The Best and WORST Met Gala Looks

0:00 All right, my friends.

0:01 It is officially the first Tuesday in May,

0:03 which means that yesterday was the first Monday in May,

0:05 which means that the Met Gala took place.

0:07 Now, I will be releasing a video talking

0:09 about the Bezos's being sponsors of the event,

0:12 the protests that took place, the celebrities literally like melting down,

0:15 wiping their crocodile tears,

0:17 about the Bezos's being involved with their millions and millions

0:19 of dollars because they're also part of the 1%.

0:22 Anyway, I'm going to be talking about that, but I

0:23 did want to dedicate an entire episode to the fashion because

0:27 I was trying to incorporate that into the other video

0:29 and it just got longer and longer and longer and longer.

0:32 So, I decided that we should just do a separate one.

0:34 So, that is what we are doing here today.

0:35 Now, I posted about this on my Instagram,

0:37 but I do have to come clean because in the episode that I filmed yesterday,

0:40 I was just having one of those days.

0:41 The baby has been waking up like every 2 hours.

0:44 I had no desire to try to look nice,

0:46 so I was wearing this like oversized Free People shley shirt.

0:49 I'm like surprised that my mom did not text me and say,

0:51 "What are you wearing?" But because I am critiquing fashion today,

0:54 I'm trying a bit harder.

0:55 So, I rented this like cold Gaia shirt from North Runway.

0:58 It felt appropriate.

0:59 Anyway, let's dive into this.

1:00 So, the theme for this year's MetGala was fashion is art.

1:04 So, I pulled up a description of that here.

1:06 Galagers, that's me.

1:08 Galaawkers can expect to see the bodies treated as works

1:11 of art and garments paying homage to famous paintings and sculptures.

1:14 So basically my read on this theme was that it could

1:18 either be you know these really elaborate outfits that are pieces

1:21 of art in and of themselves which I mean all fashion unless

1:24 it's like a t-u dress of course is you know a form

1:27 of art but something that is maybe sculptural or crazy or innovative

1:30 and very artistic in and of itself or like this article

1:33 said is paying homage to a different piece of art is

1:35 trying to translate a famous piece of art into a fashion sense.

1:39 Anyway, that was my take on this and so I want to show you guys just a Tik Tok.

1:43 This is kind of like an overview of some of the choices

1:46 that people made and then we are going to get into my favorites

1:48 and my least favorites and then the very end we have

1:50 a treat because we did finally find the most oppressed person in America.

1:54 Unsurprisingly, she was at the medalist.

1:56 All right.

1:56 So again, that Tik Tok was just kind of a teaser.

1:58 I wanted to put us all on a level playing field.

2:00 Again, fashion is art.

2:01 You saw a couple examples there and the things

2:03 that they were taking from art history as inspiration.

2:05 So that is what we are dealing with today.

2:07 Now, in regards to the mech gala, I feel like there are usually two categories.

2:12 There are people who really fit the theme.

2:13 They go all out.

2:14 Like this is stuff that they would never wear at the Oscars

2:17 that you probably would not even see on a runway.

2:19 It's so outlandish and crazy, but it really fits with whatever the theme is.

2:22 Whether it is fashion is art or whatever the like animatronic like

2:26 there was some like robot thing a few years ago or camp,

2:28 whatever that meant that was just like insane.

2:30 And then there are people who just look lovely and they might fit the theme,

2:34 but they look beautiful.

2:35 Like they look great.

2:37 It's a good PR move for them.

2:38 The photos are lovely.

2:40 They present themselves well.

2:41 And I do find that it is rare for people to do both.

2:44 Like people either go so far with the theme or they

2:47 play it safe and they just wear a nice dress.

2:48 They're just, you know, showing up and walking the carpet.

2:51 But I do think that there were three this time

2:52 in my mind that did succeed to reach both of those categories.

2:56 So my best dress of the entire night was not some big Hollywood celebrity,

3:00 was not a fashion designer.

3:01 It was actually a YouTuber.

