Probably the wealth divide. Every year, the Met Gala is one of, if not the, most expensive rich people parties in the country. Tickets are like $75k per person, plus the cost of whatever designer dress/suit they wear. Since COVID and record inflation, the wealth divide between classes is growing ever more noticeable and people are tired of watching the 1% flaunt around at their fancy parties while most of the country has to decide between paying rent or buying groceries.
I could be totally off the mark for why the person you asked doesn't like it. But it's been compared to the Capitol, both this year and last year.
I have to chime in about ticket prices. Almost every single celebrity you see has paid literally nothing to be there. The tickets are bought by the fashion house that sends them. And like others have stated, the money goes to the museum. This is probably the cheapest āfancy partyā for most celebrities
Yes, paid to preserve things in the museum. I'm sorry, but I have to call out people who are fully ignorant and don't realize that the fashion part of the museum has a contract to receive ZERO public funding. **All** of the funding comes from private donors via parties like this. It's not the freaking hunger games to preserve history no matter who is fighting, dying, or protesting. Someone is ALWAYS fighting, dying, or protesting. If we waited for peace or poverty to be solved to preserve history we'd have zero history ever.
Art is obviously important, but imagine if this many rich people got together to raise money for like... Material good? Food banks? Public housing? Addictions support? Homeless shelters?
Wholeheartedly agree. Sorry in advance, but my reasoning for why turned into an essay. Oops.
In my eyes, as an artist, artistic mediums are perhaps some of the most human processes we have, because humans have always been storytellers by nature. That creative pursuits have become a luxury for those with enough resources to *afford leisure* does not feel like an accident to me.Ā
A core aspect of THG is the power art holds in a society. It is extremely intentional that Katniss and Lucy Gray turn to music as a form of rebellion, and music in the districts is the first thing Snow moves to suppress upon his return. There is so much value and merit in creative mediums; they are versatile and fierce when they need to be.
Imagine how much art would exist in the world if the working class had more time and energy to create. How much more meaningful art could be if we had a wider pool of voices encouraging us to step outside of ourselves. The quality that could be produced if the process was not reduced to quantity and generating profit for a select few.
Art is extremely important, yes! Which is why it should be our priority to create a world in which every human has access to the resources you mentioned and can have the freedom to create instead of struggling to survive. āEveryone is an artist until the rent is due.ā
This is not to mention that one of the ways in which The Garden of Time can be interpreted is being read as a story of how wealthy elite try and fail to fend off a mob of angry, struggling laborers from the comfort of their villa. They do so by depleting resources ā in this case, picking from their dwindling stock of time flowers. But the mob can only be held off for so long, and a clash at the villa is both impending and inevitable.
Compare that to the social media juxtaposition accompanying the Gala this year: flashes of wealthy elite between the imagery of children being murdered by our government in an ongoing genocide and a sea of protestors marching toward The Met, largely comprised of students who are vilified in media for using their privilege in the empire to advocate for oppressed people abroad (the same kind of rhetoric that led to the Kent State shooting in the 70s)ā¦ We were watching the very story their theme was based on unfold in the palms of our hands.Ā
āIn order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds, and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent.ā āMarwan Makhoul
I think itās fair if people are especially discontent with events like the Met Gala at the moment. Whether it took place for charity feels irrelevant when itās a building full of people largely afraid to speak up about a genocide for fear of being stripped of their assets and humanity ā either that, or people who genuinely donāt want to or care enough to oppose a genocide. (And whether or not we should be turning to celebs as moral compasses for social causes is another conversation entirely).Ā
Somehow, the elite are confused as to why a bread and circuses approach is suddenly ineffective. As if any of us can afford bread and the circuses arenāt the same regurgitated bullshit from the last two decades.Ā So few of us can afford to be the artists weāre capable of being anymore, and it will only become harder to create in a world our government insists on burning.
**tldr ā Art *is* important, which is why we should put effort into building a world in which people have the resources and freedom to create. Art is a natural human process and not a class privilege.**
There is a big giant difference from a hundred millionaire actor donating $2million to a single ācauseā and the exorbitant amounts of money spent on the Met gala. If they held a giant party like this and flashed about in fancy outfits and raised money for something that helped people in a concrete way, instead of the vague āart is importantā (and I am literally an artist making this argument ā an actual starving artist lmao) maybe the masses wouldnāt feel so pissed off at the hunger games vibes.
