Last night was the 2026 Met Gala where out-of-touch elites get to show off their bizarre fashion choices, often with hidden messaging for us peons to ponder. This year’s theme was “Costume Art” with the dress code of “Fashion Is Art.”
Don’t understand it? No one does. We’re not supposed to. It is just supposed to make them feel better than you. You don’t get to understand high fashion. You just have to be subjected to it and, ideally, envy all of them.
The Weird
There are so many choices to highlight and mock this year it is hard to know where to start, but we begin with 67-year-old Madonna, who ditched her signature blonde curls and lingerie in favor of a more gothic, witchy-shipwrecked look.
Hey, at least she has clothes on! The ship on her head had a scarf so long it needed its own payroll. Seven people carried it. Seven! She was also carrying a horn instrument for some reason. Again, it’s not for you to understand. It’s just to confuse you and to make you feel dumb because you don’t get it because you’re not Madonna or Anna Wintour.
Then, there was model Heidi Klum, who, of course, loves a good costume. Her look was apparently inspired by the 1846 sculpture “Veiled Vestal.” She told Vogue that after getting inspired by the statue, she wanted “to become her.” And so she transformed herself into a living stone sculpture.
“I look hard, but I’m soft,” she told the mag. “It’s foam and latex.”
The Worst
Next, let’s get to the absolute worst. Just when you think Lena Dunham cannot get any homelier, she shows up at the Met Gala, after a seven year absence from the public eye, completely eyebrow-less.
She embraced this year’s theme in the form of a red feathered and sequined Valentino gown and, again, chose to shave off her eyebrows. That looks good on literally no one. Stop doing that, women of America. She looked like a stuffed sausage in the dress. It was just so unflattering. A corpulent lady can look decent. It is not like that is not possible. She just chose to assault us visually with this gown.
Another one of the most criticized looks of the night was former astronaut Katy Perry due to her rather unconventional ensemble, though it was kind of a rip off of Kim Kardashian’s masked number from a few years ago.
She was sporting a white Stella McCartney gown with a long train, a full face metal mask, and matching white gloves. The gloves had six fingers. Were they a nod to her recent trip to outer space? Did she see aliens during her 12-minute trip up and back down?
Per People magazine, the mask was a nod to Perry’s public performance as art and was designed to be “a literal and symbolic reflection that invites the observer to consider that their perception of others can mirror their own internal world, and conversely mask truth.”
It is a long way of saying: ‘Stop writing mean things about me. I’m an absolutely lovely person, and I don’t want to be bullied for allegedly shoving my vag in some unsuspecting young woman’s face to the point where the woman vomited and a criminal investigation into me is now underway in Australia. It’s your issues reflecting on you from my mask.’
Then, there was Hunter Schafer, a 27-year-old man dressing up as a woman for the red carpet. Schafer is a ‘trans’ actor on the HBO show Euphoria. He showed in a Prada gown – inspired by a painting of a 9-year-old girl?! Why is a man showing up to the Met gala depicting a child?
Lauren Sánchez Bezos, as an honorary chair of this event, do you have a problem with this? Anna Wintour, care to comment? Is the exploitation of little girls by grown ass men art to you? What part of high fashion are we not getting here? We don’t want any part of it.
There were also the moments that we were just supposed to witness and not say anything about, but I am here to say something. This is Aaron Rose Philip.
Philip was heralded as “making history” at the Met Gala for being – and this is not a joke – the first African-American transgender model with cerebral palsy to attend the event. The 25 year old was born in Antigua and raised in the U.S. He was signed by Elite Model Management in 2018 and has been featured on the cover of Vogue.
Billboard Chris, who stands up to trans-mania like nobody else, said it best on X. “The trans industry never found a person they won’t use and abuse for profit and propaganda,” he wrote. “They’ll even give cross-sex hormones to a quadriplegic with cerebral palsy.”
The Boring
And then there were the bores. Nicole Kidman showed up in all red sequins Chanel gown with a lot of feathers like Lena Dunham, expect she looked stunning because she is Nicole Kidman. I loved the dress, but I don’t know that it matched the “Fashion Is Art” theme. It didn’t look like art to me; it just look like a dress that she looked amazing in.
Same for Margot Robbie. It was boring. Her hair was boring; her dress was boring; her pose was boring. And that was unfortunate because she too can look stunning. Zoe Kravitz was wearing some black lace number. Again, boring, boring, boring. I didn’t find it interesting at all. It looked like something I would put on for Halloween to hand out candy to kids.
Also in the ‘boring’ category? Lauren Sánchez Bezos. I have to be honest, I expected more from her. I thought she would at least give us some sort of big fashion statement. No, her gown could have been worn anywhere. It was so boring.
Sure, she made sure to show up to show off her massive bust and ass. She is very, very proud of her massive fake bust. It is not like it is something we all can’t have. Just go to a plastic surgeon and you too can have her size triple-whatever breasts. It is not hard, but she seemed to be desperately trying to look like a Kardashian.
The problem is that she doesn’t look as good. She is so pulled and prodded she looks, as my husband Doug said, an alien. I mean, I guess that is perfect given what she did with outer space.
Sanchez has never publicly confirmed whether she has undergone any procedure, and she doesn’t have to. Technically, it is not any of our business. But we are allowed to speculate, as one X user did when they joked she has more plastic in her face than a Tupperware factory. That’s how it looks to me, too. It is just too much.
The Unexpected Best
Speaking of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, four of them attended and, I have to tell you, I thought they looked great. Kendall Jenner – she’s the supermodel – wore a dress that had a long train that transformed into enormous wings when she lifted it. This woman looks great in anything, but I thought the fashion was gorgeous.
Kim Kardashian had on an armor-like orange number. Her body looked great. Her hair looked great. She looked great.
And Kylie Jenner looked awesome too. It was almost like the gown was falling off of her. It was kind of sensual but not inappropriate, which is, for the Kardashians, a big win.
I would definitely put all three of them on my best dressed list, and Kris Jenner looked good too. I liked her outfit. For once, I’m giving a thumbs up to the Kardashian-Jenner fam.
Blake Lively Returns
Last but not least, Blake Lively made her first Met Gala appearance since 2022 on the same day she announced the settlement in her lawsuit against Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer studios, his studios.
Lively told Vogue: “I haven’t been to the Met since giving birth to my fourth child. Every year I am a different version of myself than the last, so to be able to stand in the version of myself that I am today – and all the experiences I’ve had – in strength and confidence is important to me.”
Who talks like that? These are lies. No one who actually feels strong and confident talks about themselves like that. She is just trying to give you the adjectives she wants you to repeat about her because she is none of those things. If somebody is telling you the adjectives they are, it is an ultimate tell that they don’t feel those things about themselves.
She does not feel strong, she feels weak. She does not feel confident, she suffers from a lack of confidence. That seems very obvious because she is a bully, and that is how all bullies are.
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