3:03 It was the girl that I grew up watching on YouTube who actually inspired me.

3:07 like her videos inspired the way that I

3:09 created comment section and the editing style.

3:11 It was Emma Chamberlain who now like I she kind of scares me to be honest.

3:14 Like I don't even recognize her anymore.

3:16 Especially her fashion sense is just a bit out there for me.

3:19 But she was the very first person

3:21 on the carpet because she always does interviews for Vogue.

3:23 So she walked first and then she stands up

3:24 at the top and talks to people and they're really cute.

3:26 But she took inspiration from Van Go and Edward Munch's paintings.

3:29 I believe like their style of painting.

3:31 She looked insane and I feel like she definitely got a tip about what the red

3:36 carpet and the steps were going to look like because she just fit so perfectly.

3:39 The dress is insane.

3:40 It looks like it is literally brush strokes all over her body.

3:44 It's beautiful.

3:44 I hate that kind of makeup and I don't love her hair.

3:47 Again, it just kind of scares me.

3:48 I feel like I'm like she's like staring into my soul.

3:51 So, I don't love that aspect of it,

3:52 but just like kind of cutting off her head there and just looking at the dress.

3:55 I mean, she looked amazing.

3:57 She ate down the dress was iconic.

3:59 I also loved Gracie Abrams.

4:00 I also just like love her as a singer and a performer.

4:02 But apparently with her dress,

4:03 she was paying homage to the painter Gustaf Climpmp.

4:06 This specifically is the painting that they were pulling from.

4:09 I think her dress is just stunning.

4:11 Like it kind of looks Egyptian in a way.

4:13 It's regal.

4:14 It's beaded.

4:15 It's sparkly.

4:16 She looks stunning.

4:17 I appreciate even though she kind of has

4:19 like some like ompic hollowedness to her face,

4:21 which I feel like just every celebrity does right now.

4:23 Like she does not have the weird raccoon eyes, which is great.

4:25 And I'm probably also partial to this look

4:27 because I do just like Clipped as a artist.

4:29 I love that he has that famous painting, the kiss.

4:32 So anyway, I loved that one.

4:33 Now, I also loved tech entrepreneur.

4:35 Her name is Mona Patel.

4:37 She walked the carpet.

4:38 Her dress was inspired by Da Vinci and the Vuvian man.

4:42 I had no idea who this woman was.

4:44 This might have been her first time

4:46 at the Met and she just absolutely crushed it.

4:48 But this dress, I mean, guys, it is just stunning.

4:50 So, those are the three that I loved.

4:52 I thought that they actually looked beautiful,

4:55 like they could walk a red carpet in this and it would be,

4:57 you know, exceptional and lovely.

4:59 It fit them really well and they also, in my opinion, were very on theme.

5:03 But more importantly, obviously, because it's the first Tuesday in May,

5:07 I need to tell you about the looks that I hated.

5:09 And there were so many of them.

5:11 And I do have to say many of the looks

5:13 that I hated coincided with people that I don't like.

5:15 So, it was kind of perfect.

5:16 All right, so we're going to start with Carly Clauss.

5:18 Now, I really don't have any feelings about Carly Claus.

5:21 So, this is not, you know,

5:21 me being inspired by not liking her, but you just need to see this dress.

5:26 So, somebody posted this video and said it is giving nut sack.

5:32 And unfortunately, that's not an inaccurate description.

5:35 Now, if that is, you know, too much of an inappropriate descriptor for you,

5:39 if you love dairy like me, then this might be more up your alley.

5:42 But somebody commented and said,

5:43 "She looks like mozzarella." But she really does.

5:45 Like, regardless, she was certainly looking balls directly in the eye.

5:48 If you know, you know.

5:49 It's like a whole meme from the time that she

5:52 walked the red carpet for camp at the Met Gala.

5:54 Anyway, moving on from that, moving on to my next thing.

5:56 Heidi Clume.

5:57 Heidi Clume, I don't even know.