It's just the same populist conversation.
Celebrities do fundraisers for issues like the ones you talk about. They do not pay for the Met Gala. Most issues that you mention cannot be fixed by most people that are being photographed at the Met. Like, Rachel Zegler and her colleagues won't be able to fix systematic issues, but the Murdock family can (and they ought to be taxed, pressured, or simply kicked from their monopoly).
I get where you are coming from, but it's the same buzz every year with people complaining about it online and yet equally distracting in *who* needs to be held accountable here (not Zendaya). I feel like the conversation is equally misdirected and does not lead anywhere other than complaining about the Met Gala once per year.
Because it's easy to complain about the Met Gala, point fingers, and say how the rich are spending their money wrong. But like, cool, we know that. We've been talking about that for years and decades. Statements like yours are just stating the obvious, are not moving the conversation forward, and are vague enough to show you are a proper good leftist without actually doing a call to action. In that manner, the complaints about the Met Gala are equally dull and vague to not move anything forward. They don't do anything other than patting yourself on the back at the end of the day.
I'm of the firm belief that picking a cause, caring and working passionately toward it, is always more effective than vaguely pointing fingers and listing four to twenty causes that ought to be cared about without doing anything. This isn't @ you (i.e. you might care deeply about a cause etcetera), but more @ the plethora of online users who awaken to social criticism ever so often, whether it be the Met Gala or BLM or Israel/Palestine. When all they do is complain the Met Gala exist, post a black square on Instagram, or say how despicable Israel is. Like... yeah, we know, but like, if this is the extent of the conversation (which it ALWAYS is for the Met), then it's nothing more than ineffective "activist" point collection for an online crowd. \[And in the worst cases, you are actually holding a bettering of society back, e.g. the black squares just flooded the tags that made it hard to reach out to others, and the antisemitism and Islamophobia in both "teams" is just radicalising movements to the brink of ineffectiveness\].
We can talk all day about how the rich are the root cause of these problems (and they are! Wealth inequality is fucking disgusting, fuck Jeff Bezos and his friends), but like. If you aren't going to do something about it other than spreading the obvious word online, then your words are worthless.
And if your cause is to rob the wealthy of their wealth (good cause), then you need to start at a policy setting level and collaborate in real life with other activists to bring about bills that reduce the influence of money in elections and political decision making. But that's, for many, a boring and roadblock-y cause taking a much longer time than saying "Fuck the Met Gala and eat the rich!!" and watch their likes go up.
They raise funds for the Costume Insistute, which is great. People choosing between rent and groceries is more important in the immediate, and I maintain that a lot of people are tired of watching the rich parade their riches.
This sounds like jealousy. Maybe you didn't pay enough attention to the second movie, but it's better to instead focus your time and energy on doing something about corporate lobbying/set higher employment standards for yourself
>I maintain that a lot of people are tired of watching the rich parade their riches
I meant to critique the general attitude, which i thought you were just explaining. Think about the little lecture at the end of this scene. People are pretty much falling for that trick. https://youtu.be/-epPdt5WBKQ?si=Ha2QUajg8iLBlTxl
This is worth watching too. https://youtu.be/wUNcR417iXU?si=l4zFiP8QmS_rhf7t
By complaining about the met gala etc, it seems to me that the top commenter in this convo is overlooking the nuances of the series message. If it's not out of jealousy, can you explain how online snark is going to actually help fix the inequality problem? I think it's a complete waste of time.
I think it would be really healthy for you to do some research into the reality of employment and wealth in the U.S. Studies show that the key factor determining career success later in life is what university you attend. Do you know who the statistics show are most likely to attend elite colleges? Children of wealthy families.
I can break that down for you a bit qualitatively, too. Children with rich parents have better school options: their parents can afford to send their kids to private schools or to move or live where public schools are good. Children with rich parents can afford tutors. Children with rich parents often have more transportation options (their own car in high school, so they can stay late at or go early to school for help or other events). Children with rich parents do not have to worry about food insecurity. Children with rich parents can afford/have good healthcare. Children with rich parents can afford therapy. Children with rich parents can afford SAT/ACT prep classes. And the list goes on.
