Let Them Eat Cake - The 2024 Met Gala

[Alejo]

Fashion has always pushed the idea we have about how the human body looks like (corsets, crinolines, high heels, etc. or the tight, tight jackets, or the wigs they dressed in in the romance novels ), and maybe it is just that the lens through which I look on the world around me has changed so much that I see ill intent in the design of clothing, but many of the dresses made me feel uneasy.

I agree with this, so you may be onto something, but, and this might be a stretch so bear with me, I think there's a place where fashion and comedy connect.

Fashion that works to enhance something takes into consideration the rest of humanity, I think even initially, to cover ourselves from the elements and in the presence of others for decency takes into consideration that relationship of the self, with the other, and comedy does as well, it's not just what I find funny.. but how do I convey that mirth to someone else, which requires me to think of someone other than myself, and what they know and what they understand.

What we see with fashion these days, is that it's not answering any question that includes anyone else, it's simply answering the question of "how do I stand out the most amongst these people?" it's self serving and so much so.. that it looks impractical and non relatable, and it eventually becomes scandalous and despicable, because the only way to stand out is shock. Where I think other fashion could have an element of decorating the human body, which could be vain maybe, in a way that also considers that body and person, in a social context where this body needs to interact in ways that considers the rest of humanity. Where maybe it was meant to be appealing and flattering, but also not insulting, nor isolating.

I hope that makes sense, because I do think there's a creative aspect to fashion design, and there's a recognition of beauty in clothing and what we create, cars, motorcycles, architecture and so on, that speaks to us which is why we wear some things and not some others, but that's not what we see at the MET gala, the met gala speaks to no one, and it's as far away from beautiful as it gets, despite the clear craftsmanship and the vanity.

 

[maiko]

Interesting line of thought @Alejo. And I think so, too, fashion can be a great vehicle for comedic expression (just think clown costumes with the big shoes). And I like the connection to others you drew. The aspect of considering the people around you. I think this consideration is why fashion is using codes. To give us some sort of context to put the person wearing something in. And the great thing is we use this codes and play with them to create something else, like comedy.

What we see in a lot of the dresses and men's wear at the Met Gala feels to me like breaking established codes, and that is what maybe leaves me with the uneasy feeling.

Some of the dresses and accessories are ephemeral (as mentioned above) and that is to me a bit like ephemeral art, it is fleeting in nature, with no lasting, no inspiring message. It is self-serving in its exclusiveness. I feel beauty often speaks to us or inspires us because in one way or another it is always based in a collective experience. We learn from and build on what came before us, and even artistes tapping into something else have this basis that allows us to connect with their work. I can't see that in many of the costumes at the Met Gala.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

 

[Alana]

Art, in all its forms, is a reflection of the era it springs from, and from the people that produce it. But the opposite can be also true. Arts can be used to change the image the audience sees, as in: "if that is reflected back to me, then that's what I must be". There is beauty being created even now, somewhere by someone, but what we get to see is what the PTB want us to see. They put their own "faces" in front of our own, Met Gala and Eurovision being notable examples, in their wish that we become like them and accept their inhumanity/satanic perversions as normal. The worse their displays get though, the more reaction there will be by a large part of humanity, I think, and we've already seen some of it.

To add insult to injury, the 75K dollars a ticket and the insane exhibition of affluence is in grotesque discordance to the real issues the majority of people are facing day in and day out: unaffordable food, housing, health, education, etc. Salaries are going down, while the price of everything else goes up. Weather conditions leave so many homeless, force them to migrate. There is an actual genocide happening in broad daylight, the worst seen for generations, that is weighing on all our consciences. There's crime and drug abuse, mental illness, people dying left and right after being convinced that the poison they got injected with was good for them, and on and on and on.

I don't know where it is all going but through their own suffering and witnessing the suffering of others, I see that a lot of people are slowly waking up to some realization that something sinister is going on and their distrust of those in power grows. But will that open them up to accepting whoever new "saviours" come along, in the form of higher-intellince non-terrestial beings? This is something I have been wondering since I began observing that the PTB plans seem to turn more and more of the population against them. And if I hadn't known anything about Laura's work/4D STS and I had to choose between our current elites/leaders and anyone else, I'd choose the latter.

 

[Alejo]

I don't know where it is all going but through their own suffering and witnessing the suffering of others, I see that a lot of people are slowly waking up to some realization that something sinister is going on and their distrust of those in power grows. But will that open them up to accepting whoever new "saviours" come along, in the form of higher-intellince non-terrestial beings? This is something I have been wondering since I began observing that the PTB plans seem to turn more and more of the population against them. And if I hadn't known anything about Laura's work/4D STS and I had to choose between our current elites/leaders and anyone else, I'd choose the latter.

That's a very interesting thought, to make the previous guy look awful to come in with salvation and trick everyone else into welcoming you with open arms.