Met Gala Well Played: Sienna Miller

May 8, 2013 By Jessica AT 7:30 am
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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 Ball Fug Carpet: Elizabeth Banks

May 8, 2013 By Heather AT 7:00 am
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I’m actually not sure I buy that people chickened out of punk purely to avoid ridicule or looking overly costumey. Because plenty of people still looked costumey and ridiculous; just in the wrong way, which suggests that a lot of them already knew what larger-than-life silliness they wanted to wear (or in the designers’ case, what they wanted to showcase) and just didn’t care if it fit. For example, if the theme of the Met Ball had been “Cocktail and Cocktail Pajamas,” then this would’ve felt apt:

It’s ’80s, it’s insanely decadent, it feels like something an adult would wear to a party thrown by Prince that promises lots of pillow fights and maybe a tiger in a cage suspended over the center of the room, and I’m not entirely convinced it isn’t also a bathing-suit cover-up. But punk? Not to me., unless you consider that a show called Punky Brewster was on during that decade. That’s some pretty tenuous connective thread though — almost as thin as the Hefty shards creating the car washes on her feet.

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Met Ball Well Playeds and Hmms and Zzzs: More Celebs Who Look Perfectly Fine, Mostly, But Also Seriously Could Be Absolutely Anywhere Else

May 7, 2013 By Heather AT 4:00 pm
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Renee Zellweger in Carolina Herrera
Michelle Williams in (Yves) Saint LaurentMichelle WilliamsClaire Danes in Oscar de la RentaFlorence Welch in Givenchy
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So, there is acreage between “catering to your dramatic whims” and “looking like a crazypants naked and/or upholstered crackpot,” and the whole point of the Met Ball is the former, even if you fall on your face doing it (which leads to the latter, and outfits like that are exactly why Anna’s annual gala is such a hilarious good time and must never, ever change, even when we get capsy over people’s insane choices). Don’t we think it’s about time, say, Renee Zellweger had some semblance of a dramatic whim again? She is operating at a severe dramatic whimsy deficit. Her last one was Kenny Chesney, I think, and although that didn’t turn out so well for her, it was a VERY exciting time for all of us looky-loos. ALWAYS THINK OF THE LOOKY-LOOS. If we’re stuck with a stupid term like that to describe what we’re doing, then at least please make sure we’re having fun doing it.

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Met Ball SIGH Carpet: Gisele Bundchen

May 7, 2013 By Heather AT 3:30 pm
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Oh, COME ON:

You’re supposed to be Gisele Bundchen, not Erin Wasson. Or does this mean you’re worried that they’re becoming the same thing?

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Met Ball Fug Carpet: Zooey Deschanel

May 7, 2013 By Heather AT 3:00 pm
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It’s not even that I don’t LIKE this, necessarily…

… just that, what party did anyone think this WAS? I get that it’s Tommy Hilfiger, and he’s the baron of preppy yachting-chic attire, but the Met Ball is not on a boat. It’s not even boat-adjacent, unless you count everything going on at the piers on the West side of Manhattan, which surely Anna Wintour does not. It’s also not on a beach, at the Hamptons, at someone’s back patio wedding, or in a Land’s End formalwear catalog. So punk theme or not, I’m a little confused about lavender seersucker at the Met Ball, period. I’m ALSO really not sure what I think about ZD without her signature bangs — something that I’m sure she feels a little stuck with now, as most people do with things that inadvertently became their signatures (see also: The Rachel, and possibly Tom Selleck or Victor Newman and their ‘staches) — so let’s just vote on all of it even though I’m vehement in my conclusion that this dress REALLY does not belong here. VEHEMENT, I TELL YOU.

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Met Ball Fug Carpet: More Olde-Tymey Melodrama

May 7, 2013 By Heather AT 2:30 pm
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Katy Perry
Zachary QuintoAshley OlsenMary-Kate Olsen
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If Linda Evangelista looked like the cover of a book about Lady Jane Grey, fictionalizing that she lived and was whisked away to grow up in hiding in Scotland, or something, so she could come back and claim the throne from a position of strength, then several other people are apparently supporting players in that story. Was there a memo?

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