Jameela Jamil slams Met Gala for 'selective cancel culture' in passionate post
ok.co.ukJameela Jamil has shared a passionate post about the Met Gala and criticised the fundraiser for opting to pay homage to Karl Lagerfeld.The Met Gala raises cash for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and this year’s theme was Karl Lagerfeld: A Line Of Beauty, with celebrities paying tribute to the late designer, who died in 2019, with their show-stopping ensembles.
But following the coverage of fashion’s biggest night, Jameela, 37, has criticised the star-studded affair.Taking to Instagram, The Good Place star wrote on Tuesday: “Last night Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants, and to sexual assault survivors.
And all the women's publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it." Some of Karl's controversial comments over the years include calling 30% of English women overweight.
Speaking in a Channel 4 documentary in 2012 about if hiring women of different sizes, the acclaimed designer said, as per The Independent: "There are less than one per cent of anorexic girls.
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