Wow! How beautiful!! Thank you, AW. Hopefully, those who photographed her before will notice, but they may not recognize her.

Springroz, yes!

Anyone care to share other Met Gala dresses?

Ir’s better than the white house dinner fiasco, but IMO,—and nothing against women in general, just a comment on her appearance—she manages to make everything she wears look tawdry, even a couture gown chosen by the famed Anna Wintour.

Sooo much weirdness.

(Although I do like the doggie basket.)

I only looked quickly, but there were only a couple I liked:

This one reminded me of the potential prom dress kswl posted recently.

https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/met-gala-2024-red-carpet-see-every-celebrity-look-outfit-and-dress

This slide show does a good job of highlighting some of the really fabulous details in the outfits.

The theme was confusing to me. And many dresses that I really liked were actually misses because I didn't care for the colors. (Michelle Yoegh, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina).

Sueb...Thanks for posting those...the bee netting one is OVER THE TOP weird!

I DO love the black flowered dress Anna Wintour is wearing. Elegant!

Love the detail in this. Alia Bhatt, a British actress.

Described in an article in the WSJ as a gown that "accentuated the bodice"

Ive never heard of Lauren Sanchez. I love the dress but not her over-filled lips and other body parts. Just googled her. Bezos.

There were some gorgeous dresses and suits and some Halloween outfits, as usual. I thought Anna looked nice, but she should, of course.

Collectively they looked like the cast from The Hunger Games movies.

KSWl, you disliked them all?

Mindy Kaling did look like Lenny Kravitz dressed her for Hunger Games but the construction of this dress is gorgeous. I mentioned above that I wish the color was different.

It's the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a costume ball - most of those are costumes. It's all in fun, IMO.

I don't know who more than half of these people are.

I don't care for most of what I am seeing.

(get off my lawn maybe).

Can they get someone to help Kim Kartrash? Woman needs help.

Yes, they are costumes!! We have a post on here about men’s actions toward women, and here we have women bashing women? Doesnt make sense to me how critical women are of each other. 🤷

I don't know who many actors are anymore since Joan Rivers died and Fashion Police ended. I would love to hear Joan's commentary on this years' outfits!

I wonder how they get to the Gala in some of the more sculptural dresses as they don't look like they'd fit in a car. Do the wearers stand up in a van and are delivered? Or do they get dressed at the Met?

Demi Moore:

I love that dress that kind of looks like a wedding gown with the white and then the flowers at the bottom. I see a lot of these type of floral wedding gowns, and I wish they were around when I got married!

Another one of my favorites the past few years is Quannah Chasinghorse, a fashion/runway model who is an Alaska Native American. She always has great looks for the Met Gala incorporating indigenous jewelry and art.

2024:

Previous years:

It’s all in fun and yes they are themed costumes.

LOL Sue

You'd probably like my guilty pleasure fashion website. It's snarky, but they are good about limiting comments to people's fashion choices and avoiding body shaming and other mean-spirited observations.

https://www.gofugyourself.com/

I saw so many I liked. Hard to choose a favorite, but Mona Patel’s dress is in my top five:

I hope this IG link works … the “sleeves” move:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6pbS2XgxQ5/?igsh=bDExZG4ycjA3bzUz

I think the overall theme was a good one, and there were lots of looks I liked. I really enjoyed the creativity.

Yes, do the heavily costumed guests get rid of the extra yardage and wildlife, let out the corset, or throw on a cardi (for the nearly nekkid) before attempting to sip a cocktail? I can’t imagine that eating was possible.

I did enjoy a bit of schadenfreude looking at feet and waists being crippled.

If only Lauren Sanchez had worn the Met Gala dress to the White House...

Eld, I saw an article in this morning‘s NYT festuring 20 notable costumes, They were all ridiculous and exuded more than a whiff of “let them eat cake" and I like the idea of these people standing in vans to be delivered to the Met. 😎 Those were the ones that IMO look like characters from The Hunger Games, sorry I wasn’t more specific.

