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All of the important pretty people got dressed up for the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala, which was themed "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy." Vogue editor Anna Wintour wore the Karl Lagerfeld Chanel dress on the left. Of this creation, Australia's Age said Wintour "got it horribly wrong;" one blogger said it was "one of a kind... which is good because we don't need two of those;" and the diplomatic Times said it "had curiously curling crescents attached at the hips and the shoulders, giving Ms. Wintour... the fuller-bodied appearance of Botticelli’s Venus on her clamshell." Ah, "curious," not the highest of compliments. Anna could use a break, what with the LeBron James King Kong cover, the Rodarte weight thing, getting dissed by European fashionistas, etc. etc. Sad, pitiable Anna. Laugh (at a few more media celebrities' outfits, starting with Katie Holmes, pictured right) through tears (for sad monster Wintour) after the jump.
The Times said Holmes was "looking perfect," but Fabsugar, even while catching the Superman reference in the outfit, wrote, "hot mess... just too reminiscent of '80s prom."
Here's comedian Sarah Silverman, "wearing a polka-dot teacup skirt from Dolce & Gabbana, paired with filthy black-and-white fingerless knit gloves, which she described as 'flair from my backpack that I bought at one of those mall stores for $9... The woman from Dolce & Gabbana said, "Please don’t wear those." I did.'"
News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch (background, left) with wife Wendi. Australia's The Age: "Love the colours and the fabric... it's the shape that worries me. It's a bit ''tip me over, pour me out."
Designer Marc Jacobs leaving with Sofia Coppola, because if he'd taken a boy it would have just ended in a big pissy fight over three-ways. No one dared to say anything mean about their outfits.
USA Today (ever the fashion source): "Dolce & Gabbana decked out Scarlett Johansson, who made news on Monday when she announced that she and actor Ryan Reynolds were engaged. Although she wasn't flaunting her engagement ring as she walked the carpet holding hands with her designer hosts, it was probably one of the most-talked-about accessories of the evening."
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Scarlett looks cute, but the outfit is pure Steinway Street Salvation Army lingerie department. Nothing new there.
And who embedded the Slinkys in Wintour's dress?
Oh my God!!! Princess Leia!!
Did she dip the golden fleece in platinum and wear it?
@SarahHeartburn: Don't ask me why, but it's like she has some 'inner ear' look going on.
I need to stop hitting the books.
Nitpicky: Miley Cyrus non-scandal thing was in Vanity Fair, not Vogue. Or am I just too thick to not get a slight joke about Anna Wintour controlling everything at Conde Nast?
@SarahHeartburn: via madonna circa the cone bra era@UnstableMabel: @BalknChain: yes, anna is wearing either a sea shell or a larger than life model of the inner ear; same difference
@Darienlake: Egad. Well, you should have seen Graydon's dress.
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: I'm going to stick with the ram's head theory because it amuses me to no end to imagine her tearing across the room and butting an assistant for any perceived insolence, like breathing in her general vicinity.
Did the mice and birds not finish Scarlett's dress?
@BalknChain: well allrighty then. snort.
In order to enter the party, guests had to answer the following questions asked by Ms. Wintour:
1. What is your name?
2. What is your quest?
3. What is the average air velocity of a Swallow carrying coconuts from Europe?
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: hee!
@richardmarxhatesmyhair: neeeeeeeeeee! neeeeeeeeeeee!
I'm not sure that I would want "Boticelli's Venus on my clamshell."
sarah Silverman is doing her famous impression of Julia Allison.
Memo to Benefit Attendees
Anna, go home and change.
Katie, lose the shoes although orange looks good on you.
Sarah, you're actually the cutest of the ones pictured.
Marc, I like that gaunt 12:30 AM shadow look, keep it up.
Scarlett, No. Not. Never. Put down your pencil and go home.
Wendi, hurry and catch up with Anna, you can share a cab and cry together.
At least Anna was one of the few whose dress reflected the Superhero/Fantasy theme. Everyone else took it as another excuse the wear the silky, sparkly, drapey, boring bull shit they always wear. Not even one person wearing a cape!
@BalknChain:
My first thought. Carrie Fisher is ROTFL.
@nightwatchman_flamekeeper: sssssh ... do not speak the name of she whose name must not be spoken
Poor Anna - the collision with that ram must have been pretty painful.
@semiserious: Hey, Sarah is flying up those steps! Even Wonder Women needs a makeover.
@BalknChain: Princess Leia indeed - but it's what she's doing to Anna!
@semiserious: Agreed. An interesting theme wasted. At least Katie gave it go with the mixing of primary colors.
I dig Nuclear Wintour's dress. Not sold on the neckline and the jacket but I know that's what ladies of a certain age often feel obligated to slap on. But it's scultpural. And, yes, a bit cochlear, but that's why it's funky fresh and all that.
Do these ram's horns make me look fat?
(had. to. do. it.)
Anna: You're awesome. I like a dress that looks like it has weapons hidden inside it. Also, way to bring the 80s couture crazy.
Katie: Not awesome.
Sarah: Awesome but I think Ben Affleck is going to stop fucking you if you wear stuff like that.
Sofia and Marc: Love.
Scarlett: Congratulations. It is NOT, however, Swan Lake tonight.
@Lazy Susan: ha! This is very chicken/egg, I think Anna be tearing off people's ears for sport! She just happens to be wearing princess'.
@if_i_only_had_a_heart: guess I'm not the only one seeing a ram look
I actually think Anna Wintour looks awesome. I love the dress. It is avant-garde and it looks awesome on her. Everyone else looks like a pleeb (barring Sofia and Marc, who just look elegant).
ScarJo and Katie need to give up now.
So that BI a couple of weeks ago about the designer who fell off the wagon really was Marc Jacobs.
Didn't Rami from Project runway use those goiter things on his finale dress?
Don't know which member of the Velvet Mafia Wintour crossed... but damn...
Hell of a retaliatory hit last night.
Why isn't anybody working? That's all...
I agree that Anna looks like she's wearing a ram on her hips. But that jacket! Can we blame ALT for this abomination, too?
Also, who the fuck invited Sarah Silverman to the Costume Ball?!
@SarahHeartburn: Since this is now playing in my head today (against my will)...ha!
+ Watch video
@Word salad: Imagine -- a toy with no plastic! That doesn't mess with your head!
I wish Sarah had brought a slinky to go down the steps as she went up them.
much more embarrassing than anna's dress: in the style.com video the captions below lauren hutton read 'lauren bacall'.
on Anna - at least when she sits down, she will have armrests.
on Katie - damn girl, your hair looks just like Anna's. You must run.
And what superheroes are the others trying to be?
Wintour: As if Rei Kawakubo decided to update her "tumor" dress for a blingy Snow White.
@richardmarxhatesmyhair: trick question
Isn't it Anna Wintour's JOB to have fashion sense?
Sofia Coppola's dress looks like a reject from Isabella Rossellini's wardrobe in 'Death Becomes Her.'
Oh, Karl. Were you trying to compliment Jean-Paul Gaultier's 'mermaid' gown for Marion Cotillard? You should've stuck with what you know and just give Anna a couple leather straps to work with. From what I've been told about her, that's more her style anyway.
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