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the theme is karl lagerfeld, a fashion designer who was the director for chanel. he was a pretty shitty person lmaoooo. he has a famous super spoiled cat and that’s what the fursuit is of
this feels like going to an generations themed party (70s, 80s, 90s, etc) and then just dressing up as a weird lamp from that time period.
sure, you fit the theme, but you're fucking scaring everyone. put the lava lamp costume away.
#I think if someone ever showed me a fursuit of my cat I'd kill them#one of my friends has an introject of my cat and that's fine by me#but a tangible item intentionally made without my consent of my cat's likeness is BAFFLING#ftr my cats are genuinely perfect animals it's just this is Strange#we need funnier Met Gala themes#personal pig#stunfiskz
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MET GALA: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
The Met gala is my favourite event of the year. It all started in 1948 and was founded by a publicist named Eleanor Lambert. All the benefits were destined to the conservation of the Metropolitan Museum of New York. Each gala is full of actors, models, designers, singers... artists of all types. They all come together to celebrate and raise money for MET and to celebrate the opening of the exhibition.
That exhibition is what decides the theme of the gala. Previous themes were: China through the Looking Glass, Manus x Machina, Punk to Chaos and last year’s one; Heavenly Bodies; Fashion and the catholic Imagination
Anna Wintour, Vogue’s editor in chief and fashion’s industry most powerful woman is the organizer and the brain behind the gala, but she always chooses someone (most of the times that someone is a celebrity/designer/anyone influential) that will co-host it. Some co-hosts in the past were Rihanna, Taylor Swift or Beyoncé.
This year Mrs Wintour overcame herself. She’s partnering with Serena Williams. Lady Gaga, Harry Styles and Alessandro Michele (yes, Gucci’s creative director).
Although it is a bizarre combination, it totally makes sense. Lady Gaga is known for her crazy style, Alessandro Michele is the father of the eccentricity and Harry Styles his muse, and finally Serena Williams. I can’t really understand why she’s part of the hosting theme, but she’s Serena Williams so whatever.
When is the Met Gala? The first monday in May. A documentary with that name was released a couple of years ago and its absolutely stunning. It explains how everything is organised and shows you the whole process of it.
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And you must be wondering, what’s this years theme? The title of the exhibition is simply: “Camp: Notes on Fashion”
Camp is an essay written by Susan Sontag in 1964. The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. The term is nowadays used to describe something that is flamboyant or kitsch. “Camp is esoteric,” Sontag explains, “something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques… I am strongly drawn to Camp, and almost as strongly offended by it.”
She describes camp style as enjoyment and not judgement. Basically, its all about having fun. (I can totally understand why Anna chose Michele or Lady Gaga to host this).
And what do you have to do to attend the gala? Well, its not something easy. Anna Wintour doesnt want everyone to be there; actually, shes pretty strict with the guest list. First, you need to be the muse of a designer. They have to personally invite you and pay for your ticket, (which is usually around 2000$). So each year we see truly iconic duos that combine fashion and other industries like music or cinema, like my favourite from last year, when the great Frances McDormand showed up with my idol, Valentino’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli.
Or Alessandro Michele, who dressed Lana del Rey and Jared Leto, and provided us with one of fashions most icnonic moments.
PREVIOUS MET GALA’S BEST LOOKS
Rihanna in 2015 “China through the Looking Glass”
Alexa Chung, 2016 in “Manus Ex Machina”
Sienna Miller and Cara Delevingne 2013, “Punk: Chaos to Couture”
Lily Collins, 2018 “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination”
Grace Hartzel, 2017 “Rei Kawakubo”
Justin Bieber and Olivier Rousteing, 2015 “China Through the Looking Glass”
Anna Wintour, 2003 “ Goddess: The Classical Mode”
Zayn Malik, 2016 “Manus X Machina”
Sarah Jessica Parker, 2015 “China through the Looking Glass”
Lily Rose Depp, 2016 “Manus X Machina”
WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE ON THE RED CARPET
As this year’s theme is all about extravagance, brands like Valentino, Schiaparelli or Gucci will likely own the red carpet. I really hope that the guests follow the theme, as it is actually a really fun and easy one. If I were to attend the gala I would definitely love to wear Valentino Couture.
