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While the Met Gala 2022 concluded on a fashionable note, with many red carpet moments and stories, social media users have not been too pleased with the dress code this year, which was “gilded glamour, white-tie” in keeping with the theme, ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion’.
In fact, many people have made their displeasure public, arguing that in the current socio-political environment in the US and around the world, the term ‘gilded’ does not sound correct.
The word technically refers to ‘wealth and privilege’ and that is what the Met Gala attempted to recreate this time: ‘Gilded Age New York’, believed to be a time period in the country that spanned two decades — from 1870 to 1890 — wherein there was “unprecedented prosperity, cultural change, and industrialization”, a Vogue report stated.
It also noted that the “fashion during that period was one of excess”.
Netizens, however, took to Twitter to call out the organisers, raising some relevant points as to why the dress code was insensitive in today’s day and age. One Twitter user pointed out that amid the pandemic, when there is also an “economic meltdown”, the Met Gala dress code was all wrong. Check out their tweet:
Check out these other reactions:
Hasan Piker, a political commentator, wrote, “The Met Gala is happening again already, and this year’s theme is straight flexing. it’s gilded glamour. At a time when wealth inequality has passed gilded age levels, they’ve gone fully mask off lmao.”
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