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MET GALA SCROLL: All garden, no time · Mini Scroll

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Hi everyone. Welcome to Mini Scroll, the
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from social media, the creator economy and the digital space.
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Every Monday through Thursday. I'm your host, Lauren Meisner,
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the founder of the youth digital media brand Centennial World.
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Welcome to Mini Scroll everyone. This new setup, I'm still
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getting used to it very much so as you can tell my mini scroll
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sign behind me is currently sitting on 2 candles.
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Really just trying to figure it out.
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It's a bit makeshift right now, but we're getting there.
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So today I am bringing you the Met Gala recap.
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Let's see if we can do this in a mini scroll sized episode.
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I am not confident because I love to waffle and there is so
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much to talk about, so many looks to go through.
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But let's get into it. So every year on the first
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Monday of May, Hollywood's elite rushed to the Metropolitan
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Museum of Art for Fashion's biggest night out AKA the Met
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Gala. Hosting this year's affair was
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Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya.
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As ambassadors of the event, they were responsible for
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curating the aesthetics of the night and embracing the theme.
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As Vogue notes quote, the role of a Co chair also expands into
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the guest list the food, the decor, and the general feel of
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the evening. While Internet users often treat
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the Met Gala as a fashion show, it is an annual fundraiser event
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for the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the New York City's
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Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute.
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That is a serious mouthful. That said, this year Soiree
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celebrated the opening of a new exhibit, Sleeping Beauty's
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Reawakening Fashion quote. The forthcoming show has not to
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do with the Brothers Grimm or Disney, but rather the
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celebration of clothing and fashion so fragile that it can't
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ever be worn again, Lila Ramsey writes.
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For Vogue, the exhibition was paired with a specific dress
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code. This year, the theme was The
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Garden of Time, inspired by a short story by JG Ballard
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published in 1962. For those unfamiliar with
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Ballard's work, the story follows Count Axel and his wife
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as an unruly mob draws closer to the couple's tranquil villa.
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Ultimately, the story is a dystopian take on modern entity,
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pointing to the adverse effects of opulence, consumption and
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destruction. Quote The story ends with the
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unthinking mob descending onto the villa, now a derelict
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property with a neglected garden.
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Boiled down, the dress code as well as the exhibition is about
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fleeting beauty. OK, so with that in mind, I'm
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going to go through some of the looks.
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This is not a comprehensive list at all.
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I just had to pick and choose. And there are some key
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celebrities and some key looks that I just did not have the
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ability to put into these notes. I just didn't have time or I
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just didn't really care about them, you know?
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Like, I wanted to pick the ones that at least kind of gave me
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something, whether I liked it, whether I didn't like it.
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First off the bat, I wanted to say there was so much like
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ethereal fantasy going on, which I really like.
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I love that kind of aesthetic. But when it came to like the
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Garden of Time, people really embraced garden and not so much
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time. Annabelle was saying before
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there was such a missed opportunity for someone to come
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with like a million watches, like all up their sleeves or you
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know, anything that was like more signifying of time.
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I know that Tyler did have that hourglass purse which was so
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sick, but other than that, like there wasn't a ton of, like time
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imagery going on. And I feel like that was
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absolutely a missed opportunity. Lots of garden.
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OK, so first up, Emma Chamberlain.
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She was wearing Jean Paul Gaultier and I really liked her
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look. She felt very like gothic garden
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fairy. I loved how ethereal and Drapey
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it all was, but that was all black and Lacy.
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I loved it. I actually one of my favorite
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looks of the night. Her makeup was amazing, that
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Smokey eye. I find her makeup, the Mechala
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is always so stunning, and I don't know if that's just
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because we don't see Emma and makeup very often.
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I loved it. The only thing, there's one
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little thing that I just immediately clocked and I could
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not Unsee. Her foundation didn't quite
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match her body. It didn't quite match, just
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marginally, but I could not Unsee it.
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But I loved that she embraced her natural skin tone like she
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didn't have a spray tan. And actually, a lot of the
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attendees really rocked like kind of a paler skin look, like
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they're natural skin. And I loved that.
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OK, the next one that I wanted to talk about is Madeleine
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Klein. So she was wearing Tommy
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Hilfiger. I hated this dress.
