Next May 5, the New York Metropolitan Museum It will be the scenario of one of the most prestigious fashion events: The Met Gala 2025. Under the theme “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, this edition promises to gather the most select of entertainment, sport and culture, and Great Latin presence is expected.
More than a decade has passed, but surely it is still The most remembered controversy of the Met Gala. At the end of the dinner of 2014, Beyoncé, her husband Jay-Z and her sister Solange They went to a party at The Standard when the cameras of one of the elevators recorded A fight between Solange and Jay-Z. Before the impassive look of Beyoncé her sister rebuked her husband to later start hit and kick himuntil one of the bodyguards stopped her. A few days later they issued a statement that explained that they had resolved the conflict: “Jay and Solange assume, each, their share of responsibility For what happened. Both recognize their role in this private matter that has been made public. Both have apologized and move on like a united family. ” An infidelity by the rapper, something to which the own Beyoncé gave credit in several of the songs he wrote in the following years.
The 2009 exhibition was dedicated to dialogue between designers and modelsto his role as muses. And few relationships in this regard have been as emblematic as the ones he maintained Azzedine Alaïa With the ‘tops’. That is why he surprised that the Tunisian was barely represented: Only one dress appeared And not even physical, but In a photograph of Gilles Bensimon. When the designer learned about the deaire, he asked her friends who did not attend the ceremonyso so much Naomi Campbell as Stephanie Seymour They left the Almighty Anna Wintour. On the day of the event the journalist Cathy Horkn spoke with him and, as he published then in The New York Times“He did not blame the omission of the chief commissioner of MET’s costumes, Harold Koda, but to Anna Wintoureditor chief of Voguewho organizes the party. ‘It has too much power over this museum’said. Alaïa has had very little presence in Vogue in the last 15 years. ”
The vetoes of the boss. The mystique around how it is elaborated The guest list The coveted event has filled gigabytes and gigas of conversations and articles on the web. As Alaïa pointed out, Anna Wintour has the last word and many have complained about having been vetoed from the appointment. The stylist Rachel Zoe told for example that she lost her entry by defending in an interview that was more influential than Wintour herself, because her work affected the careers of celebrities more than the fact of appearing in Vogue. Anyway, The only veto really confirmed by the editor is the one that imposed Donald Trump. He said it during an appearance in The Late Late Show with James Corden in 2018. Although the president had been common in this event since the 1980s, It has not reappeared since 2012.
Own Kim Kardashian He complained for years of not being invited to the elitist event, until a 2013 wssourour claudicó. Since that first appearance, his arrival on the carpet has become a reason for controversy year after year. In 2013, pregnant with her daughter North West, He wore a design by Riccardo Tisci for Givenchy of a floral print that caused him to lift like meme of the night. Internet users compared it to a sofa and the star of realities He did not take it well and cried on the way home. He defended years after he body-shaming what suffered During his pregnancy “today he would not be accepted.” We will never know because for their two minor children, Chicago (2018) and Psalm (2019), resorted to rental bellies. What we do know is that the founder of Skims has made her body a gadget to generate headlines. In the 2022 edition, the Marilyn Monroe museum dress and sharing that he had lost seven kilos in three weeks for this (something that generated controversy due to the dangers that he can represent for health). Others argue that the example is an exaltation of a little healthy relationship with the body before millions of followers. She defended himself in the magazine Allure: “If I was starving and I did it very unhealthy, I would say that, of course, it is not a good message. But I had a nutritionist, I had a coach. I have never drunk so much water in my life. I do not see criticisms of other people who lost for papers; They are considered geniuses for their trade. ”He should not have left so badly when in 2024 he resorted to the appeal to oppress his body for a photo with a corset, betting again on the epic of suffering to be the most photographed and controversial guest of the night. His design was the work of John Galliano, who looking for him or does not appear linked to several controversies of the MET.
