SYMONE: was "Pastel Pinup." I was looking through images, but wasn't really connecting with any of them because, yeah, they were in there, but there weren't that many women of color. Tell me about how you arrived at creating that look. I was shook! I didn't know she was nice with wigs like that! Then, I read the credits and found out Gigi had done the wig for you. I immediately thought of a hairstyle Nikki Nelms created for an Allure shoot. The Gala has been used in the past as a platform for headline makers to make political statements.ALLURE: Now, we have to get into some of the hair looks you've served. However, the missed opportunity further highlights how out of touch with reality certain aspects of the lifestyle industry are. The absence of drag queens at the Met Gala this year isn’t on him. Lagerfeld celebrated drag queens in his own way, shooting Austrian drag queen and singer Conchita Wurst in 2017 for Carine Roitfeld’s CR Fashion Book. Buzzfeed did a piece on the looks from Met Gala 2023 that Lagerfeld would have likely hated, and Pedro Pascal features on it. However, he was also bigoted, known for making derogatory remarks against immigrants, fat people, and sexual assault survivors. The late German designer and photographer was revolutionary in the world of fashion-he revived Chanel’s relevancy in the 1980s when he took over as creative director, with attention to detail via extravagant storytelling and innovative designs, including a reinvention of the classics. One of the many criticisms of Met Gala 2023 was the choice of Karl Lagerfeld as the ‘theme’. American actress wore a pinstriped Pyer Moss suit with the reminder “Black drag queens invented camp”. The same year RuPaul walked the carpet, and faced a bit of a puzzled reaction to the suit he chose to wear, as opposed to using the opportunity to flaunt the extravagant creativity of drag fashion. This is particularly telling especially since in 2019, when the theme was ‘Camp’, Violet Chachki and Aquaria made history by being the first drag queens to be invited to the Met Gala. “I genuinely think i f drag queens are invited to the Met the other people’s games will be over! Name one star who does their own hair and makeup, makes their own outfits, styles it, except the drag queens! It’s sad that for a fashion event there were no drag queens on the red carpet!” says Glorious Luna, who adds they would have loved to see V iolet Chachki, Ru Paul, Shasha Colby, and Shasha Velour express themselves at this year’s Met Gala. So much so that The Cut published a piece last autumn of how ‘drag queens are the new VIPs of fashion week’, citing Symone sitting on the front row at Carolina Herrera. Not to mention the over the top expression of fashion. A once marginalized and ostracised group helped us embrace facets of our personality we never thought we had. Contouring, lace wigs, lashes, perfectly groomed brows. So much of what we do today in makeup is actually what we have picked up from drag queens-the joyful use of colour cosmetics. The opulence of a Met Gala lends itself so organically to the art of drag. It would’ve been nice to see them represented on fashion’s biggest stage, and for industry leaders to support them given the relentless political attacks this year.” “Drag queens have always and continue to push the boundaries of what’s next in fashion and beauty. “It does suck that there were zero drag queens invited to the Met Gala,” he wrote. The marked absence of drag queens at the Gala. Keeping aside the debate of whether Lagerfeld needs to be cancelled without taking into account his contribution to fashion, there was another glaring bit that queer makeup artist Shantanu Dhope pointed out on their Instagram story.
But hey, it’s fashion and glamour, and we all need to be distracted from real world problems, so why not. And then there’s a night of uber glamour, the MET gala, of a bunch of privileged folks paying an homage to a no doubt talented but highly problematic figure. We missed Drag Queens at The Met Gala 2023įashion’s most opulent night perhaps missed some key figures-the drag queens by Rituparna SomĪ cost of living crisis, climate change clamours, a not so looming recession, mass layoffs, refugee crises-are just a few of the issues the world is living with.
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