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It looked like it didn't fit. First of all, I thought it was a
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really bad color on her. It reminded me of like a
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student, like a fashion student's first draft at what GJ
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had Jujit, Jujit Hadid, Gigi Hadid's dress actually was, and
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I'm going to talk about Gigi's in a bit, but that's what it
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reminded me of. It felt like unfinished.
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It felt like it was trying to do something that it just wasn't
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quite achieving. And I really liked her makeup.
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I love the white eyeliner, white eyeshadow.
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I loved her makeup, but it felt like her makeup, her hair and
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the dress they all belonged to, different looks like it wasn't
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cohesive at all and it just felt very disjointed and off base.
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And it was very upsetting to me because I love Madeline Klein
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and I feel like she usually kind of shows out for this kind of
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stuff. She's always a bit understated.
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She's never like the most costumey on at the Met Gala or
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on any red carpet, but she always, I feel like, does pretty
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well and this was just a huge miss for me.
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So next we have Zendaya. She was wearing Mason Margiela's
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Jean Galliano, and this was such a powerful look.
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Like, even look aside, anytime Zendaya shows up on a red
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carpet, I'm like, Oh yeah, you were born to be famous.
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The star power that just oozes out of her, it like, radiates
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off of her, like she has fame. You know that girl in TikTok
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that talks about how fame is like a resource, Like Zendaya
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has that resource more than fucking anybody in the world.
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It's actually unreal to watch her do a photo shoot on the red
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carpet, do interviews. Like it's it's unreal.
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Like she was meant to be famous. So anything she wears or does,
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even if it's like the ugliest thing ever, she just absolutely
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slays because she's just like amazing in her element in these
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moments. I did love the vibe and like her
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makeup was so sick. I didn't quite love the stripes
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at the bottom. I just like fucking hate
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stripes. Like there's just something
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about stripes that like, feel really juvenile and like
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clownish to me. So I really did not like the
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stripes. I felt like it kind of cheapened
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the look a bit. And then she had a second look,
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like after the red carpet kind of finished, maybe 30-40 minutes
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later she came back out and she was wearing this very like Pride
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and Prejudice, like Jet Black dress, which I really liked.
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But she was also wearing this hat.
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And I don't know if this was on purpose, but it looked like a
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giant fish was on her head, filled with flowers.
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And I don't know if it was supposed to be like a fish or if
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that's just what it ended up looking like.
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But to me, all I could see was that she was wearing a fish on
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her head. Next, Ariana Grande, she was
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wearing lueve. I think that's how you say it.
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I've seen some people call it low, but I think it's lueve.
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So this look, to me, it was unsurprising.
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I feel like it looks like everything that Ariana Grande
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has been wearing in this era of her career since she, you know,
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bleached her hair and is going for like a Manic Pixie Dream
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Girl. And we've seen this makeup look
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on her before, in my opinion. Like, she had these, I don't
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know, I guess they were supposed to be like little wings, like
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almost like fairy wings, kind of like off her eyes.
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And it just reminded me of so many of the makeup looks we've
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seen kind of in this era. Like I said, her dress had this.
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I mean, I loved the dress, like it was a beautiful look.
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It was just unsurprising and uninspired in my opinion.
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I liked how it had this dropped waist kind of toga inspired
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skirt that we saw a little bit of.
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We saw a little bit of like this toga vibe going on on the red
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carpet. But yeah, all together,
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obviously. Beautiful look.
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I think she looked like healthy and glowing.
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She looked the best. She's looked in a really long
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time in my opinion on this red carpet, but we have seen this
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from her many times before, in my opinion, over the last couple
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of years. OK, Gigi Hadid obsessed,
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obsessed. OK, so she was wearing Tom Brown
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and it was so Tom Brown. Like, it was so obvious.
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I'm not even a fashion girly. And I was like, that's got to be
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Tom Brown. I loved this.
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I could not stop looking at it. And I have no idea if that's
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like a popular opinion or not. I haven't really seen anyone
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talking about Gigi's look, but I freaking loved it.
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I thought it was So it was exactly.
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In my opinion, it wasn't necessarily Gigi, but it was
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very Tom Brown. It was exactly how like I would
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picture that designer interpreting this theme the way
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that I perceived it. It was like, you know, Gigi
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shedding this kind of more masculine energy and emerging as
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this, you know, beautiful feminine flower.
