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Met Gaga Well Played Carpet: Amanda Seyfried


I was going to put this to a vote, but I ended up talking myself into it. I think she looks kind of great — and while she said that she didn’t think she looks very punk, I actually think the pattern on this is tough enough to play along.

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Met Gala Feh Carpet: Lena Dunham


I didn’t think Lena Dunham was going to look all that punk — she’s wearing (and posing with) Erdem, and as much as I really LIKE Erdem, it’s not very punk:

But I also didn’t think she’d look so boring. Maybe she saw the flaming crazy that was Allison Williams and got on the horn and was like, “dude, PULL BACK. I don’t even want to get roped into ANY OF THIS.”

PS: I miss you, Zosia.

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Met Gala Fug or Fab: Ginnifer Goodwin and Jennifer Morrison


Goodwin got big points Monday night for not even flinching when Billy Norwich — who was, and I can’t imagine he would disagree with me here, rather awkward and bad on the Vogue livestream Monday night (for the second year in a row, he was terrible! Hire someone who doesn’t ask “so, how long are you in New York?” as a legitimate question. That is not something viewers at home care about!) — called her “Ginnifer Godwin.” She just smiled and was totally charming. Of course, it’s possible she could NOT flinch, because her eye makeup was weighing her down, but whatever works:

I find the dress a little disappointing. The black harness part is leather, which…okay. And this is Tory Burch, who is never going to make a punk dress, ever. But the attempt feels so TWEE in a way that is almost more awkward (on a night that had a LOT of awkward) than just not even attempting anything at all.

Also not making the most of the evening was Ginnifer’s co-star, Jennifer Morrison:

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Met Gala Well Played, Hailee Steinfeld


When I saw this on the live-feed on Monday night — where Hailee said she thought Avril Lavigne was her favorite punk artist and Teen Vogue‘s Andrew Bevan almost choked on his own tongue laughing at her (in a sweet, older-brotherly way) and yelping that AVRIL IS NOT PUNK — I was all, “cute, Hailee. You’re adorbs. Moving on.” And then I took a closer look:

The dress is leather; the star-bursts are made of tiny safety pins. This is adorable, age-appropriate, event-appropriate, and — best of all — smart.  Avril wishes.

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Met Gala Well Played: Sienna Miller


I feel like a variety of people are looking at Sienna Miller here today and saying to themselves, “oh. That was easy.”

Because the thing is, this IS easy. It’s a great but EXTREMELY STANDARD and unadorned white gown, and she casually threw a(n amazing) studded leather jacket over it and screwed around with her hair a bit. The end. I mean, is anyone going to wake up in the middle of the night and whisper to themselves, “I’ll never forget you, Sienna Miller’s Punk Met Gala Outfit?” Probably not. But nor is anyone going to wake up screaming in the middle of the night “OH GOD SIENNA MILLER’S MET GALA OUTFIT THIS IS WHAT BURNING TASTES LIKE.” She just looks kind of awesome, casually, and also kind of understated, which is a refreshing change for a woman who once wore a bathing suit to lunch and used to tie her own shoes to her pants like they were mittens she was afraid she might lose in a snowbank. I love a refreshing change now and then.

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Met Gala Fug Carpet: Linda Evangelista


Speaking of people Unclear On the Concept (AKA, two-thirds of the people who showed up at this thing):

While everyone else was attending the Met Gala — well, ostensibly, anyway — Linda Evangelista was apparently attending her own wedding. At Medieval Times.

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