The fabrics used, volumes and ruffles scream camp.
Sienna Miller, Chloe Sevigny, Margot Robbie or Diane Kruger, who attend the gala every year would look absolutely stunning in one of these. Also, the makeup is one of the most genius things Ive ever seen.
SCHIAPARELLI COUTURE
Schiaparelli is probably one of the craziest, coolest brands right now. All of the couture shows are filled with surrealism, colours, patterns, sequins, feathers... all of it combined, and somehow they make it work. It would be awesome to see one of these stunning masks on someone like Rihanna or Frances Mcdormand.
VIKTOR AND ROLF COUTURE
If Im honest, I’m not a big fan of Viktor and Rolf, but they actually fit the theme so well. The irony, pomposity and that kitsch look would be very refreshing to see. I love how they use the clothes to send a message, it makes it funnier and gives it a chilidish look. Lady Gaga or Beyoncé would look awesome in one of those.
I really hope I made you understand why this is a big deal. The Met gala is all about having fun. A night where you can be whoever you want and innovate. I think there’s no right or wrong. What I love most about it is how the Institute shows the other face of fashion, and how the gorgeous pieces that these designers create for the event must be considered art. Can’t wait to see what this year’s gala brings!
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Ocean’s 8
The other night my brother and I went to the Carlton in Toronto to catch Ocean’s 8. I had stayed away from the film for a few weeks, I’d caught a few review headlines since it opened, dud, fizzled out, and franchise fatigue had cropped up a few times. When I first saw the publicity still last year, of all the women on the subway, I was amazed that a bunch of my favourite actresses, comedians, and pop singer (Rhianna) were all doing a film together and I put it on my list. I was pleasantly surprised by Ocean’s’8, it was a lot quirkier and funnier than I thought it would be, and occasionally I had to wipe away a tear from laughing.
Early publicity still
The film follows the standard heist format pioneered by post war noir filmmakers. The star, Sandra Bullock, plays Debbie Ocean (Danny Ocean’s sister), and after hatching a scheme in prison for, “five years, eight months, and twelve days,” is released and has to put together a crack-pot team in order to steal a Cartier necklace worth over a hundred-million dollars. There are the typical vignettes of Ocean assembling her team, there’s her former partner turned nightclub owner (Cate Blanchette), the hacker 9-ball (Rihanna), a kleptomaniacal fence (Sarah Paulson), the jewelry expert (Mandy Kaling), the down and out fashion designer (Helena Bonham Carter), and the street wise pick pocket (Awkwafina). Together they execute Ocean’s daring plan to steal the necklace at the Met Gala. There are a few twists and turns in the plot which brings in an insurance agent from England, played by James Corden, to find the jewels. The audience is brought into the action through a series of well timed gags and hair-raising moments of suspense.
Hathaway and Bonham Carter at the Met Gala
I’m a huge fan of heist films, there’s something about the sub-genre that appeals to me. Going all the way back to the Noir heists The Asphalt Jungle, and the French film Rafifi, I’m a sucker for a group of criminals trying to make one last big score. I wasn’t however a huge fan of the original Ocean movies, nor of the Soderbergh reboot. Which is why I was pleasantly surprised that this installment was so good and incredibly funny. It felt like I was watching an old comedy with Carol Lombard or Rosalind Russell, the comedic power of some of these actresses shines through in almost every scene. Helena Bonham Carter has some of the best reactions I’ve seen in years, her subtle head and eye movements executed just at the right time cracked me up, she wears a puzzled look on her face for most of the film which is incredibly endearing. Bonham Carter, being the veteran English actor of the bunch, even knows how to get all the mileage out of a costume during the Met gala, as she moves about in a bizarre outfit in such a way that makes it hilarious. She’s even poking fun at herself as she has been known for some odd fashion choices over the years at red carpet events. Sarah Paulson is very reserved but incredibly funny, her character, a waspy housewife, always seems to be on the brink of loosing her cool façade (she never does), and it’s fascinating to watch her play a mother role in a heist film. Some of her jokes were visual gags that were set up beautifully. The young Awkwafina gets most of the laughs as the street wise hustler, her role had the most potential for comedy, and she relishes every single moment she is on screen. She knows exactly when to hold a joke, letting in linger in the air, something most comedians don’t understand today. It’s not that you have to be funny all the time, it’s that you have to understand the rhythm of a joke. There’s a touch of Leslie Neilson or Bea Arthur in her comedic pauses.