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And it was just the symbolism was so spot on.
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Like, I mean I I don't even know if you could call it symbolism,
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like it was just like handed to us on a plate.
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But I loved it. Like, I loved looking at her
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dress. It was so interesting to look
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at. And that's what I want from the
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Met Gala, right? Like, it doesn't necessarily
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need to be the most beautiful thing.
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It doesn't need to necessarily be like the most fashion forward
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thing. I just want it to be cool to
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look at. And that for me, like Gigi's
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look for me was that someone else I loved looking at was Lil
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Nas X. He was wearing Lore and he had
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50,000 Swarovski crystals all over this white suit and he had
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these sick nails like honestly, OK, this is gonna sound so
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unhinge, but they did remind me of Trisha Paytas's nails when
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she used to get like Bejeweled nails all the time.
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When she first started ASMR like 8 years ago, they did kind of
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remind me of Trisha Paytas's nails, but loved them.
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Very cool. I don't know if this was
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necessarily on theme, but I thought it was so sick to look
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at. It was so interesting.
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And he did have the flower, like he had a flower brooch thing.
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And I don't know, it was sick. OK, Dua Lipa, I hate to say it.
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So she was in Marc Jacobs. But I really did not like this.
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Somehow this look was both not boring at all and like the most
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boring thing that I've seen on the red carpet.
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Like if you asked me to describe what Dua Lipa wore on the red
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carpet, even though I have literally looked at so many
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photos of the Michaela in preparation for this episode, I,
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you know, wrote this. I put her photo in.
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I couldn't even tell you what she wore.
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Like it was so not memorable and I don't quite know why.
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And I know year after year we watch celebrities come on the
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Met Gala red carpet and we're like, that is not on theme, but
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I like it anyways or whatever. For me, being on theme is so
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important to the Met Gala. Like that's one of the major
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things that I look at. If it's interesting to look at
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and if it's on theme, those two things I care about a lot.
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And if it's not like, so obviously on theme, like if I'm
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having a hard time understanding if it's on theme, then to me
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it's not on theme. So it could be on theme, but for
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me it's not. Next we have Kylie Jenner.
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She was wearing Oscar de la Renta.
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And I mean, this was incredibly boring.
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I know it was based off of like a statue, but wow, this was so
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boring. The only thing that I think we
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haven't really seen Kylie do that she did in this look was
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the cone bra. But this literally just looks
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like every really chic, elegant look that we've seen Kylie do on
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a red carpet. I don't know, we've seen it 100
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times before. The problem with Kylie and also
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Kendall, and actually I would also argue Khloe Kardashian, but
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Khloe wasn't at the red carpet at the Met Gala.
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I'll talk about Kendall in a second, But the problem is that
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they care the most about looking hot, and I think that impacts
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the looks that they actually could pull off.
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And when it comes to Kylie, it's so disappointing because we've
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seen Kylie let her guard down and like, rough it up and be
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like, quote UN quote, like ugly in a photo shoot.
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Like, you know what I mean? Like really be like artistic and
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avant-garde and really cool, like this edgy grittiness.
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We've seen that from her in photo shoots before and in her
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modeling. But anytime she steps out in
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public or does a red carpet or does a Fashion Week or whatever,
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she cannot let her guard down. We never see that energy from
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her. She has to put this guard right
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back up where she's just like this stonewalled hot Kardashian.
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And it's such a shame because she has so much potential.
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Like we've seen the modeling shots.
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She should have been the model in the family.
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OK, Speaking of Kendall, she's wearing Shivanshi and same thing
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as I said with Kylie, just too much of A guard up, you know,
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her whole priority seems to always just being like looking
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hot in chic. And she did.
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She looked like a really hot brunette legless.
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She really went for that like elf vibe.
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It was a little bit more costume than I think we've seen her in
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recent years, which I appreciate because this is like literally
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the Costume Institute, but, you know, still pretty boring.
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Someone else who went elf vibes was Carol G went as, like an
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actual elf with, like, elf prosthetic ears, which actually
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appreciated. Like, if you're going to go for
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a vibe, like, go for a vibe like if you're going to go for like,
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this costume, just wear the fucking costume.
