Just Send the Met Gala to the Consignment Store of History Already

MET DECLINE AND FALL

This isn’t the crown jewel of the social calendar. It’s a tone-deaf, live-streamed, cursed spectacle of all that’s worst about fashion.

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Anna Wintour and Sean Diddy Combs in a photo collage in front of the 2025 Met Gala
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty

Once the crown jewel of fashion’s social calendar, the Met Gala has officially devolved into a pageant of Pick Me energy—an orgy of try-hard looks and desperate influencer posing, now dominated by the TikTok generation’s endless thirst for attention.

This year’s theme, “Black Dandy,” was chosen with all the subtlety of...

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