{"id":42459,"date":"2019-05-06T16:18:47","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T20:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=42459"},"modified":"2019-05-06T21:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T01:48:52","slug":"met-gala-2019-preview-from-bitter-party-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/met-gala-2019-preview-from-bitter-party-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Met Gala 2019: Preview From Bitter, Party of One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Met Gala &#8212; the informal name for the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art &#8212; takes place tonight and, as always, I am bitter about not being an invitee.\u00a0 Not because I want to rub elbows with celebrities and billionaires, but because I LOVE theme dressing and I LOVE to shop my closet and if Conde Nast editor and host Anna Wintour really cares about fashion SHE SHOULD LET ME BE GREAT!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/9G3xuelhlGbiyVocla\" width=\"480\" height=\"346\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/love-happy-yes-9G3xuelhlGbiyVocla\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is especially true because so many of the attendees regularly blow their opportunity to let their freak flag fly by dressing for a regular red carpet. The 2013 party, which celebrated the opening of the Met&#8217;s &#8220;Punk: Chaos to Couture,&#8221; exhibit was the recent nadir of Met Gala theme dressing. I managed to find two outfits that lived up to my expectations &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/my-met-gala-winners-are\/\">thank you, Miley Cyrus and Linda Fargo<\/a> &#8212; but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/what-wendy-would-have-worn-to-the-met-gala-w-o-w-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I would have done the full Wendy O. Williams look if given the opportunity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s theme is even closer to my heart than punk. The exhibit, which opens to regular mortals on Thursday, is called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2019\/camp-notes-on-fashion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Camp: Notes on Fashion<\/a>,&#8221; and it examines how &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/listings\/2019\/camp-notes-on-fashion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">irony, humor, parody, pastiche, artifice, theatricality, and exaggeration are expressed in fashion<\/a>.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/i-am-the-queen-of-this-met-gala-theme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They&#8217;re just throwing it in my face at this point.<\/a> I mean, my peeps, I wore this dress in public for a New Year&#8217;s Eve dinner I hosted because I thought it was highlarious.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42464\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/what-wendy-wore-new-years-eve-hostess-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42464\" class=\"wp-image-42464 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/deets-588x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/deets-588x1024-1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/deets-588x1024-1-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/deets-588x1024-1-300x522.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/center>I&#8217;ve worn this vintage Moschino to more than one fashion-industry event.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42466\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/what-wendy-wore-word-up-at-ifb\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moschinodress_1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moschinodress_1024-1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moschinodress_1024-1-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/moschinodress_1024-1-300x512.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for 2010 post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/center>When I actually did go to a celebrity-heavy party, I wore another vintage Moschino.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42467\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/on-the-town-pre-oscar-party-in-los-angeles\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42467\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42467\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vip.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vip.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vip-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/vip-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42467\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for my original 2011 post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not everyone appreciates my taste. I still brood over the way a very high-fashion person once described my vintage dollar-bill printed dress as a &#8220;novelty item.&#8221; (I wonder if that person described Balenciaga&#8217;s dollar print &#8212; seen on the runway in 2017 &#8212; in the same tone of voice.)<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42468\" style=\"width: 508px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/quiltyyyyyyy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42468\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dressjacketcrop-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"748\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dressjacketcrop-682x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dressjacketcrop-682x1024-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/dressjacketcrop-682x1024-300x451.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42468\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for original 2016 post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>From some advance photos I&#8217;ve seen, it looks like both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/the-floofiest-of-the-floof\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">floof<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?s=%22butt+bows%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">butt bows<\/a> feature in the &#8220;Camp&#8221; exhibit, so I finally have something in common with Kanye West: Feeling like an underappreciated visionary. All I can say that if next year&#8217;s Met Gala theme is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/what-wendy-wore-bendels-ruffles-for-an-ear-piercing\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ruffles<\/a>,&#8221; I will know this is a personal attack and IT&#8217;S ON, BITCHES!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, stay tuned for my post on the 2019 Met Gala&#8217;s Best Dressed\/Wear What You Want winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Met Gala &#8212; the informal name for the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art &#8212; takes place tonight and, as always, I am bitter about not being an invitee.\u00a0 Not because I want to rub elbows with celebrities and billionaires, but because I LOVE theme dressing and I LOVE to shop&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/met-gala-2019-preview-from-bitter-party-of-one\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,650,550],"tags":[1695,614],"class_list":["post-42459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","category-uncategorized","category-met-gala-2","category-vintage-wendyb-photos","tag-camp-notes-on-fashion","tag-costume-institute","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Met Gala -- the informal name for the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art -- takes place tonight and, as always, I am bitter about not being an invitee. 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