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And yeah, she looked exactly like, legless.
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So loved it. All right, Kim Kardashian.
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She was wearing Mason Margiela by John Galliano.
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I actually loved this. I loved the dress.
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Oh my God, I loved the dress. If you are going to do like
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ethereal garden vibes, this is how I want it to be.
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I feel like we saw a lot of dresses like Karlie Kloss's
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comes to mind. I'm not going to talk about her
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because I found it quite boring, but her dress for the red carpet
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comes to mind where everybody kind of did.
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If you're if they're going to go for like full on florals, they
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did what she did, which is kind of like sparkly flowers all over
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on like a mash or like nude dress.
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So it looks like you're naked but you're wearing flowers.
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Like everybody went for that vibe.
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And this was such a unique take on it because it was like
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similar, but it was like silver and just, I don't know, just the
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way it was executed. I don't know the right words
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because I'm not a fashion girly, but it was perfection.
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I fucking loved the dress. And I know the shawl sweater
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thing was kind of controversial, but I didn't mind it.
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Like I thought it made the look really interesting and it didn't
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take away from it. I think sometimes when
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celebrities add things to their looks, like this, like costumey
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things to their looks, it can take away from the dress.
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I don't think it did that at all.
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I don't think it necessarily needed the shawl, but I
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understood where the vision was, I think.
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I think. But everyone of course is
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talking about Kim's waist because it is literally this
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big, literally the smallest waist that we've ever seen.
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I mean, that's always her thing, OK, right.
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So she always makes a body part, part of her outfits or
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aesthetic. So for years it was her butt,
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and now it is her waist and her arms.
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And her obsession with her tiny waist started at the Met Gala,
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if you guys remember when she wore that dress, I don't
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remember. Was it also the same designer?
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I don't remember who designed it, but it was that dress where
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she was, like dripping. Like it looked like she was
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dripping in water and Kanye was there as well.
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And she had like, that slicked wet black hair.
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So good. I loved that look.
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So yes, that was, I believe the beginning of her obsession with
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her tiny little waist and everybody's like, did she get
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ribs removed? How is she doing this?
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I think we forget how tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny Kim
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Kardashian is. Like she's very curvy.
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So she looks I think like bigger than she actually is on our
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screens. But she herself, she's like 5
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foot, like she is like a tiny little Polly pocket.
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And her hip to waist ratio has always been quite extreme.
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And I think over the years with her BBLS and things like that,
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you know, that's only become more exaggerated.
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So I do believe this is her real waist and it is wild because
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it's so small. But she is so small.
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Like she is like a tiny person. I think if you saw her in
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person, you would be shocked at how tiny she actually is.
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I don't think she's had like, ribs removed or anything like
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that. I think she's wearing like a
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really aggressive corset. And her hip to waist ratio is so
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extreme that it looks so much smaller.
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Someone else who is a tiny little Polly pocket is Sabrina
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Carpenter. She was wearing Oscar de la
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Renta and to me, this look was so underwhelming, so unfortunate
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because she is literally the pop star of the moment.
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And yeah, it was just boring. She could have worn this on any
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red carpet. The glam I feel like she could
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have just done if she did like a lighter brow, even like a bleach
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brow. I don't know, maybe we're over
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bleach brows. But if she did a lighter brow or
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something more interesting with her makeup, she just did her
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pretty much regular glam and it's like if she had just done
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something more interesting, I think it could have helped.
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But this all together was just so nothing, unfortunately.
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But I did love, like I said about Emma Chamberlain, I loved
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her pale skin, like her skin really was to me the standout of
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this whole look, just how youthful and hydrated and
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luminous it looked. And I loved that.
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It didn't look like she had a spray tan and she was rocking
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kind of like her natural pale skin.
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It was very elegant and I loved that vibe.
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But yes, disappointed for sure. Taylor Russell was in Lavey and
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she had a drop toga waist like Ariana Grande and she had this
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like wooden shield almost as the top with florals kind of painted
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on it. Just very minimal, like two big
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flowers on either like top and bottom.
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And it was very cool. It was very interesting to look
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at And Morgan Stewart said that this was real fashion.
