Following a less than stellar comeback in September the rules are being tightened for this year’s fashion Oscars. | Damien Woolnough metgala metgala2022
A masked Kim Kardashian walking the red carpet in a black Balenciaga bodysuit for last year’s Met Gala was the straw that almost broke the back of the spectacle commonly referred to as fashion’s Oscars, which returns this Monday night in New York.
Gilded glamour takes this year’s formality further, referring to an era of prosperity in the US captured in the Netflix series, spanning 1870 to 1900, which borrowed its name from an 1873 satire of greed and corruption by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner.
“People just seemed to be doing their own thing last year,” Kahlil said. “This time I’m hoping to see things over the top. I suspect that we will be seeing a lot of gold. We are ready for opulence.” Miranda Kerr in her favourite Met Gala look from 2017, where she skirted the avant-garde dress code in a strapless Oscar de la Renta gown.Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr is a veteran of the 2011, 2013, 2016 and 2017 Met Galas and only started working on her concept for this year’s event recently.