5:59 She was taking inspiration from a sculpture, the Veiled Maiden,

6:05 but she didn't just take inspiration, she became the bus.

6:08 And that kind of feels like cheating to me.

6:10 Like the designer was just like, "Here you are.

6:12 you are going to be the sculpture, which is cool in and of itself,

6:15 but if you're trying to merge fashion and art

6:17 and take inspiration from it and, you know,

6:19 make something that is sculptural but is not an actual sculpture

6:22 where her face is not like fully covered by plaster or plastic,

6:26 whatever is happening here.

6:27 Like again, this just feels like the easy way out.

6:29 But also, who's surprised?

6:30 It's Heidi Clume.

6:31 She hosts the most famous Halloween party in America in Hollywood.

6:35 It's always the most insane out-ofpocket thing.

6:38 She's like worming on the red carpet as like a caterpillar,

6:40 whatever weird thing she did a few years ago.

6:42 So, not surprised.

6:43 A lot of people are saying, "Oh, it's so amazing.

6:45 She took it so seriously." It just felt like the easy way out in my opinion.

6:49 Next on my list was the star of the TV show I Love LA.

6:55 I don't even know what to say about this.

6:57 I don't know what the inspiration was.

7:00 There's a lot going on here that I really hate.

7:02 I almost want to say it's like straight out of some kid show.

7:06 It's like a Blues Clues freaking looking outfit.

7:08 It's just so odd.

7:09 Weird.

7:10 Colors.

7:10 Looks animated.

7:11 I don't even have words, so we're just going to move on from that.

7:13 But that was an assault on my eyes.

7:15 So, next up on the list, we have Cardi B looking like the fatty

7:19 tumor that we surgically removed from my old dog, Olly, before he died.

7:23 That is all I have to say about that.

7:24 Next, we have a trio of red dresses that really sent me into orbit,

7:28 like I was on a Blue Origin flight.

7:30 And it was really like all of these designers

7:32 hated the women that they were dressing.

7:34 And it's interesting that they were all in red dresses.

7:36 I love a red dress.

7:37 I feel like red is like a slimming, sexy, fun color.

7:41 These dresses are none of those things.

7:43 So, this was an assault on the women wearing them,

7:45 assault on my eyes, and an assault on the color red.

7:48 So, first of all, Lena Dunham.

7:50 Lena Donna.

7:51 Somebody posted this and said, "Mesnalus, which is really perfect.

7:55 Also, what are those shoes again?

7:57 Are we are we in 2012?

7:59 Why do we have the studs?

8:01 Why is it up your ankle in that way?

8:02 Why do you have bruises on your legs?

8:05 Could I offer you some lotion?

8:08 Some panty hose to cover it up.

8:09 Like this is just not it's not working.

8:12 Nothing about this is working.

8:13 And also, if you saw it from the side, IT WAS JUST LIKE, OH.

8:17 SO, ANYWAY, THAT'S the first red dress.

8:19 Feel like I really hammered it on Lena Dunham, but it's Linda Dunham.

8:21 She kind of deserves it.

8:22 Anyway, moving on.

8:23 Now, this one did hurt my soul a little bit

8:25 because I do love this girl and we all fell

8:28 in love with her over the Winter Olympics and then I

8:30 saw her on the red carpet and I WAS LIKE, WHAT?

8:31 WHY DID THIS person do this to America sweetheart?

8:34 So, this is Alyssa Leu, American Sweetheart.

8:37 She is the Olympic gold medalist, and they put her in this.

8:40 Again, what era are we in?

8:42 Like, this is the kind of dress that I wanted to wear to homecoming in 2015.

8:46 The shoes are weird.

8:48 It It's like the waist is too high, but maybe also too low.

8:52 Like, it's like it either needs to be like right

8:53 up at the boobs or like at her actual waist.

8:56 It just does nothing.

8:57 And obviously, she has her striped hair, which is very cool,

9:00 but I feel like maybe we could have leaned into that edgginess.

9:03 It seems like her hair is very out of place here.