Hu, I know they are costumes and I am bashing the costumes and the judgment— or lack thereof— that led to their selection. I am entitled to do that and it does not constitute hatred of women to declare that their sartorial choices are rubbish.

As always at those events there are beautifully dressed women who get no publicity.

I said nothing about hating women! Im glad some enjoyed the costumes and tbe imagination that went into them. Jilly, i also lined the one you shared. i dont think beauty was necessarily the point.

I think Meg Ryan looks fabulous.

Well. It seems that Lauren Sanchez chose her Pre-MET Gala Party dress as a ”I can dress anyway I want” message to Anna W. According to ”E” News.

I made a remark that was critical only of Bezos’ physicsl appearance, not his clothing or behavior, which was rude of me. I deleted it and apologize.

Whether we like them, find them pretty, etc, or not, they are remarkable pieces of design, engineering, and workmanship! My greatest accomplishment is a Spongebob costume made out of upholstery foam and mottled yellow fleece, and a glue gun! After Halloween, the fleece-magnet cat decided it made a great bed.

This dress was made of sand. I can’t quite wrap my head around that. I always enjoy seeing the looks.

Gigi Hadid's dress had lapels and sleeves (you can see floor through the gap between the "sleeve" and the skirt proper.)

Her dress was my favorite of the night. It's as if the jacket is slipping off of her down to her feet or that she shimmied out of it.Thom Browne's design, so creative. And she looks gorgeous!

The theme of the night was from a book. Do we honestly think everyone present read the book? Anyone here read it let alone heard of it? Anyone know what they do at this gala? Is it a dinner? a dance? awards? just milling and cocktails? I only ask because many of these costumes were not made to move in or even sit in. I watched one party goer being lifted up the stairs by a group of men because she couldn't really move her legs enough to get up the stairs. The men's outfits were as equally bizarre for those sensitive to women's critiques. It is fun to see the interpretation of the theme but in the end "tawdry" ruled the night and that IMHO is unfortunate. "The Hunger Games" came to my mind too. I'm left wondering do most care most about carrying off the theme or being the most shocking/salacious? Meg Ryan was posted above--never saw her dress paging through the "red carpet" arrays nor Lauren's. They weren't naked and or bizarre enough I am left to assume. There are a lot of couture looks that never make it off the runway. There's no place they make sense. This is one party where they do!!

The sand dress was later cut into a minidress!

Close up it looks like sand paper.

And yes, she was the one who had to be lifted up the stairs,

They really do get to the Met Gala standing up in a van! Here's SJP from her post on Insta:

Of course, I imagined them riding in a standard white delivery truck!

I was just reading that the Mercedes sprinter vans are all the rage with the rich and famous. The NYT article is a gifted link so you shouldn't run into a paywall.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/style/sprinter-van-mercedes-met-gala.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qU0.LbCE.XnVHIKYIienV&smid=url-share

I know someone who worked at The Met, and I was always jealous he got to see the inside story on so many things there.

Anyway, as others have noted, it is fundamentally a costume party and so the more outlandish, the better (in some ways). The only one this year that registered on my radar was Kim K's - that looked beyond physically-painful and was wandering into "potentially causing permanent damage" territory.

The person who was carried up the stairs was the one wearing the sand dress. They were afraid that the train would disintegrate going up the steps. And then as noted above - they had to cut off the bottom later because it was disintegrating.

SJP apparently didn't stay for the dinner because she couldn't sit down.

The theme was Garden of Time and like so much it's open to interpretation. Someone mentioned that they wanted Mindy Kaling's dress in a different colour except that her dress was mimicking sand and that is the colour of sand. I don't know if it was a sand dune or an hourglass of sand moving from one side to the other.

The Met Gala is usually used to showcase their latest show and in this case "Sleeping Beauties Reawakening Fashion" and is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute.

Yesterday afternoon I had time to read crap and chose to read about the Met Gala. LOL.

It's a nice distraction, if nothing else.

CBS's Faith Salie on the Gala.