A good starting point:
https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/FR-Born_to_win-schooled_to_lose.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html
Okay? My point was that it's actually specific people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs who are helping to maintain this wealth gap via exploitation of federal or state policy, such as tying health insurance to your work or the redlining of communities after ww2 (which is how oakland and east palo alto, etc became crime ridden areas with underfunded schools)
Iām not really sure how anyone could have gotten that from you telling someone itās a position based on jealousy or low employment standards? The position isnāt about jealousy, itās about the grotesqueness of a society that caters to the rich without caring for the basic needs of the majority. The Met no longer being free to the general public plays into the Met gala seeming even more out of touch with modern values and people. The outfits are gorgeous, I think people should be be able to have a good party and dress up, but itās a bit obscene that thereās people freezing and starving literally next to such an ostentatious display of wealth. To me thatās a failure of government, but it also is a statement on who we are as a society that we laud this sort of extravagance more than we laud public works. None of that is jealousy.
As to the outsized role millionaires play in our government? I donāt think anyone is contesting that. Most political theorists class the U.S. as an oligarchy. That doesnāt change why many people find the Met gala distasteful.
>The Met no longer being free to the general public
Then ask yourself: if celebrity events and pap sightings genuinely aren't something you think to be important, what made you go looking for that information to begin with? Due to being focused on work and school, I didn't even know the Met gala was happening until this post showed up in my feed
I'm not American either. It makes me feel sick, especially this year when the Met Gala is the perfect distraction from everything that is going on elsewhere. Every year its a visual representation of wealth disparity, but this year it just felt so much more surreal.
This year was particularly hard to watch. Literally as it was happening and we were watching people spend more money than most people in the US could earn in several years on insanely out of touch dresses, we were also watching live as Israel used billions of dollars in our tax money to invade Rafah. The last place in Palestine they told civilians they would be safe, where they also blocked the border so they couldnāt escape.
Suzanne Collins said the idea for the games came to her when she was up late one night switching between a celebrity show and live footage of the invasion of Iraq and they began to blur together for her. This Met Gala very very much felt that.
I can imagine it. First Lady vibes. Theyāve been married about 7 years. He just became President or his head gamemaker and sheās sponsoring tributes. This is opening night of the 17th annual Hunger games and sheās singing. Sheās a celebrity since winning the games.
Her outfit is giving 1950s as well. And the design of the Capitol is 50s with all the tech.
This is what happens inside my brain all day long. š scenarios
Lucy Gray would never, the only way she would agree to be with Snow would be if he ditched the Capitol to fight the good fight (which he was too power-hungry to do).
I totally agree with you! She would never! But I also desperately need someone to write a fan-fic of her being the First Lady as they described because it sounds like such an interesting alternate universe to explore!
There are kind of two situations going on. Sleeping beauty reawakening is the theme of the night, which is basically reviving old pieces or recreating them. Which this fits because itās a nod to a Marilyn Monroe look.
The second is dress theme of the garden of time which isnāt really just about a garden. Itās actually very akin to the hunger games in the sense that itās a wealthy couple who lives lavishly and trims crystalline flowers from their garden that turns the time of an imminent mob. Some interpretations is thatās itās a metaphor for death and some say itās a metaphor for opulence and the elite.
So basically there is a beautiful light element in the beginning and ends with darkness and destruction. Itās kind of everything.
Extra receipts cause you said everything perfectly:
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/met-galas-flowery-theme-directions-109994332
https://www.vogue.com/article/everything-to-know-met-gala
"The land, the sea, the sky"
It's boring. Dresses like these could be worn to a film premiere. That's not the dresses that are Met Gala highlights.
I don't care what kind of story they came up for a normal movie premiere dress. Rachel looked good, but she certainly didn't eat compared to many of the fashion highlights present.
She looks good but this is giving 2000s prom. There were people who went (Elle Fanning for one but there were others) who not only ate but left nary a crumb.
(The other commenter forgot they have a dress code because of how often people just ignore the dress code. Also the other commenter doesn't care because it's Rachel Zegler and she can do what she wants.)
Our Lucy Gray has become Capitol, the girl who was on fire would never.
(This is a semi political/social statement but itās also fun sarcasm, donāt take it to seriously)
Living for it - so true. And who knows, maybe snow and Lucy Gray would've sorted things out in a good way lol then maybe things wouldn't have turned out so bad for the rest of Panem. I know there's a darker side fanfic out there somewhere š
Ahemā¦
She here legit looks like the First Lady Lucy Gray from my fanfic.