Awkwafina as Constance shines
Anne Hathaway steals some of the show as the vapid gum chewing movie star Daphne Kluger. Her timing is incredibly precise, she uses her gum chewing and big beautiful eyes to really sell her jokes, chewing on her pauses and delivering her lines with surgical precision. I think Hathaway needs to do more comedy outside of the schlocky rom-com type of humour that is ill fitting for her and reboot some the old Carol Lombard type plots that are entirely missing from cinema today.
What was surprisingly nice was that the two headliners, Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchette, never once took the spotlight away from someone else. They played their roles effectively and knew how to share the stage with the supporting cast allowing each of the others to grab some laughs and shine in their roles. If anything, the film was missing one good fight between Bullock and Blanchette. It would have been nice to add just a little tension between the two characters early on in the film, the should we do this scene was flat and self aggrandizing in their sisterly bond.
Ocean’s 8 was co-written and directed by Gary Ross who’s resume includes Big, Pleasantville, and Mr. Baseball (one of my favorite cinematic guilty pleasures). He knows exactly how to set up a joke or a gag and executes it beautifully. What I found interesting is that most of the audience didn’t laugh at some of the funniest moments in the film. It seemed my brother and I, and a group of friends behind us, were the only ones who got the subtle jokes. I think one of the problems is that audiences today aren’t used to the subtly of reactions and visual gags. My favourite moment in the film is when Sarah Paulson’s character is introduced. She is living in the idyll of suburban America and making a healthy green smoothie when Debbie Ocean calls her, her son playing in the background. Answering the phone, she says, “Buddy do you want to stop that,” the threat is implied. Debbie tells her she’s in her garage and when Paulson walks into her garage there are boxes and boxes of stolen goods. It’s such a wonderful joke, that here in this perfect suburban house lies a kleptomaniacal fence. When Debbie asks her what she tells her husband about all the stolen goods Paulson replies dryly and at just the right moment, “eBay,” I couldn’t help but crack up at her delivery.
The perfect life, the perfect house, a life of crime
The other problem plaguing the film is it’s underwhelmingly simplistic visual style. The camera moves and cuts competently enough, but the whole style is reminiscent of a de-contrasted Instagram photo or a mediocre Tumblr mood board. It’s a problem shared with a lot of commercial films these days, lackluster shadow-less vistas of muted colours that lacks any texture or depth. One thing that made last years The Florida Project so appealing was its rich palette and crisp composition, great care was taken at figuring out the mise-en-scène. It’s disappointing that the Ocean’s films, being reboots of the iconic 60’s jet set era, don’t devote more effort to their visual look. There was one sequence in a post-modern airport for a fashion show, and the occasional horizontal venetian blind wipe, but aside from that, the film looks like some washed out mediocre miniseries on the FX channel.
Strong composition, but the lackluster, and washed-out lighting renders the style bland
Ocean’s 8 isn’t pretentious or hokey, it’s just an all female version of a heist film with some incredibly talented actresses. Checking over the box office receipts, the film is doing incredibly well this summer, and along with the Black Panther, is proving to the Hollywood establishment that you can deliver a great product with an all female cast, or a cast of people of colour, or on queer themes, and still turn a tidy sum. People want to watch a good product and they want to see themselves in the characters on the screen. Aside from a few missed opportunities to set this film apart from its predecessors, it’s a fun diversion this summer. If you’re a fan of good comedic pacing, or of any of the actresses, it’s worth the price of admission.
#oceans 8#awkwafina#sarah paulson#cate blanchett#mandy kailing#sandra bullock#anne hathaway#helena bonham carter#heist films#movies of 2018#rihanna#women#carol lombard
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