The 1996 edition was dedicated to the figure of Christian Dior and the conglomerate owner of the firm, LVMH, sponsored the evening. It was decided that The Honor GuestPrincess Diana de Waleswore the first couture creation of the designer of the moment, John Gallianojust signed by the house. The British devised for the royal A midnight dress cut to bies that she completed with pearls and sapphires. But perhaps it was because of the tiredness of the Jet Lag or because the event bored him, Lady Di posed for photographers and vanished. “Some wondered if he had fled because he was ashamed of his appearance: The dress had been considered a fiasco”, He states Dana Thomas In his book Gods and kings. The journalist also echoes the reviews that she received in the British press: “They were horrified that the mother of her future king was, as Louisa Young wrote in The Guardian, ‘Walking through the Costume Institute dance in nightgown’. He Daily Mail He agreed: ‘The problem, and there is no delicate way of saying this, is … He did not carry a bra (…). And a woman with Diana’s figure needs more support. And it is an inevitable fact that this type of dress is better for those who have just left adolescence. ”Years later Galliano himself told in the documentary In Vogue: The 90s that actually The design was conceived with a corset below that at the last moment Lady Di decided to eliminate. “I just remember her coming out of the car,” explained the creative in the documentary, “I couldn’t believe that the corset had started. I didn’t want to use corset. He felt so released. The corset had ripped off and the dress was much more sensual. ”
Nakedness? It depends on who. It depends on who decides bet on transparencies And how to do it. Like any aesthetics -centered public walk, the covers of the MET gala have a blushing history of misogyny. Especially evident when those who walk through the red carpet are light women of clothing. All correct if they are attractive celebrities and canonical measures such as models Kendall Jenner (from the pearl in 2017) or Emily Ratajkowski (in any of his appearances) or the singer Beyoncé (With transparent Givenchy in 2015). The thing changes if it breaks with the masculine look on female sexuality or if the one that shows any intimate part of her body is a 58 -year -old woman. As Madonna a 2016when it appeared In all ‘worse dressed’ lists for your choicea Tisci design for Givenchy Black with straps and transparencies. He dispatched criticism with a message: “My dress was a political and also fashionable statement. The fact that people believe that a woman has no right to express their sexuality and be daring after a certain age It is proof that we still live in an age and sexist society. ”
The imperialist vision on other regions of the planet has been frequent at the MET gala, practically since its inception. In the eighties the exhibition was already dedicated to Chi’ng Chinese Dynasty Dresses or the clothing in India at the time of the British colonialism and the ‘east visions in the western dress’ starred in the sample in 1994. But sensitivity in 2015 had evolved and many They did not understand some bets To honor the exhibition of that year, ‘China: through the mirror’. There were several celebrities who pulled clichés and exploited stereotypes in their attire, which did not like in the global forum which is the Internet. That night the red carpet embodied the institutionalized racism In the Japanese Kimono of Lady Gagathe Chinese woman’s bag of Dakota Johnsonthe red satin robe of Karolina Kurkova or the headdress that Phillip Treacy designed to Sarah Jessica Parkerinspired by the ‘Dragon Woman’ that sexualizes Chinese women.
Nor did he like some sectors of the Catholic church The use that was given to religious iconography at the inauguration of the sample ‘Heavenly bodies: fashion and Catholic imagination’ In 2018. Although they had given dozens of papal clothing from the Vatican, they did not commune with the guests to use those references in their ‘looks‘. It hurt that the singer Rihanna It will be crowned with a papal machine gun In his styling, obviously designed by John Galliano.
The debate on whether it is necessary 2023 editiondedicated to the figure of Karl Lagerfeld. The famous designer had earned an honor position as a broadcast of scandalous messages and for his opinions at least controversial about all kinds of issues. Famous was his fat man, but also his vision expires on the industry, as when after the outbreak of the #MeToo movement between the models snapped that “if you do not want them to lower your pants, do not take a model.” He took advantage of his most insubstantial statement to launch darts to his enemies. Like when talking about tattoos, he said they seemed horrible because they were “how to live forever in a Pucci dress.” That is why perhaps, to avoid positioning yourself on your figure on the red carpet, The smartest was Doja Cat that was visited from her kitty choupette And he just answered with meowders any question of the reporters.