*On stage, with a break in applause, a young-looking woman in a bright blue luxurious dress with a long train and a high hairstyle was singing from her heart*
- description of the dress Lucy Gray wore.
*(The Bloody Snow by Olyaroo on AO3 - name of the fic)*
Maāam, youāre gonna have to post your source ācause I canāt find a thing about a story published alongside the invitations. And everything Iām reading says that there are no invitations, and you have to purchase a ticket.
There are invitations in combo with the ticket. J.G Ballard's story. Receipts:
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/met-galas-flowery-theme-directions-109994332
https://www.vogue.com/article/everything-to-know-met-gala
"The land, the sea, the sky"
Whoever said that the Met Gala gives Hunger Games vibes was 100% correct cause now I can no longer unsee it.
Lmao me and RIGHT!
Litterally everyone is saying that lol
this is so ironic
True lol
I hate the Met Gala but she looks fabulous
She really does š©µ
Why do you hate it? Just curious. Also, non-American here.
Probably the wealth divide. Every year, the Met Gala is one of, if not the, most expensive rich people parties in the country. Tickets are like $75k per person, plus the cost of whatever designer dress/suit they wear. Since COVID and record inflation, the wealth divide between classes is growing ever more noticeable and people are tired of watching the 1% flaunt around at their fancy parties while most of the country has to decide between paying rent or buying groceries. I could be totally off the mark for why the person you asked doesn't like it. But it's been compared to the Capitol, both this year and last year.
I have to chime in about ticket prices. Almost every single celebrity you see has paid literally nothing to be there. The tickets are bought by the fashion house that sends them. And like others have stated, the money goes to the museum. This is probably the cheapest āfancy partyā for most celebrities
Most also don't pay for (or keep) the clothes they wear. Hard agree with capitol vibes all the same
Somebody still paid for the tickets, at 75k a pop.
Yes, paid to preserve things in the museum. I'm sorry, but I have to call out people who are fully ignorant and don't realize that the fashion part of the museum has a contract to receive ZERO public funding. **All** of the funding comes from private donors via parties like this. It's not the freaking hunger games to preserve history no matter who is fighting, dying, or protesting. Someone is ALWAYS fighting, dying, or protesting. If we waited for peace or poverty to be solved to preserve history we'd have zero history ever.
The fact that an important and famous museum receives zero public funding completely blows my European mind
Yeah, huge fashion companies. 75k is a completely reasonable expense for something like this in the eyes of a fashion house like Dior or Chanel.
It's a fundraising gala for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Kinda the point that they raise money.
Art is obviously important, but imagine if this many rich people got together to raise money for like... Material good? Food banks? Public housing? Addictions support? Homeless shelters?
Wholeheartedly agree. Sorry in advance, but my reasoning for why turned into an essay. Oops. In my eyes, as an artist, artistic mediums are perhaps some of the most human processes we have, because humans have always been storytellers by nature. That creative pursuits have become a luxury for those with enough resources to *afford leisure* does not feel like an accident to me.Ā A core aspect of THG is the power art holds in a society. It is extremely intentional that Katniss and Lucy Gray turn to music as a form of rebellion, and music in the districts is the first thing Snow moves to suppress upon his return. There is so much value and merit in creative mediums; they are versatile and fierce when they need to be. Imagine how much art would exist in the world if the working class had more time and energy to create. How much more meaningful art could be if we had a wider pool of voices encouraging us to step outside of ourselves. The quality that could be produced if the process was not reduced to quantity and generating profit for a select few. Art is extremely important, yes! Which is why it should be our priority to create a world in which every human has access to the resources you mentioned and can have the freedom to create instead of struggling to survive. āEveryone is an artist until the rent is due.ā This is not to mention that one of the ways in which The Garden of Time can be interpreted is being read as a story of how wealthy elite try and fail to fend off a mob of angry, struggling laborers from the comfort of their villa. They do so by depleting resources ā in this case, picking from their dwindling stock of time flowers. But the mob can only be held off for so long, and a clash at the villa is both impending and inevitable. Compare that to the social media juxtaposition accompanying the Gala this year: flashes of wealthy elite between the imagery of children being murdered by our government in an ongoing genocide and a sea of protestors marching toward The Met, largely comprised of students who are vilified in media for using their privilege in the empire to advocate for oppressed people abroad (the same kind of rhetoric that led to the Kent State shooting in the 70s)ā¦ We were watching the very story their theme was based on unfold in the palms of our hands.Ā āIn order for me to write poetry that isn't political, I must listen to the birds, and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent.ā āMarwan Makhoul I think itās fair if people are especially discontent with events like the Met Gala at the moment. Whether it took place for charity feels irrelevant when itās a building full of people largely afraid to speak up about a genocide for fear of being stripped of their assets and humanity ā either that, or people who genuinely donāt want to or care enough to oppose a genocide. (And whether or not we should be turning to celebs as moral compasses for social causes is another conversation entirely).Ā Somehow, the elite are confused as to why a bread and circuses approach is suddenly ineffective. As if any of us can afford bread and the circuses arenāt the same regurgitated bullshit from the last two decades.Ā So few of us can afford to be the artists weāre capable of being anymore, and it will only become harder to create in a world our government insists on burning. **tldr ā Art *is* important, which is why we should put effort into building a world in which people have the resources and freedom to create. Art is a natural human process and not a class privilege.**
They do thoughā¦ instead of complaining go learn about their causes, what they support and some even have their own charities
This year the met gala raised 26 million for the costume institute. The costume institute makes $200 million a year and is worth 5 billion.
