The Met Gala theme was both boring and out of touch
nypost.comher annual Met Gala should be a short story about wealthy people staving off mobs of plebians. The lavish Upper East Side bash was practically “The Hunger Games,” but with Kim Kardashian.On Monday night, the usual parade of celebrities, billionaires, semi-recognizable faces and trashy social media randos ascended the stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and tried not to trip on their outfits.Mentally, however, everybody stumbled when it came to this year’s dress code: “The Garden of Time” by J.G.
Ballard.The majority of attendees took the extremely boring vines-and-buds route and affixed “florals for spring” frills to their couture frocks and suits, looking like motel shower curtains.Allow me to speculate that almost none of these geniuses actually read the tale that partly inspired the event they scored a coveted ticket to.Because that work of literature is about much more than roses and orchids.Ballard’s 1962 piece concerns a reclusive pair of aristocrats, a count and countess, who live in a palace filled with books and art.
When they are threatened by an advancing rabble, they hold them off by plucking magical time flowers.For countless reasons, this is hilarious.
And breathtakingly out of touch.Predictably on Monday, an actual mob arrived. More than 1,000 anti-Israel protestors chanting “Gaza!” gathered near the glitzy soiree filled with some of the most self-righteous people in America.Did the stars — some of whom wore Palestinian solidarity pins at the Oscars, but this time stuck with daffodils — invite the crowd in for hors d’oeuvres?
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