9:05 Like they really didn't think about her and what

9:08 she represents and her personality and her actual style.

9:10 It's like they just pulled this off the rack again from like 2015 homecoming.

9:13 What's that brand that everybody would wear to homecoming and prom,

9:17 not Sally something.

9:19 Oh my gosh.

9:19 Let me look it up.

9:20 Sherry Hill.

9:21 Sherry Hill.

9:22 I guarantee there is a red high low dress

9:25 on Cherry Hill that one of you out there wore

9:27 to prom or homecoming and now it is

9:29 on the Met Gala red carpet and that is an assault.

9:32 It is a betrayal to Alyssa Leu.

9:34 She deserved better.

9:35 Now, in keeping with the red dresses and athletes, this was also an atrocity.

9:40 This is Serena Williams.

9:42 There is so much wrong here.

9:45 I don't know why I am seeing your booty cheeks.

9:48 Also, she's wearing Louis Vuitton, which have the red bottoms,

9:51 and I think that she thought maybe it would work with the red dress,

9:53 but the dress with all the sequins, it photographs orange.

9:56 So, she has orange and red, and then it just looks cheap.

10:00 Like, we see the inside.

10:01 We see the entirety of the inside of your dress and it's

10:05 like hemmed kind of odd and the inside looks like cheap fab.

10:08 It's every part of this is just weird.

10:10 It feels a little bit too tight.

10:11 Like if you're going to cinch yourself

10:13 into a dress like really like yank it tight,

10:16 you know, you're sucking in so that you can get it up.

10:18 You want to look slim and chic.

10:20 You should not have cutouts on the back.

10:22 Like I think that's just a lesson for all of us women to consider.

10:24 If it's going to be slim, think about what could be spilling out over the top.

10:29 That's not saying that you look bad.

10:31 That's not saying, "Oh, you're fat,

10:32 whatever." That's just if you want the slimming effect,

10:35 maybe it she'd be slimmed all over.

10:37 This was again betrayal.

10:39 I think that this designer might hate her.

10:41 Straight to jail.

10:42 I don't even know if she had a designer.

10:43 Like, honestly, it looks like she picked this up at Fashion

10:46 Nova on the way to go clubbing in Hotlanta to be honest.

10:49 So, I'm done.

10:50 All right.

10:50 Now, another notable look that I feel like might be relevant for you guys,

10:53 you might be interested in, was Rachel Zgler's.

10:55 Now, this look was inspired by Lady Jane

10:58 Gray and the art that was surrounding her execution, which you can see here.

11:01 There's a famous oil painting, the execution of Lady Jane Gay.

11:04 And this was really interesting to me.

11:05 Now, I don't love the dress.

11:08 Like, the corset in the front is a bit odd.

11:10 It looks sort of like wedding dress, but like it's on backwards and a bit cheap.

11:14 It's like the style of wedding dress that I don't really love.

11:16 No offense, but just my own personal style.

11:18 So, that's what she is wearing.

11:20 But what I think is more interesting is the message

11:22 behind her choice of this painting and this inspiration

11:25 because it seems like she was trying to make

11:27 a statement about her career and her controversies.

11:29 And so I obviously because I've commented on all of them and I was, you know,

11:33 inserted in them at one point, I think that it is relevant that I talk about it.

11:36 But as a teenager, Lady Jane Gray,

11:37 who was a real person, was executed in the 1500s,

11:40 I think the early 1500s as a scapegoat

11:42 for the Protestant rebellion that her father was leading.

11:45 So it was this Protestant uprising.

11:47 The crown, the government was threatened by it.

11:49 the Catholic government was threatened by it.

11:51 And as I understand it, this young woman,

11:52 I think that she was 17 at the time, she refused to convert to Catholicism.

11:55 And people kind of made her a figurehead

11:57 for the movement that her father had started.

11:59 And so, as a result, she and her husband were publicly executed.

12:02 They were used as an example.

12:03 And her father was executed just a couple of days later,

12:06 but she was executed to make a statement.