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So I'm going to believe it and I'm going to say that this was a
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win because I believe Morgan Stewart and then Lana Del Rey.
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She was wearing Alexander McQueen by Sean Mcgear.
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I loved this. She was wrapped in twigs and
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like draped in fabric, and she looked exactly like the antler
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queen from yellow Jackets. That's like the first thing I
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thought of. But it was so sick.
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I think it was such an interesting twist, like a unique
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twist on the theme. We didn't see anything else like
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it, as far as I could tell from anyone else, and it felt just so
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right. And so on theme, it didn't feel
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over the top, it didn't overpower her, but it still felt
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like a Met Gala costume, quote, UN quote, right?
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Like something you would want to see on the Met Gala.
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Because for me, the marker of a Met Gala outfit is like
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something you couldn't wear on another red carpet.
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So to me, perfect. OK, Sydney Sweeney, she was in
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mew mew. Oh my God, this was such a miss
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for me. Unfortunately.
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First of all, I thought it was Billie Eilish and I don't know
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why, but if it was Billie Eilish I probably would have liked it
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more. I don't know, it was just
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something. It felt so off.
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This look completely overpowered her, especially the wig.
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The wig was like too big for her head, almost too big for her
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face. And it felt like a kid playing
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dress up in a wig store, like a costume store, as opposed to
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somebody stepping out for the Mechala, like one of the biggest
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actresses in the world going to the Mechala.
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It just overpowered her, like she was not wearing this look.
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This look was wearing her Mindy Kaling, She was wearing Gaurav
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Gupta. And I loved the back of her
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dress. This is another one that I
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haven't seen a lot of people talk about or mentioned.
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So I don't know if this is, I don't know, a popular opinion or
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not, but I really fucking love this.
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I thought it was so sick. I loved the back of it and I
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loved how it like twisted up to the front over her head, like I
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thought it was so cool. It was one of the coolest
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dresses that I think I've ever seen anybody wear.
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It was sick. It felt like a look worthy of
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the Met Gala. And then we have Cardi B and she
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was the last one to arrive on the red carpet.
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Zendaya went on the red carpet again after with her second
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look, but as far as I know, Cardi waited until everyone was
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off the red carpet and then she went on.
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She was wearing window sin and it was this massive like giant
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beautiful black tulle dress. I don't know if it was on theme,
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but I don't know if it matters because it was so cool, like it
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was ginormous, despite how ginormous it was.
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It did not overpower her like she was fucking wearing that
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look. She really has these amazing
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high fashion moments. I fucking love it.
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It almost looks like the embodiment of, you know, when
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you're watching a kids movie. I don't know how to explain this
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well. And they're in like a forest or
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a jungle or something. And then this bad presence
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starts to seep in to the nature and it like, overwhelms it.
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And it's almost like this, like smoky, like black smoky fog or
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like sludge or something. That's what it reminds me of.
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Like it reminds me of an ethereal fairy forest that is
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getting like contaminated with bad vibes, which is actually
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kind of the theme. So I take it back.
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She was on theme, OK? And my best dressed, finally, my
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best best dressed was Mona Patel.
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So Mona is actually a fashion entrepreneur, and she's not
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super famous. She only have 15,000 Instagram
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followers when she went on the red carpet.
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She's like a philanthropist. She like combines her business,
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combines philanthropy and fashion.
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And I think she does a lot of other things in fashion as well.
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But it was her first Met Gala. She was styled by La Roche and
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she was wearing Iris Van Herpen and her dress.
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I just thought it was perfect. It was ethereal, but it was also
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like armor almost. It was it was it like combined
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the theme perfectly. It was like she was wearing this
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coat of arms almost to protect herself, but it was so ethereal
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and beautiful. It kind of did feel a bit like
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elfish. But then on her arms this is
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like what did it for me. She had all of these butterflies
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and they moved when she walked and it was so beautiful, like
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stunning. I feel like this is the perfect
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way to do something that's really feminine and beautiful
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and ethereal while also being really interesting and different
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to me. It was just exactly what the Met
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is about. So that's that, guys.
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I hope that this episode wasn't too long, but I'm sure you guys
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won't mind. Thank you so much for listening
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to Mini Scroll. I love you guys and I will talk
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to you tomorrow. Bye.