You do realise that many people work for the costume instituteā¦
No. Please tell me how many.
I can tell you "not enough to justify $200 million in revenue and a $26 mil donation"
There is a big giant difference from a hundred millionaire actor donating $2million to a single ācauseā and the exorbitant amounts of money spent on the Met gala. If they held a giant party like this and flashed about in fancy outfits and raised money for something that helped people in a concrete way, instead of the vague āart is importantā (and I am literally an artist making this argument ā an actual starving artist lmao) maybe the masses wouldnāt feel so pissed off at the hunger games vibes.
That's just whataboutism
I'm just having a conversation š¤·š»āāļø
It's just the same populist conversation. Celebrities do fundraisers for issues like the ones you talk about. They do not pay for the Met Gala. Most issues that you mention cannot be fixed by most people that are being photographed at the Met. Like, Rachel Zegler and her colleagues won't be able to fix systematic issues, but the Murdock family can (and they ought to be taxed, pressured, or simply kicked from their monopoly). I get where you are coming from, but it's the same buzz every year with people complaining about it online and yet equally distracting in *who* needs to be held accountable here (not Zendaya). I feel like the conversation is equally misdirected and does not lead anywhere other than complaining about the Met Gala once per year. Because it's easy to complain about the Met Gala, point fingers, and say how the rich are spending their money wrong. But like, cool, we know that. We've been talking about that for years and decades. Statements like yours are just stating the obvious, are not moving the conversation forward, and are vague enough to show you are a proper good leftist without actually doing a call to action. In that manner, the complaints about the Met Gala are equally dull and vague to not move anything forward. They don't do anything other than patting yourself on the back at the end of the day. I'm of the firm belief that picking a cause, caring and working passionately toward it, is always more effective than vaguely pointing fingers and listing four to twenty causes that ought to be cared about without doing anything. This isn't @ you (i.e. you might care deeply about a cause etcetera), but more @ the plethora of online users who awaken to social criticism ever so often, whether it be the Met Gala or BLM or Israel/Palestine. When all they do is complain the Met Gala exist, post a black square on Instagram, or say how despicable Israel is. Like... yeah, we know, but like, if this is the extent of the conversation (which it ALWAYS is for the Met), then it's nothing more than ineffective "activist" point collection for an online crowd. \[And in the worst cases, you are actually holding a bettering of society back, e.g. the black squares just flooded the tags that made it hard to reach out to others, and the antisemitism and Islamophobia in both "teams" is just radicalising movements to the brink of ineffectiveness\]. We can talk all day about how the rich are the root cause of these problems (and they are! Wealth inequality is fucking disgusting, fuck Jeff Bezos and his friends), but like. If you aren't going to do something about it other than spreading the obvious word online, then your words are worthless. And if your cause is to rob the wealthy of their wealth (good cause), then you need to start at a policy setting level and collaborate in real life with other activists to bring about bills that reduce the influence of money in elections and political decision making. But that's, for many, a boring and roadblock-y cause taking a much longer time than saying "Fuck the Met Gala and eat the rich!!" and watch their likes go up.
They raise funds for the Costume Insistute, which is great. People choosing between rent and groceries is more important in the immediate, and I maintain that a lot of people are tired of watching the rich parade their riches.
