Met Gala 2021

 

Hello Charlie! Today I am going to be witing my very first article ;wow wow wow!

I am going to talk about the Met Gala,the 2021 mostly, but also some general informations.

It's a fundraising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. So stars, young creatives, and industry paragons are generally invited ,this year Tiktokers like Adisson Rae or Madison Beer were also there but also famous youtubers like Emma Chamberlain who covered the interviews of the stars for the Vogue's youtube channel. By the way I highly recommand you to check out these short videos or even the longer ones where you can see the whole process of creating an outfit for the Met Ball. Also Vogue is doing the whole media coverage.

So each year ,two themes are chosen and the celebreties need to find an outfit for both ;this year the themes were:"In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,”and “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” who will take place in may 2022 (for the second one.)

There are also always co-chairs at every met ball ;who are peaople who basically help with the guest list, food, decor and the "general feel of the evening."This year it's Billie Eilish, Naomi Osaka, Amanda Gorman, and Timothée Chalamet.I like that these co-chairs are all very differant from their jobs to their looks. Amanda Gorman is a poet, Timothée Chalamet is an actor, she wore a dress and he wore sweats .This variety encorages diversity and I think it's fun and important to encorage and represent that as a co-chair.

So here are the looks I loved the most from this year;first of all, the Jenners and Kardashians(I had to start with them, I guess I am going to write an article about them someday)

1) Kendall Jenner is wearing a sparking dress inspired by Audrey Hedburn in "My Fair Lady" (an american icon)She looked FFFIIIRRRE

2) Kim Kardashian ,her look wasn't very impressive or beatifull in my point of view .She wore Balenciaga ensemble consisting of a black t-shirt with a train, black tights, and—oh yeah—a black mask that completely covered her face!

I recognize it was a pretty good idea...

She could be one of the night’s most-talked about without even showing her face. Fun fact ,her makeup artist did her make up that day,so if you ever fell useless remember that !

3) Let's move on to the Biebers; they looked very elegent even if their looks were a bit to much classic in my opinion Justin Beaber wore a black suit from his own label ''Drew House'' , and Hailey wore a slinky black dress by Saint Laurent .

4)Timothee Chalamet ;I don't love his look but he definitly completly the theme and he's Timothee Chalamet, so he never really takes himself seriously .He wore sweats,converse,and a blazer.

Pretty legendary if you ask me ,I guess we will all remenber this one !

5)The famous congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a BoldStatement dress that screams ’Tax The Rich’.I t's interesting to use thes fashion events and fashion in general to express something here a political message ;which is pretty normal to her.Besides the dress is pretty basic but very beatifull and elegant.

Now that you know a bit more about the Met I will end this article by explaining to you the after party.

First of it's a party held after another event.There are actually ,at he Met Ball plenty stars that host one ,the annual evening at the very chic Top of the Standard hotel,Rihanna's party at the 1 Oak club,or LaQuan Smith who organized a jump under the Kosciuszko Bridge. But the invitation to absolutely win (the best one!), is the Balenciaga party.First of because all the cool people were there(Kim in a better dress,Kendall,Olivia Rodrigo and many others ) and second of all at everybody's suprise Justin Bieber sang!

Here are a couple of pictures :

Thanks for reading this article !

Salomé

it's bimbo time again

i usually feel bad caring so much about aesthetics and superficial hyperfeminine stuff but you know what? this is just internalised misoginy and cringe culture and i can do whatever i want, here are my favourite aesthetics and subcultures that i want to dress like but cannot afford

first of all, here are my favourite features of fashion in general regardless of subculture:

-i am not that comfortable wearing light or bright colours so black and dark colours are my favourite, although pops of bright colour in a black outfit or a beautiful pastel gown are sometimes cool too

-SILHOUETTE SILHOUETTE SILHOUETTE, i love a dramatic, contrasted silhouette, a loose shirt tucked into slim waisted pants, a very poofy skirt with a tight shirt, crinolines and petticoats, 1870s corsets... what i mean is a structured outfit with a cinched waist is is always the way to go for me

-layers babey, whether its wearing a jean jacket over a flannel over a tee shirt over another shirt, or it's a cape over an overskirt over an underskirt over a petticoat over a crinoline. everything for the drama and extravanganza(and maybe a bit too much warmth)

now for the actual styles:

kinderwhore and tradgoth: i listen to a bit of riot grrrl but no goth music so DONT CALL ME A POSER I NEVER CLAIMED TO BE GOTH. i grouped these two subcultures/aesthetics together even though they arent that connected since i like them in a way that overlaps a bit(i didnt find pictures of people mixing the two fashions tho) i love edgy hyperfemininity and my whole aesthetic is based on watching beetlejuice when i was like 7 years old and choosing to base my personality on lydia deetz

scenecore, mallgoth and emo fashion: yes i know the word scenecore is annoying but i prefer the modern scenecore aesthetic to real scene so just ignore it. anyways, i have been an obnoxious emo since middle school and even though im not really a band fan anymore my aesthetic is still tainted by years worshipping my chemical romance and icon for hire

