Fashion and politics at the Met Gala 2021 / PHOTOS - Lifestyle

Fashion and politics go hand in hand at the Met Gala, back amid ancientvid precautions for the first time since the start of the pandemic: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Puerto Rican congresswoman from Bronx, showed up at the party in a white silk dress and tulle and the writing on the back in blood red "Taxes to the rich". New York deputies and senators are always invited to the "party of the year" without having to pay the $ 35,000 required from other guests, AOC put his hands on anticipating the controversy that promptly arrived in the conservative media. This year the theme was "American Independence" in homage to the exhibition "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion", open to the public for a whole year in the halls of the Costume Institute.American fashion is a patchwork of emotions is the theme, and the guests to the gala - a third than usual to allow for social distancing - each had to interpret a piece.

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Lots of red, white and blue, therefore, and lots of messages of social commitment - former footballer Megan Rapinoe with the "In gay we trust" handbag for LGBQT rights for example - sometimes explained behind the scenes: Billie Eilish, one of the " godmothers "of the evening, she abandoned androgynous looks for one night, transforming herself into a Cinderella at the ball / Marilyn Monroe with a monumental train only on condition that the Oscar de la Renta label abandoned the use of furs forever. The evening and the red carpet (actually it was beige) belonged to Generation Z. Four VIPs "under 26" welcomed the guests: in addition to Eilish, Amanda Gorman, Timothée Chalamet and Naomi Osaka. Joe Biden Settlement Poet,Gorman has transformed into a cobalt blue Lady Liberty signed by Vera Wang and in her hand a book-shaped clutch bag: "Give us your tired" as in the epigraph of the real statue at the entrance to the port of New York. Osaka, fresh from defeat at the US Open, paid tribute to its dual Japanese and Haitian "heritage" with the help of Louis Vuitton, while Chalamet interpreted the theme with a short white silk Alexander Hamilton jacket, jogging pants white and on his feet the Converse that, shortly before the Gala, had brought him to Frick Madison for an Instagram performance with the artist JR. Many sports represented and in particular tennis for which Wintour has a passion and so there were Serena and Venus Williams, Maria Sharapova,the winner of the last Open Emma Raducanu and the Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini. For the gymnast Simone Biles, the stylists of the Area label had created in over six thousand hours of work and with one hundred workers a showgirl dress that, between meters of tulle and Swarovski crystals, weighed almost as much as the girl. Not just young people though. Wintour, the stainless queen of fashion for decades, presented herself in a de La Renta in homage to her friend who passed away ten years ago. Tributes listed in mourning also from Gabrielle Union to the actress and model Cecily Tyson who left us last January at the age of 97 and from Jennifer Hudson to Elber Albez, the Franco-Israeli designer who died in Covid at the beginning of the year. While Kim Kardashian, recognizable only for her curves, in "total black"Balenciaga who also covered her face, conjured up the ghost of a black widow after parting with Kanye West. And if politics and social commitment made their way into the halls of the Met, there was no lack of protests in the square: in front of the museum, before the celebrities arrived, a group of BLM activists gathered: "There is no peace without justice" was the slogan. The arrests followed. (HANDLE).