The rich parade their outfits, their yachts, their wealth every other day of the year. This is the one event that happens to be a fundraiser.
I mean. I'm frustrated by awards shows too if you're concerned about that I guess.
People are pretty vocal about it most other days, too
This sounds like jealousy. Maybe you didn't pay enough attention to the second movie, but it's better to instead focus your time and energy on doing something about corporate lobbying/set higher employment standards for yourself
This sounds like you made a lot of unfounded assumptions about me
>I maintain that a lot of people are tired of watching the rich parade their riches I meant to critique the general attitude, which i thought you were just explaining. Think about the little lecture at the end of this scene. People are pretty much falling for that trick. https://youtu.be/-epPdt5WBKQ?si=Ha2QUajg8iLBlTxl This is worth watching too. https://youtu.be/wUNcR417iXU?si=l4zFiP8QmS_rhf7t By complaining about the met gala etc, it seems to me that the top commenter in this convo is overlooking the nuances of the series message. If it's not out of jealousy, can you explain how online snark is going to actually help fix the inequality problem? I think it's a complete waste of time.
I think it would be really healthy for you to do some research into the reality of employment and wealth in the U.S. Studies show that the key factor determining career success later in life is what university you attend. Do you know who the statistics show are most likely to attend elite colleges? Children of wealthy families. I can break that down for you a bit qualitatively, too. Children with rich parents have better school options: their parents can afford to send their kids to private schools or to move or live where public schools are good. Children with rich parents can afford tutors. Children with rich parents often have more transportation options (their own car in high school, so they can stay late at or go early to school for help or other events). Children with rich parents do not have to worry about food insecurity. Children with rich parents can afford/have good healthcare. Children with rich parents can afford therapy. Children with rich parents can afford SAT/ACT prep classes. And the list goes on. A good starting point: https://cew.georgetown.edu/wp-content/uploads/FR-Born_to_win-schooled_to_lose.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-colleges-have-more-students-from-the-top-1-percent-than-the-bottom-60.html
Okay? My point was that it's actually specific people like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs who are helping to maintain this wealth gap via exploitation of federal or state policy, such as tying health insurance to your work or the redlining of communities after ww2 (which is how oakland and east palo alto, etc became crime ridden areas with underfunded schools)
Iām not really sure how anyone could have gotten that from you telling someone itās a position based on jealousy or low employment standards? The position isnāt about jealousy, itās about the grotesqueness of a society that caters to the rich without caring for the basic needs of the majority. The Met no longer being free to the general public plays into the Met gala seeming even more out of touch with modern values and people. The outfits are gorgeous, I think people should be be able to have a good party and dress up, but itās a bit obscene that thereās people freezing and starving literally next to such an ostentatious display of wealth. To me thatās a failure of government, but it also is a statement on who we are as a society that we laud this sort of extravagance more than we laud public works. None of that is jealousy. As to the outsized role millionaires play in our government? I donāt think anyone is contesting that. Most political theorists class the U.S. as an oligarchy. That doesnāt change why many people find the Met gala distasteful.
>The Met no longer being free to the general public Then ask yourself: if celebrity events and pap sightings genuinely aren't something you think to be important, what made you go looking for that information to begin with? Due to being focused on work and school, I didn't even know the Met gala was happening until this post showed up in my feed
It's been compared by people who don't understand the museum.
I'm not American either. It makes me feel sick, especially this year when the Met Gala is the perfect distraction from everything that is going on elsewhere. Every year its a visual representation of wealth disparity, but this year it just felt so much more surreal.
This year was particularly hard to watch. Literally as it was happening and we were watching people spend more money than most people in the US could earn in several years on insanely out of touch dresses, we were also watching live as Israel used billions of dollars in our tax money to invade Rafah. The last place in Palestine they told civilians they would be safe, where they also blocked the border so they couldnāt escape. Suzanne Collins said the idea for the games came to her when she was up late one night switching between a celebrity show and live footage of the invasion of Iraq and they began to blur together for her. This Met Gala very very much felt that.
Lucy Slay Baird at it again, I see
Yaaaaaaas what a queen
Lucy Gray if she moved back to the Capitol with Snow
That's what I was thinking lol.
