Met gala party and the rest if the world

[Olliphant]

I looked at the photos of the 'celebs' attending the Met gala party, obscene amounts of money spent on truly bonkers outfits, all over the top, someone in a suit of armour....kids of famous parents who never had to achieve anything ..... and then seeing Emma Raducanu had been invited.... it felt like I was watching the Hunger Games. Thinking of the poor people in Afghanistan, the desperate migration from Africa to Europe, the people risking their and their kids lives to get to the UK...thinking of America where some people are so poor they can't afford health care. Usually I'm all for a party but honestly, it makes me understand the French revolution.

Because some people risk their children’s lives the rest of the world should not be allowed to have fun?

YANBU. It reminds me of playing the violin on the deck of the Titanic. It gives the impression that these inanities have no clue about what's going on in the world and think that everything revolves around them. If only they would use their money and influence to do good - planting trees in the desert, for example, or sponsoring teachers or doctors in Africa. Maybe they do, without shouting about it, but mostly they just come across as vain and "look at me".

*I got a 3-pack of Trebor mints in Iceland this morning.

On reflection, I should have sent that quid to Afghanistan; I'm just as bad as that lot. I shall check my privilege*

Send them the mints

I understand what you mean about grotesque displays of wealth, but even without the met gala Kim Kardashian is shockingly rich. Refusing them a party where they can dress like clowns wouldn’t suddenly inspire them to scatter their money amongst the poor and needy.

You pay £30k a ticket for worldwide exposure via the red carpet photos. End of

It's a bit of fun. Not everywhere has to be miserable like on mumsnet😁

@HeddaGarbled

It does seem like the sort of events pictured in dystopian fiction signifying degenerate societies just before they got what was coming to them.

Yes! This is what I am trying to say....and like the Romans before they lost power, or the French before they were beheaded.

Special shout out to cemodey gold from pp. Ha!

I'm really into fashion and usually love seeing the outfits at the Met Gala but I get what you mean op. There's a big shift coming, people have been through a lot and I think we're going to see a new down to earth and simple living generation coming up behind us. It all seemed so old fashioned! Many of the young people I know under 20 are all so into less make up and fast fashion, environmental issues, sustainability etc, that the excesses of the Met are suddenly out of touch.

Knittingupastorm
Conde Nast have already stated they didn’t give AOC and her boyfriend freebie tickets so someone paid $75k for their seats.
Also me Bill de Bacgio, his wife and son were also there and they weren’t given freebies either so who paid $105k for their tickets?

Bill de Blasio

All of these over the top award shows are bullshit, not just this one and not just because the world is a crappy place..

You pay £30k a ticket for worldwide exposure via the red carpet photos. End of

In media terms its money well spent, the media lap it up

@ConstanceGracy

All of these over the top award shows are bullshit, not just this one and not just because the world is a crappy place..

It is not an award show. It is a gala where the rich and not so rich political figures get to hob knob with each other.

YANBU. It all seems so crass and ludicrous but cancelling it would change none of the terrible situations you mention.

I’ve live in a shit HA flat on a low income and haven’t been on holiday for 7 years. I could post on loads of threads suggesting that pp‘s downsize, cancel their holidays and stop buying and doing nice stuff because I can’t afford it and think it’s distasteful that they’re having a good time because I’m having a shit one. It would help no one. It makes my situation no better and would stop others who could be having a nice time from going ahead and having one.

There are long-standing and ongoing humanitarian crises in Yemen, Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan, Ethopia, Democratic Republic of Congo, North East Nigeria, Venezuela, Central Sahel Africa and Iraq, North Korea and China. If the Met Gala was cancelled out of respect for the immense suffering all the various conflicts are wreaking on innocent lives then you’d have to suspend every big event indefinitely because grimly none of these are likely to be resolved any time soon. I agree though it’s hard to justify and see such wanton excess and indulgence when others are fighting for survival .

hob knob

Perfect malapropism 😃

The tables tend to be bought by the fashion houses ie Chanel, Dior to which they invite chosen celebrities to wear outrageously designed costumes, because the MET ball is about design / art, hence the themes.

Lots of clothes worn are Vintage like Chanel from 2015 for example or brand new out there designs.

Lewis Hamilton paid for a table and asked Anna Wintour if he could invite new designers to join him that he wanted to showcase.

Anna Wintour invited Emma and she sat at the Chanel table which is why she was decked in Chanel.

I love it because it's colourful and bonkers.

I saw Tom Daley in the background of a photo but they only show us those dressed in the most outrageous clothes. Or Emma R because she's a bit fabulous, young and what a brilliant way to meet a lot of interesting people in one go. I hope lots of Brits there looked after her and made her night extra special.

or sponsoring teachers or doctors in Africa

Good god! I’d rather a hundred solid gold suits of armour on a beige carpet than any hand-wringing white saviour crap. Why should people studying and training at universities in African countries want American sponsorship???

I thought Kim K looked her best ever.
I guess you didn't see her in a leather gimp suit for Kanye's recent birthday party.
Shamelessly attention seeking.

Emma Raducanu was beautiful radiant and natural.

YABU @Olliphant. The Met Gala is no more obscene than Halloween.

@Proudboomer

Knittingupastorm Conde Nast have already stated they didn’t give AOC and her boyfriend freebie tickets so someone paid $75k for their seats. Also me Bill de Bacgio, his wife and son were also there and they weren’t given freebies either so who paid $105k for their tickets?

The Met have said they were there as guests of the museum. So it sounds like they were given free tickets, and that won’t have cost the museum $35k a ticket.

OP

Are you aware what the Met is? It is Metropolitan Museum of ART The Gala (or ball) is specifically in relation to the Costume institute of this museum and is a fund raiser event geared also to creating awareness of the museum. The OTT outfits is part of the event.

I suppose you will go down to ascot to protest on ladies day? Go protest for every Halloween party where people decorate frivolously and mow families spend money money on costumes?

It's basically a wearable art/fancy dress party for rich and famous people who are usually borrowing the costumes.

It may not be your thing, it's not really mine, but as acts of moral turpitude go, I can think of much worse. It's just another red carpet event.

And I know being "attention seeking" is the worst depravity on MN, especially for women, but if this is what it took you to realise that that Kim K likes the spotlight, be grateful you missed the last 15 years of it.

I absolutely love high fashion, but I do find the met gala pretty distasteful. I understand the point that them having no fun isn’t going to make my life, or anyone else’s better. But I just get a instinctually turned off by it now, and have for a few years.

Haven’t seen any of the pictures but Emma Raducanu seems so lovely and sensible I hope she doesn’t get sucked into that weird world.

Suzanne Collins is such an amazing genius I think, the hunger games has so many layers.