View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Daily Front Row (@dailyfrontrow) It might be a little late in the day to enter the discourse around the Met Gala. Reams have already been written, and the internet and Instagram have hit it out of the park with their relentless coverage. But,
Every form and flavour of carefully curated high fashion was amply visible on the Met Gala’s red carpet this year. After repeated viewings of the spectacle and some existential pondering, ANURADHA MAHINDRA, Founder-Editor, Verve, analyses why audiences were left eagerly lapping up every detail on show.
I’ve been desperately searching for my own verdicts, my own judgement, and indulging in some serious existential reflection, over and above all of those that have already been voiced. This mega event — one that has notched up a staggering “916 million total video views” — is it really a good thing or a major badass moment for our new-age, Insta-fed voyeurism?Michaela Coel, co-chair of the Met Gala 2023.
Now, these are heavyweight fabrications of historical importance which, presumably, makes them eligible to be archived in one of the precious glass cases at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Ostensibly priced at 50,000 dollars a pop this year, the celebrities showed up in full support of swelling the coffers of this venerable wing.
I want to see real fashion, something I can borrow from, or aspire to, talk to my mother and daughters about, so I stay up one more night, scrolling till I emerge inundated with more titbits about the art and science of each outfit.
Actor Alia Bhatt’s Cinderella-like ball gown, constructed by the Nepalese-American designer Prabal Gurung’s New York atelier, was made of 1,00,000 hand-beaded pearls. More power to the behind-the-scenes Indian karigars who must have sewn them on, pearl by pearl, possibly burning the midnight oil. And at the other end of the world were 70 seamstresses who worked on over 500 metres of silk chiffon to create Pope’s cape that is mentioned above.
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