twaddle

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

It's probably fair to say that some posters on here don't get the point of it. I thought it was fun and some of the costumes were quite clever in the way they interpreted pieces of art.

Can you explain? You obviously mean me.

I wonder what men really think.
That's the real question Wyllow3!

Coco Chanel: Si une femme est mal habillée, on remarque sa robe, mais si elle est impeccablement vêtue, c'est elle que l'on remarque.
Dress badly and they notice the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman.

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

It's probably fair to say that some posters on here don't get the point of it. I thought it was fun and some of the costumes were quite clever in the way they interpreted pieces of art.

Magenta8

On the subject of bottoms, it seems that a woman's fundamental shape is dictated by fashion.

It used to be fashionable to have a very large, often surgically enhanced, bosom. Now it seems that the emphasis in on the steatopygic look, also surgically enhanced.

In other words bottoms are in and bosoms are out. Or is it bottoms are out and bosoms are in?

Both are IN. One sticky outy up above, and the other sticky outy below. A sort of S shape from the side. I wonder what men really think. Women might get "looks" but...

Lindsey Vonn looked nice and no crutches. What a year.

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

Many designers are artists with true talent.

No-one is saying they are not.
They are saying that some of the outfits are just plain ridiculous, the models attention-seeking.

Why shouldn't a painter play the oboe?

NotSpaghetti

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Which goes back to themselves for their own Costume Institute where most of those daft outfits will probably end up to be gawped at by people like us saying how ludicrous they are 😁

On the subject of bottoms, it seems that a woman's fundamental shape is dictated by fashion.

It used to be fashionable to have a very large, often surgically enhanced, bosom. Now it seems that the emphasis in on the steatopygic look, also surgically enhanced.

In other words bottoms are in and bosoms are out. Or is it bottoms are out and bosoms are in?

I'm not going into competition here to argue further points!

Yes it was fun, in a funny, off the wall weird way, and not to my taste. I didn't say I wanted the event disallowed.

Just to say, the designers, (well most of them, not all!), may deserve credit, but the attention-seeking models don't, imo.

Well it raised $42 million this year. I don't call that a flop!

Many designers are artists with true talent. Like your skater they have skill and flair.
I wouldn't expect your skater to design and make my jewellery anymore than I'd expect a painter to be an oboe player or an architect to be a gymnast.

Why can't we just allow the Met Ball to be a bit of fun once a year.

MissAdventure

Yep, people have buttock implants now.
Does my bum look big in this?
Huge, really massive...
Oh, good!

Big scandals lately about people who aren’t properly qualified performing buttock implants, and too many going disastrously wrong. There was talk of action in Parliament to impose strict rules about who can perform such procedures, but AFAIK nothing has been done. I hope I’m wrong about that.

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Quite a nice attempt, and one of the better ones, at recreating Starry Night by a model there.

But not a patch on the skater wearing her interpretation at the Milan Winter Olympics.

Why? Because the skater herself has true talent, and expresses her art through a far more skilful genre. True artistry combining flair and real ability, imo.