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flowersandfashion · 6 months ago

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'what would I wear to the met gala?' I would paint my body like a hyper-realistic stone statue covered in moss. an effigy of the elites, consumed by the time garden as they consumed it. destroyed, decomposing and returning to the earth.

#as soon as I heard that the theme was the garden of time and the 'impermanence of fashion' my brain immediately went “MOSS!”#just like. as a concept. and then I read the short story and thought 'oh fuck yeah moss statues'#it's such a basic idea that I'm surprised no one did it #I think any attempt to criticise overconsumption and elitism at the met gala is inevitably incredibly ironic #but I think there is far more irony to be found in everyone just thinking 'oh a garden? so like flowers. pretty!'#maybe the camera flashes would reflect on everyone's bejewelled flower dresses and light up my stone body. and the monuments in the museum #and for a fleeting moment it would be indistinguishable from the long-vanished flesh of the statues’ originals #met gala #met gala 2024 #the garden of time

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