And sure, it looks like fun, all this theme dressing and sartorial one-upmanship, but it also looks kind of exhausting. For the stylists, and for the women in the clothes.
Where they were once asked to wear their most glamorous gowns for days or weeks on end, on and off planes, from media wall to media wall — now they have to do it better than Margot Robbie and Zendaya.
Method dressing seems to have become a bit of a curse.
It’s the same thing that’s happened with the Met Gala, the annual costume party that sees famous people try to out-dress each other in outfits tailored to the often elusive theme set by Vogue.
Designer Tom Ford famously derided the direction of the event, telling fashion writer Amy Odell in her book Anna: The Biography, “[The Met Gala] used to just be very chic people wearing beautiful clothes going to an exhibition about the 18th century.”
Ford continued, “You didn’t have to look like the 18th century, you didn’t have to dress like a hamburger, you didn’t have to arrive in a van where you were standing up because you couldn’t sit down because you wore a chandelier.”
Amen, Mr Ford.
We have to ask — when does the novelty wear off? How far can the theme dressing go?
Does it end with Blake, or is this just the beginning?
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