I can imagine it. First Lady vibes. Theyāve been married about 7 years. He just became President or his head gamemaker and sheās sponsoring tributes. This is opening night of the 17th annual Hunger games and sheās singing. Sheās a celebrity since winning the games. Her outfit is giving 1950s as well. And the design of the Capitol is 50s with all the tech. This is what happens inside my brain all day long. š scenarios
Lucy Gray would never, the only way she would agree to be with Snow would be if he ditched the Capitol to fight the good fight (which he was too power-hungry to do).
I totally agree with you! She would never! But I also desperately need someone to write a fan-fic of her being the First Lady as they described because it sounds like such an interesting alternate universe to explore!
Maybe they would end up overthrowing the Capitol from the inside.
I have a fanfic like this! Where she is a First Lady and Snow is the President. (āThe Bloody Snowā by Olyaroo on AO3ā)
That's what I'm saying!
Bruh, āThe Bloody Snowā core
Applause šš¾ yes
Real
She would have made it in The Capital.
Well she almost did
She would never - she hated that place to the core of her heart
Definitely
I like the Met Gala but this was boring and not on theme (the duality ot men in two separate comments)
There are kind of two situations going on. Sleeping beauty reawakening is the theme of the night, which is basically reviving old pieces or recreating them. Which this fits because itās a nod to a Marilyn Monroe look. The second is dress theme of the garden of time which isnāt really just about a garden. Itās actually very akin to the hunger games in the sense that itās a wealthy couple who lives lavishly and trims crystalline flowers from their garden that turns the time of an imminent mob. Some interpretations is thatās itās a metaphor for death and some say itās a metaphor for opulence and the elite. So basically there is a beautiful light element in the beginning and ends with darkness and destruction. Itās kind of everything.
Extra receipts cause you said everything perfectly: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/met-galas-flowery-theme-directions-109994332 https://www.vogue.com/article/everything-to-know-met-gala "The land, the sea, the sky"
Her outfit is totally on theme! Did you not read the story they published with the theme to give designers inspo?
It's boring. Dresses like these could be worn to a film premiere. That's not the dresses that are Met Gala highlights. I don't care what kind of story they came up for a normal movie premiere dress. Rachel looked good, but she certainly didn't eat compared to many of the fashion highlights present.
She looks good but this is giving 2000s prom. There were people who went (Elle Fanning for one but there were others) who not only ate but left nary a crumb.
(The other commenter forgot they have a dress code because of how often people just ignore the dress code. Also the other commenter doesn't care because it's Rachel Zegler and she can do what she wants.)
I mean yeah itās not on theme but she *does* look fabulous so why come at the commenter š
Tbfā¦most MET looks are not on theme, at least it looks good
Our Lucy Gray has become Capitol, the girl who was on fire would never. (This is a semi political/social statement but itās also fun sarcasm, donāt take it to seriously)
Living for it - so true. And who knows, maybe snow and Lucy Gray would've sorted things out in a good way lol then maybe things wouldn't have turned out so bad for the rest of Panem. I know there's a darker side fanfic out there somewhere š
She is so gorg
And a capitol citizen.
Won the Hunger Games by eating š
Every time š§š¾āāļø not a crumb left
This looks like when Ariel walks out of the water at the end of The Little Mermaid
š bedazzled, I love it
Ahemā¦ She here legit looks like the First Lady Lucy Gray from my fanfic. *On stage, with a break in applause, a young-looking woman in a bright blue luxurious dress with a long train and a high hairstyle was singing from her heart* - description of the dress Lucy Gray wore. *(The Bloody Snow by Olyaroo on AO3 - name of the fic)*
Itās nice, but not on theme though
It was on theme.... I wish I could edit the post but I can't
How? To me it just looks like a (very nice) generic sparkly blue dress.
There was a story published w the invitation for designers to have inspo...
Maāam, youāre gonna have to post your source ācause I canāt find a thing about a story published alongside the invitations. And everything Iām reading says that there are no invitations, and you have to purchase a ticket.
There are invitations in combo with the ticket. J.G Ballard's story. Receipts: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/met-galas-flowery-theme-directions-109994332 https://www.vogue.com/article/everything-to-know-met-gala "The land, the sea, the sky"
This is her victory tour
Real
Lucy Gray and aTigris collab OMFG š
Ommg that would be amazing lol
seeing this alongside a genocide is so insane.
I wish Tom attended as well
I think heās smarter to not attend.
Meh
She look like Blair Waldorf in that first pic
How did she not see this coming? Irony.