True traditions must always be respected. Said banal popular, but for many a real lifestyle … In these days we were all ready for the most iconic and extravagant fashion event of the year: The Met Gala.
Every first Monday of May, famous international stars perform in all their uniqueness at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The Met Gala has become a real annual fashion celebration, but above all a fundraiser for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum which with the 2019 edition reaches the record sum of 15 million dollars.
Needless to say, this year’s Gala was postponed due to COVID-19. However, nothing prevents us from going back and retracing the more particular looks that kept us glued to the screen.
Let’s go back in time. We will be immediately on the 2019 red carpet with the theme: Camp: Notes on Fashion. Dressing in camp style means being free to express yourself, and these days is a great social message.
All that remains is to make way for sequins, extreme outfits with great trainings and vibrant colors, which give life to a red carpet where everything is possible and nothing is trivial.
Emily Ratajkowski
Let’s start with a bang. Emily Ratajkowski does not need big presentations because in one way or another everyone is well aware of it (even if in most cases not really dressed).
Even at Met 2019 he had no intention of covering himself too much and parading in all his beauty with a Peter Dundas dress, the more I see that I don’t see, totally covered with sequins and silver paillettes. A circle with two large white wings on the sides make it fly directly into the world of fairy tales, although in reality the fairies of the stories I read as a child I did not remember exactly like that.
The fact is that with its look it makes a sensation even now and once again it prints the image of its breathtaking body in everyone’s mind.
Katy Perry
Katy Perry ‘s interpretation still remains, after a year, one of the most discussed and original to have paraded on the famous red carpet. A human candlestick first, and a giant hamburger then, all strictly by Moschino. Surely the pop-star still attracts our eyes and is hardly forgotten.
Jared Leto
Another outfit that I want to propose is that of Jared Leto inspired by an unforgettable concept of the creative director of Gucci. Alessandro Michele on the Gucci 2018 catwalk shows model shows that exhibit, as a normal accessory, the reproduction of their head. So Jered thought well that her sparkling red sequined long dress was not flashy enough and combined it with the reproduction of his face elegantly gripped as a common accessory.
Ezra Miller
At this point we would have to say down the mask! More than for the Burberry pinstripe suit embellished by the shiny corset at the waist, Ezra Miller amazes everyone for the make up. A surrealist outfit with attention to the smallest details: from white enamel nails to very make-up eyes and repeatedly drawn on the star’s face. If you feel fixed, don’t worry, maybe that’s what the actor wanted.
Cara Delevingne
Cara Delevingne, wearing a Dior outfit, interpreted the theme of the event becoming a spokesman for the LGBT community in an absolutely ironic way. The rainbow becomes a dress, and on the head a hat with bananas, mouths and fried eggs certainly does not go unnoticed. A not really comfortable headgear, but which certainly in its extravagance launches a funny and important message at the same time.
Naomi Campbell
How can we forget the panther of the Naomi Campbell catwalks … At Met 2019 she made her name stand out with her all-pink Valentino dress. Proud look that would intimidate anyone, puts everyone back in his place in the blink of an eye. Woe to think it is too low-cut, or that the gap is too deep. At the Met Gala 2019 there was no room for simplicity and banality. This the model knows well.
Let’s go back to the real world, but here we can discover the theme of the Met Gala 2020. About Time: Fashion and Duration is the title of this year’s event, but what should we expect then?
The inspiration for the theme comes from Virgina Woolf and twentieth-century philosopher Henri Bergson. The exhibition will tell women’s fashion in a historical timeline that starts around 1870 going up to the present day.
To be specific, there is a particular image that inspired the theme and that of Orlando. 1992 film directed by Sally Porter based on the novel of the same name by Virgina Woolf.
The protagonist of the film set in the late 16th century, receiving the order from Queen Elizabeth I of England orders him never to grow old, begins a series of adventures through centuries of English history collecting extraordinary experiences, including a change of sex.
What if these are the premises we will still be here to talk about the Met Gala 2020 as soon as it will be possible to organize the event again!
In the meantime, take a look at the other looks of the 2019 Gala that will make them talk a lot more and for another dive into the past, return to Milan Design Week 2019!
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