{"id":1121,"date":"2020-05-04T19:18:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T09:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=172066"},"modified":"2020-11-12T23:06:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T23:06:13","slug":"from-the-steps-of-the-met-what-ill-miss-from-the-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/from-the-steps-of-the-met-what-ill-miss-from-the-met-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Steps Of The Met. What I’ll Miss Most From The Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Met Gala,<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember me? It’s been a while. Exactly one year, in fact. One year since you graced me with your presence – your dramatic, extravagant and oh-so wondrous presence – and how I\u2019ve longed for you. Oh, how I’ve missed you so.<\/p>\n

But this year, sadly, it\u2019s not to be. With your steely but stylish matriarch making the brave but inevitable call to \u201cpostpone you to a later date,\u201d the first Monday in May is not \u201cour day\u201d this year. Like so many other major events around the world canceled due to this insidious Coronavirus, it comes as no surprise that you too have fallen in its wake. So this makes me miss you even more.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll miss Lady Gaga in meters and meters of hot pink Brandon Maxwell taffeta, a bustle so big and platform boots so high she needed numerous aides to usher her in – even pick her up off the floor.<\/a><\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Jared Leto holding Jared Leto in a red diamant\u00e9 encrusted Gucci gown, his prosthetic but handsome head Alessandro Michele\u2019s creepy yet creative ode to the medieval cephalophores he\u2019s so obsessed with.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Kim Kardashian, well, being Kim Kardashian. Ignoring all Met Gala themes but making sure to show off booty, bust and waist – a waist so small it was as if she\u2019d been photoshopped in 2019 (but alas, in real life the incredible waist was real thanks to Mugler and some serious body sculpting). I\u2019ll also miss Mr Kim Kardashian, forever sour by her side<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West attend The 2019 Met Gala Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2019 in New York City. (Photo by John Shearer\/Getty Images for THR)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ll miss Cardi B being the ultimate Met sport in Thom Browne\u2019s unforgettable oxblood red feathered gown that needed an entire entourage just to keep it up.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Madonna making everyone weak at the knees in 2016 in an ass-less, breast-less Givenchy bondage ensemble, then bow down to her in 2018 in a part-gothic, part-ecclesiastical Jean Paul Gaultier gown.<\/p>\n

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But I\u2019ll miss Rihanna challenges Madonna\u2019s holy throne the same year in a pious Pope-like creation by John Galliano for Maison Margiela that made the Vatican quickly race to confession.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll also miss Rihanna flocking to me like a fabulously fashionable Big Bird in Guo Pei\u2019s canary yellow fur and velvet brocade, a train so spectacular it slunk on me with perfection.<\/p>\n

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 04: Rihanna attends the “China: Through The Looking Glass” Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And her Commes des Gar\u00e7on confection in 2017. I think I’ll just miss Rihanna full stop.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss C\u00e9line Dion mistaking 2019\u2019s \u201cCamp\u201d theme for actual camping, thankfully replacing s\u2019mores and socks with Oscar De La Renta fringing and Noel Stewart\u00a0feathers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Katy Perry thinking she was a chandelier, not a chanteuse in 2019, and an angel not attendee in 2018.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss queen of fashion Sarah Jessica Parker regaining her throne – quite literally – in 2018, wearing a real-life Neapolitan nativity scene on her head by Dolce Alta Moda that defied gravity (and traditional transport). I\u2019ll also miss her breathtaking black and white Oscar de la Renta gown in 2014, pure haute perfection.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Blake Lively being a true fashion royal in 2018 in a jewel-encrusted, rich red brocade Versace gown with dramatic train that took 600 hours to make (did someone say Queen?).<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Beyonc\u00e9 arriving in nothing but precariously placed diamonds in 2018, deliciously bootylicious. But I\u2019ll probably miss sister Solange attacking her husband Jay Z in an elevator post-Met Gala 2014 even more (one of the most salacious Met scandals I\u2019ve ever been witness to)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Frances McDormand being the boss she is in Maison Valentino feathers.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss Zendaya forever championing strong women: from Cinderella in a light-up gown by Tommy Hilfiger to Catholicism\u2019s Maid of Orl\u00e9ans, Joan of Arc, in armored Versace.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll miss the one, the only, the Billy Porter in couture so utterly fabulous it makes any red carpet seem rudimentary. Like the time he arrived on foot – the feet of six beautifully brutish, topless men in gold pants and gilt face veils – like a beacon glimmering in the night, the camp-est Pharaoh I ever did see.<\/p>\n

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In truth, I\u2019ll miss it all, so so very much. But as the saying goes, absence makes the heart grow fonder. Today, this platitude couldn’t ring truer, but I know you will be back even more brilliant, more outrageous, more overblown than ever before.<\/p>\n

So until next year dear fashion friend\u2026stay frivolous, fantastical and fabulous. I shall be here waiting. And considering this year\u2019s theme, \u201cAbout Time,\u201d it seems fitting don\u2019t you think?<\/p>\n

Yours truly,<\/span><\/p>\n

The Steps of the MET<\/span><\/p>\n

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