ok these few aesthetics seem lowkey coherent so now for the one that doesnt make sense, 1740s-1880s historical/historically inspired fashion: yeah, i dont know why but somehow my style icons both include siouxsie sioux and madame de pompadour. you might have already heard about my obsession with historical dress if you read my last post. sometimes you don't wanna be edgy and quirky, sometimes you just wanna pretend to be a rich lady in a very racist and classist era (even more than this classist and racist era)

wow that was a lot of pictures and i havent even mentionned all of my style inspirations like classic and goth lolita, vintage clowns, dark academia, cottagecore, goblincore... so here's my fashion pinterest board for that. but this is already a lot so thank you so much if you bothered to read this to the end :^). oh yeah and make sure to tell me about your personal favourite fashions im genuinely interested in that let's be bimbos together

(btw i am saying bimbo as a gender neutral thing, not necessarily a woman but anyone who is into fashion and aesthetics and at least a little bit stupid)

rambling about corsetry

 hey, if you know me, you probably already know i love corsets  and am mildly obsessed with historical fashion. however, these are constantly vilified by media, so i just wanted to talk about them real quick :)

so, i guess you all already know what corsets are but still: corsets and stays are boned garments that appeared in the 16th century and were used by people (not just women) to support their back and chest and, later, to shape the body in a flattering way. they went out of fashion in the early 20th century but are still sometimes worn for asthetic or medical purposes. though they are two different kinds of garments, stays are usually called corsets as they are kinda similar and it's easier to just group them together. the difference is stays are conical shaped, meanwhile corsets are hourglass shaped. they were usually boned with whalebone or featherbone, and more modernly with plastic or steel 

although they are usually portrayed by modern media as torture instruments, people would work, play sports and exercise in them. however i am absolutely not saying that wearing corsets too often cannot be bad for the body or restrict movement. to this day people wear corsets for scoliosis, although, these are way less comfortable since instead of fabric and flexible boning they are made out of plastic

although i have never worn a historical corset, i have regularily worn a modern one for the past two years and here are the answers to things i got asked:

• can you breathe in it? absolutely: although my stomach  and lower ribs are mildly compressed i can breathe just fine from my upper chest

• can you eat in it? yes but not as much, kinda like a tight belt

• does it make you nauseous/make your stomach hurt? absolutely not, since the pressure is mild and distributed on a large area it doesnt affect my organs at all

also it supports my back and makes it less painful, it also keeps me from slouching. here, have a video about that

now i just wanna talk about the most common corset trope in media: super tight corsets that restrict airflow

movies sure love to make it seem like women wore extremely tight corsets everyday, although women at the time did sometimes tight lace, it was reserved to very special occasions (usually once or twice a year) and only for wealthy, high society folk. kinda like when modern celebrities wear steel boned corsets on red carpets

the reason we think waists were made extremely small is partly that the pictures of the time were modified and the portraits and illustrations made their subject's waists look smaller. this is as if people in 300 years thought we all looked like photoshopped pictures in fashion magazines

also, bigger corsets were more likely to get upcycled, or get worn to bits, so most of the authentic corsets that remain are quite small.

there's also the fact that most critiques of corsets from the time came from men who didnt wear corsets and feminine fashion was often looked down upon bc, u know, misogyny, here's another video about that:

also this is obviously not how you tighten a corset, you pull the laces in opposite directions, like shoelaces. you also dont need a whole team of maids, u can just do it in a mirror or even without one if you have more braincells than me(which is very likely)

another trope that isn't as common but still annoys me is the lack of garments underneath the corsets. obviously, lacing it on bare skin is sexier but it can pinch and chafe the skin, therefore it's both inacurate and uncomfortable for the actors. people at the time would wear chemises or shifts, here, look at a lady with proper undergarments, doesnt she look cool

also although it was way less common, some men wore corsets too, as back support but also to shape their belly

now that im done getting mad at modern depictions of corsetry (though i could go on) i just wanna show some corsets and stays i like bc why not:

some mid 1700s stays

 these are my favourite cuz i love their silhouette and they are quite pretty and decorative since they were often visible (unlike most other corsets which were basically underwear)

1860s and 1870s corsets, i really love the silhouette of 1860s dresses and the corsets are integral to it

some edwardian ladies (1900-1910s), i just love the edwardian "pigeon bust" silhouette and i love how the undergarments looked, so much lace and volume

also why not share some historical fashion creators i love: karolina zebrowska, bernadette banner, abby cox,  @ladyrebeccafashions, @asta.darling, @elle.lexxa(absolutely not aiming for historical accuracy but i love the stays she wears), @french.meadows (again not really accurate but gorgeous). (the @s are all on instagram, the other names are on youtube)

yayyy i finally got these corset thoughts off my mind (know that everytime you look at me i am thinking about historical fashion and keep myself from talking about it not to annoy everyone, even here i tried making it less detailed and try to get rid of things), maybe im not done infodumping and i'll do another post about historical fashion, thanks for reading