It's called "fashion's biggest night out" for a reason...yet some looks were anything but.
The Met Gala is one of the most-watched fashion events of the year and, this year, it celebrates the opening of the Costume Institute's exhibition, "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between" (think: sculptural garments with larger-than-life silhouettes).
So why is it that some stars (namely supermodels) decided to make their way up the 150-foot-long, off-white carpet in anything but a big, bold, avant-garde black-tie ensemble? Good question.
If you aren't arriving to the Met in anything other than wearable art, you're missing the point of the evening.
The first Monday in May has come and gone and like every year, we're left confused by those who hit the Met steps in "pretty" dresses. How do you make an impact on the most daring red carpet of the year by doing so? You don't.
It's especially disappointing from models like Miranda Kerr, Joan Smalls and Gisele Bündchen when they're constantly being dressed—whether for a cover shoot or runway show—in crazy-interesting garments. Their job is to wear incredible, boundary-pushing clothing yet on, arguably, the most important event of the year, they cop out in their usual body-hugging attire (or in Miranda's case, a ladylike silhouette).
Even if you didn't "get" or love what celebs like Rihanna, Katy Perry or Tracee Ellis Ross wore, their looks probably got you talking. And isn't that the point? (Yes, that is the point.) Met Gala garments should start discussions, provoke questions, make you think in general about its construction and its purpose. And for those reasons, those three stars really did hit it out of the park with their garments.
Creativity is truly an odd thing to judge. And while, of course, we were all in front of our TVs last night doing our best Miranda Priestly impressions, recognize that months of planning and collaborating went into each and every look, and everyone really did look amazing last night. End rant.
Now take a scroll through our top examples of who came to play in the name of art and who came to just look pretty.
Catch our drift?
There's always next year.