After a two-year hiatus, the Met Gala has officially returned. The event is typically held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on the first Monday in May, though it was postponed to second Monday night in September because of Covid concerns. Those included on the exclusive celebrity guest list, presided over by Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour, turn out in over-the-top thematic fashion statements to raise money for the museum’s Costume Institute.
The names and attire of those in attendance are always the focus of attendance, and this year’s gala has stayed true to form. What has been different, however, is the type of celebrities who made the cut — and the backlash they’ve triggered.
All of the co-hosts at this year’s event are Gen Z for the first time in the gala’s history: pop star Billie Eilish, actor Timothée Chalamet, tennis player Naomi Osaka and poet Amanda Gorman. While this generational shake-up was widely welcomed, as the cohosts are all respected in their fields, some of the other Gen Z invitees were greeted with scorn. Particularly the social media influencers whose names cropped up along with the traditional A-List movie stars and musicians rumored to be guests on video app TikTok. (Tradition has it that no one’s attendance is confirmed ahead of the big event.)
The critics questioned whether the invitations to influencers like Addison Rae, who gained prominence through dancing and reality TV appearances, deserved a spot given the perception that she and...
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