The Met Gala theme was both boring and out of touch
NY Post
Anna Wintour took one look at Marie Antoinette and said, “Hold my cake.”
At a moment of widespread protests against the government and trendy calls to “eat the rich,” the Queen of Condé Nast decided the theme of her annual Met Gala should be a short story about wealthy people staving off mobs of plebians.
The lavish Upper East Side bash was practically “The Hunger Games,” but with Kim Kardashian.
On Monday night, the usual parade of celebrities, billionaires, semi-recognizable faces and trashy social media randos ascended the stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and tried not to trip on their outfits.
Mentally, however, everybody stumbled when it came to this year’s dress code: “The Garden of Time” by J.G. Ballard.
The majority of attendees took the extremely boring vines-and-buds route and affixed “florals for spring” frills to their couture frocks and suits, looking like motel shower curtains.
Jessica Simpson’s husband, Eric Johnson, slipped off his wedding ring amid reports that the couple is on the brink of divorce after 10 years.
Denzel Washington had a royal fumble when meeting King Charles III at the “Gladiator II” premiere in London on Wednesday.
Hugh Jackman may not have been a free agent at the start of his alleged romance with Sutton Foster.
Dave Coulier has been diagnosed with stage 3 non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
John Krasinski has been named as 2024’s Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine.
Martha Stewart isn’t a fan of Drew Barrymore’s signature touchy-feely approach to daytime TV.
Kevin Costner has weighed in on the death of John Dutton.
Kevin Costner is going to the train station.
Georgina Cooper, the British supermodel who rose to fame in the 1990s and was known as London’s “original gap-toothed girl,” has died at 46, The Post can confirm.
