The MET gala red carpet: veni, vidi, vici

And it’s a wrap. Punk: from Chaos to Couture opened on Monday.

One of the less exhilarating live red carpet with Hilary Rhoda who had the power of making us all miss E! Entertainment.

5 dont’s for a live red carpet interview 

1. “Did you have a punk phase?” the model kept asking as a machine to everybody. Thank God she was saved interviewing the Queen of Punk [1] 

2. “You are British” the beautiful Wintour figurine announced to Bez Lurhmann and wife to which gaffe (in her Red Carpet Memo: if a person has an accent she must be British) they brilliantly replied ”we were British at one point, we are actually from Australia”.

3. Not happy she insisted: “what does Gatsby have anything to do with Punk?” ________________ no pulse

4. “So you are all dressed Alexander Wang” to a pack of 4 gorgeous women wearing Balenciaga. (Red Carpet Memo: when you see a designer, you might have worked for him, acknowledge) Maybe in her mind she wanted to show she had studied for the part. And, no: she got scolded by Julianne Moore who stood 2 inches from her face and spelled: “YES, BALENCIAGA”

5. We all saw the Queen of Punk [1] being cut off by the interviewer, who, also, got totally ignored the newly acclaimed Met Gala Queen [2] arriving un-fashionably late to own the stairs for herself, her mane and her tail.

best dressed

Sipping coffee through the expected rivers of press, opinions, pictures, comparisons, blogs, tweets, we have made up our minds about he event.

Enjoy our ‘the best dressed list’.

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SJP in handpainted Giles Deacon, Phillip Treacy headdress and custom Louboutins

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Florence Welch in Givenchy

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Madonna in custom Givenchy

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Grimes in Chanel

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Emma Watson in Prabal Gurung

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TTH in Thom Browne

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Linda in Marchesa

BONUS: an open letter to a designer who aced the record of dresses for the evening. With 13 celebrities on his tab, Mr. I-design-for-Givenchy-and-I-am-friends-with-her-future-husband [3] might have had too much to think about and somehow got side tracked. Or, simply, he had too much leftover fabric [rolls]. 

"Caro [3],

did you really have to dig yourself the big hole by admitting her + her baby + her army bump [4] were, all together, the most beautiful pregnant woman you ever dressed in your career?

There’s a difference between reality and denial and it hits when the Devil who wears Prada [5] deletes your VIP reality show girl out of the picture leaving prince charming with just one eerie gloved flowery hand hanging on dapper rapper.

Your truly,

us + an image of a ‘beautifully dressed pregnant woman’

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Vanessa Traina Snow in Balenciaga

[1] Vivienne Westwood

[2] Beyonce

[3] Riccardo Tisci

[4] Kimembryo

[5] Anna Wintour

a look back at the past: when media were mass, not social

It was the 1926 when society was dichotomized by F. Scott Fitzgerald between who goes to Palm Beach and who goes to the French Riviera.  Then 50 years later, the Deauville American Film Festival brought red carpet frenzy to the coasts of Normandie. Hollywood stars and their entourage flew over the ocean to be received with red carpet treatment, by paparazzi and accolades of screaming and ecstatic fans. 

Maybe it all looked like what now could be Sundance?

Point is: a then-alive and camera-shy Andy Warhol was photographed by British photog Steve Wood. No journalist considered news-worthy interviewing the artist at a film festival and images were never used. They only came out 20 ears later. (the whole article on Interview Magazine)

A scenario impossible to think of in today’s media state-of-the-union, when anyone would have stolen a snap shot of Andy and Instagrammed, tweeted or posted on Facebook. Even if was only a glance or a blurred picture. Then the wave of bloggers and social media addicted would have made it imperative for a journalist to interview him. 

So, is it the artist that makes the news or the street scene and social media sharing that makes the news worthy?

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cecilialj:

By the end of the following two days, I should be able to say that I’ve been to most of the historical sites in the great American city called Boston. Am I excited? I guess, beside the fact that my day started at 4:15 in the morning. But I have a feeling that this trip is adding to the world suck…