The Met Gala: A Rant

Every Year I sit and eagerly await the Met Gala. The worlds best and brightest stars gather all wearing incredible outfits, I love trawling through the photo archives to see what everybody was wearing, and boy are there some absolutely incredible clothes out there, on some rather beautiful people (in my opinion). So every year I get excited about what they are going to wear and Every. Single. Year. One or Two people look absolutely NAIL that years theme. They are my rock stars. Everybody else is a disappointment. Regardless of how stunning they look. If there is a theme YOU STICK TO IT. It is an honour to be invited to an event such as this, you are not to take it for granted you selfish people!

This years theme was Manus x Machina: Fashion in an age of Technology. Just Imagine what people could have been wearing, Think about the opportunities that that presented designers, What an Incredible brief! It Should have filled them with so much inspiration that they burst with the most crazy wonderful designs! But it didn't. Did it? Now I could sit here and list all those people who annoyed me this year....but trust me its such a long list I think I would go crazy before I finished it. So Instead I will share my personal highlights of the night.

I have a top three who I think really nails this years theme:

Beyonce Knowles 

Wearing a dress designed by Riccardo Trsci for Givenchy made entirely from latex, was the perfect mixture of quirky and beautiful. This is on my list at number three because although the dress was quite beautiful but not groundbreaking, making it from latex was a nice nod to how the fashion industry has embraced new technologies to accomplish this.

Emma Watson 

Emma as always had an agenda which is a really fabulous thing. I am a huge fan of this remarkable lady. She was wearing Calvin Klein who had collaborated with the Green Carpet Campaign. The dress was made from recycled bottles. I was extremely impressed by the foresight to use the theme of the evening to highlight the massive advancements being made in eco fashion. I approve.

Claire Danes 

Now the person who for me, and everyone else in the universe who 'won' the met gala this year was the stunning Claire Danes who wore a custom made dress designed by Zac Posen. This dress captured the imagination of everyone who saw it. Not only was it stunning, it was inventive, enticing and perfectly captured the theme of the evening. It was made from fibre optic woven organza and had thirty battery packs seen into the design according to FastCo. This dress was being broadcast over social media instantly and everybody was talking about the glowing dress.

THIS is what the met gala is about, Pushing boundaries within fashion. It is the perfect platform to show experimental new ideas, people will talk about it. I just wish that more people would capitalise upon this. Maybe next year we will see some really amazing and iconic fashion moments being made.