Here Is Every Look From the 2017 Met Gala Celebrating Comme des Garçons/Rei Kawakubo
EntertainmentMore than most Met Galas, the announcement that Rei Kawakubo would be honored this year was met with a bit of dread: the idea of celebrities showing up to fete the queen of avant-garde fashion wearing some basic-ass shit that could have come from a Bebe were the visions of hellfire dancing in our heads. Kawakubo and her profoundly influential label, Comme des Garçons, deserve better than what fans expect to see.
And now, the day of reckoning. Will Comme fans be pleasantly surprised? Will 467 different It Girls wear Dior? What the shit will go down? Follow along as we update this skeptical and possibly lightly buzzed update of everything everyone’s wearing, as they walk down the tan carpet.
This is Carly Steel. It’s 6:09 p.m., and she is the only person who has been photographed by the Associated Press so far. Was she the first person to show up at the Met Gala? Wikipedia says, “Carly Steel is a British television presenter, actress and producer. Steel hosts CBS’s Entertainment Tonight, The Insider and TV Guide Network.” Props???
We’re already off to a wild start: Anna Wintour, grand dame of her own event, is wearing freakin’ CHANEL, and daughter Bee Shaffer is also not wearing Comme, though they both look fabulous as ever (Wintour maybe a little more so, because yes this is a contest). The real winner is Shaffer’s fiance, Francesco Carrozzini, in shocking blue. Love it!
Red is one of the only colors Rei Kawakubo uses consistently, and so here is Helen Lasichanh (with Pharrell, who does not have time for these games) in an official Comme playsuit that eats her arms, effectively forcing her husband to feed her all night. That’s what I call feminism!! Katy Perry is in a custom John Galliano for Margiela homage to a piece Rei has in her archive but looks sort of like Cara Delevingne’s character in Suicide Squad, that movie you fell asleep in last summer. Rose Byrne is wearing… something… it’s extremely pretty… let’s be real, I don’t care. TONIGHT IS ABOUT GETTING WEIRD, PEOPLE.
Aziz Ansari in a tux. You’d think that Claire Danes has definitely been sitting on this Captain Jack Sparrow jawn since 1998, waiting for the right time to whip that shit out and stunt on you fake swashbucklers, but no—it’s a 2017 piece by Monse. Of fucking course Tom Brady is in a shiny suit, which I think is a form of appropriation; Gisele Bundchen is boring the hell out of me, but I hope that peace sign is a subtweet to her husband.
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Model brigade! I got to give it up to Aymeline Valade, because it is easy, I assume, to show up to an event like this in some basic crap (see: Behati Prinsloo and Candice Swanepoel) and just rely on the fact that you look great in everything because you’re a freakin’ model, but she took it to a level of style and is giving me scarab beetle in a 1976 fever dream. Laura Osnes is at the very least giving us a tulle tsunami, which I’ll always appreciate.
Ellie’s boyfriend Ansel Elgort is fully auditioning for The Rat Pack tonight. He’s like “Ayo Frank Sinatra do you need a trance remix of that standard?” Daisy Ridley’s gown is lovely and I am even liking the empire waist, but poor Mindy Kaling’s fringe sequin number is bumming me out, like she’s going to Ansel’s first gig with the Rat Pack. Wendi Deng Murdoch looks like a pineapple via Rosemary’s Baby. Run for your life.
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