Mary Katrantzou burst onto the scene -- well, for me, anyway -- with Elizabeth Banks' insane patchwork of Dear God No at last year's Met Ball, and has followed it up this time with one of the most confusingly hideous dresses of the night. Feel the pride positively seeping
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I'm actually not sure I buy that people chickened out of punk purely to avoid ridicule or looking overly costumey. Because plenty of people still looked costumey and ridiculous; just in the wrong way, which suggests that a lot of them already knew what larger-than-life silliness
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View the gallery So, there is acreage between "catering to your dramatic whims" and "looking like a crazypants naked and/or upholstered crackpot," and the whole point of the Met Ball is the former, even if you fall on your face doing it (which leads to
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Oh, COME ON: You're supposed to be Gisele Bundchen, not Erin Wasson. Or does this mean you're worried that they're becoming the same thing? [Photo: Getty]
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It's not even that I don't LIKE this, necessarily... ... just that, what party did anyone think this WAS? I get that it's Tommy Hilfiger, and he's the baron of preppy yachting-chic attire, but the Met Ball is not on a boat.
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View the gallery If Linda Evangelista looked like the cover of a book about Lady Jane Grey, fictionalizing that she lived and was whisked away to grow up in hiding in Scotland, or something, so she could come back and claim the throne from a position of strength, then several
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Speaking of people Unclear On the Concept (AKA, two-thirds of the people who showed up at this thing): While everyone else was attending the Met Gala -- well, ostensibly, anyway -- Linda Evangelista was apparently attending her own wedding. At Medieval Times. [Photo: Getty]
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The press release for the outfit described it as "a Gucci Première pale green silk georgette strapless gown with silver and matte black feather motif embroideries [and] layers of black organza that cascade into a dramatic train." Proof positive that sometimes words really can paint a prettier picture
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I fell in love with Kerry Washington a little bit last night. Hilary Rhoda was interviewing her on the livesteam -- and, listen, Hilary Rhoda is lovely, but a gifted celebrity interviewer she is not. Can't they hire Coco for this sort of thing? -- and she mentioned that she
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So, one of the beans has been having occasional night terrors. And now, thanks to this dress, so will I. [Photo: Getty]
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"Wait. Where am I?" "NO. Come on. They told me I was going to the first annual Salute to Gywneth Paltrow's Tom Ford Oscar Dress of 2012. THAT'S WHY I'M WEARING THIS CAPE. I'm going to kill Stella."
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Well, the expression of defiance certainly could qualify as punk. But the Gloria Swanson get-up? Not so much. Then again, Gloria Swanson created an inventions company in New York that was basically a front for helping Jewish scientists and inventors escape Europe during World War II, so she was
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Obviously, I picked this photo because it looks like she's got a tiny traffic cop sitting on her shoulder. Beat THAT, Amanda Bynes: All that being said, I kind of love this on Miley. No, I actually am coming down on totally loving this on Miley. This took
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View the gallery I feel like one of those hackneyed crocheted signs hanging in people's grandparents' doorways: "Bless this mess." For these are indeed a blessed mess, and THANK GOD for that, because messes are the bread and butter of GFY (well, actually, bread and
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In the vein of what I said about Madonna earlier, let's talk about KNOWING YOUR AUDIENCE: One does not wear a Philip Treacy Feather Mohawk Headpiece and velvet tartan thigh-high Louboutins and a crazy ballgown to, say, the premiere of I Don't Know How She
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