2024 Met Gala StyleVisions™️
Hot takes, fashion predictions, couture + moodboards for fashions most anticipated Monday
Have you been hiding under a rock?! Since ‘48 fashions elite has hosted annual Met Galas inviting the industries top tier talent to come up off of their coins and pull a look for the signature red carpet, in the holy name of FASHION. A single ticket is $50k + you have to make it to Anna Wintour’s list to even play in that arena, just so you know how exclusive the event is..
Anyone else wanna know what goes on in those bathrooms?!
It’s become a well anticipated spectacle over the years for the fashion world, and now the entire world.
I remember being in fashion school + skipping any class that opposed Met Monday( sorry mom) so that I can spend my afternoon turned evening munching on snacks, talking shit, and identifying runway looks with my also fashion-obsessed besties. Once upon a time we impatiently waited for red carpet photos to hit the internet, but in 2012 the Met Gala livestream was born— changing everything.
With the popularization of platforms like Tumblr + Pinterest making the process of pulling inspiration easily accessible, it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate those who study the industry + those who form their opinion of said industry through the lens of others. It’s hard to not sound like a fashion elitist, but you know what? Maybe I am. When you pair that with social media, at the click of a button, everyone is a critic. Personal identity is something that I deeply value, so everyone should have their own opinion, but where do we draw the line when the opinion is being spoken as truth, yet not supported by an inkling of research?
I miss the unapologetic commentary of E! Fashion Police, they didn’t hold back. Miss Joan Rivers had her foot on everyone’s neck with her hot takes! No one fears being “worse dressed” anymore, and it shows. We’re also wayyy more sensitive as a society, so everyone is walking on eggshells to keep it real because they don’t want to tussle or be blackballed. I guess it’s easier to be agreeable? I yearn for a new generation of critics to crack down on these looks that hit the carpet, and I nominate myself— a real ass bitch who also happens to be a Sagittarius! Let’s take it up a notch + review collections too, ‘cause I’ve seen some shit… like a gigantic jar of peanut butter with a snatched face stroll down a couture show runway.
What do you think?
The Met Gala is one of those events where you have to research the theme first and foremost to understand and form an opinion on what you’re actually seeing. Some looks can beautifully compliment its wearer, but there’s always that one question: Is it appropriate for the event tho’? This applies to most red carpets events. Styling 101 is reading the room. A celebrity stylist isn’t going to request the same looks for the MTV Awards as they would the Golden Globes. What makes the Met Gala different, though, is its alternating theme, complimenting the fashion exhibition each year. The 2024 Costume Institute’s exhibition for the Met Museum is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”, displaying some of the most delicate and intricate pieces that have been sitting in the designers’ archive for decades— I even read on Vogue that’s there a ball gown from 1877. Anytime I think about old ass threads I think mothballs, but that’s just me. If you spy Diptyque candles around, you know why!
Though the exhibitions is “Sleeping Beauties”, the red carpet dress code is The Garden of Time, inspired by a short story penned by J.G. Ballard. It makes perfect sense that we have a garden theme in the midst of a nature-charged Taurus season plus Venus, the planet of beauty, fashion, art is also in Taurus. Read more about it’s influence here:
