Celebrities at the Met Ball seriously tried to show they have a sense of humour
Did you see the pictures from the Met Gala in New York? I mean, bloody hell. They were enough to discredit the whole concept of fun. The theme this year was “Camp: Notes of Fashion”, which most of the photographed celebrities seem to have interpreted as meaning “Daft”. To be fair, I have no idea what my own sartorial take on “Camp” would have been. I’d probably have put on a cravat, but worried it was a bit much.
It wouldn’t have been a bit much. People turned up in the craziest togs imaginable. I think what many of the celebrities were doing was trying to show they have a sense of humour, which in general I welcome. But the lengths they went to to show it betrayed such seriousness in the endeavour, such focused and directed effort, that the joke collapsed under its own weight even if the intricately engineered dresses just about managed not to.
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