12:08 And I think her choosing to have this piece

12:11 of art in the story be the inspiration for her look was maybe pointing to what

12:15 happened to her with Disney and Snow White.

12:17 And even though I do think that as an individual she is insufferable and she

12:21 deserves a lot of what came

12:22 to her just because of her attitude about everything,

12:24 I do think that her maybe connecting to the story is fair because, you know,

12:29 we have that now infamous video about her, you know,

12:31 talking on the red carpet with Galado.

12:33 You know, she's not going to fall for the prince.

12:35 No, she's not going to fall for she's not chasing love.

12:37 She's chasing female empowerment, whatever it is.

12:39 Really, you know, snubbing the original Snow White,

12:42 the story of love and romance, all of the things.

12:44 You know, to be fair,

12:45 Rachel Ziggler was only paring the talking points that Disney

12:48 had given her based on the movie that they,

12:50 you know, had written and were producing, had green lit,

12:53 that they hired her to lead it and represent this new Snow White story.

12:57 Like, she was not just pulling that stuff out of her ass.

12:59 And yet, she was blamed in a lot of ways for all of it.

13:01 And yes, Disney suffered massively.

13:04 The entire movie was a flop.

13:05 It really caused them to change course in regards

13:07 to how they were doing these, you know, adaptations.

13:09 But in a lot of ways, looking back at that story,

13:11 Disney let Rachel Zgler, you know, hang out to dry.

13:14 They let her fall on the sword.

13:16 And so maybe this is her commentary about all of that.

13:19 Maybe she can't really talk about it.

13:20 Maybe she doesn't really want to cuz she

13:21 feels like it'll just ruin her life once again.

13:23 But maybe this is her saying, "Hey, I was used as a scapegoat.

13:26 My life was ruined.

13:27 I was publicly, you know, tarred and feathered and hung for something that you

13:30 chose to do that wasn't just about me.

13:32 Yes, I was involved in it, but I was the one who had to take the fall." So,

13:36 I do think that that is really interesting.

13:37 It adds, you know, some cool layers, some tea to her look.

13:40 And while I do think, this is where it gets difficult.

13:42 While I do think that that is a really unique and interesting take on the theme,

13:45 any goodwill that I could offer Rachel Ziggler was

13:48 thwarted by what she did on the red carpet.

13:50 Like, I just there is I cannot and will not support this.

13:54 You need to look at her facial expressions.

14:01 She's fine, guys.

14:07 I mean, is she doing like jaw strengthening exercises?

14:10 This is insane.

14:11 Like, and I get that, you know,

14:12 she's trying to get the perfect look on the red carpet,

14:14 but you can get the right picture without doing this.

14:17 Like, you are not helping the accusations that you are full of yourself.

14:21 Like, is that hot now?

14:22 Is that what people are doing to look attractive is just like jaw mobility?

14:27 I liked this part where she was like, "Ooh,

14:30 cannot take it seriously." So, I get what you were trying to say,

14:33 but unfortunately once I saw you in action, you dropped low on my totem pole.

14:37 Anyway, guys, I know that I've gone over

14:39 some of the looks and that sort of thing,

14:40 but I do want to end on this note because possibly the greatest revelation,

14:45 the greatest content to come out of the 2026 Met Gala was this post right here.

14:50 And I want you guys to know that after what has it been,

14:53 a decade or so, we have finally

14:56 reached the final boss of intersectionality and wokeism.

14:59 Right here, look at this post.

15:01 Aaron Rose Phillip arriving at the Met Gala.

15:04 First black transgender woman with quadripolgic

15:08 cerebopaly signed to a major agency.

15:10 Breaking barriers with every step.

15:13 This is what real representation looks like?

15:16 I mean, how can anybody compete

15:18 with that black transgender woman quadripollegic cereble paly model?

15:23 Now, I would say that it's breaking barriers with every role,

15:27 but we don't need to get specific here.

15:28 But anyway, the point I'm trying to make by bringing

15:30 this up is that we can just pack it up.

15:32 Honestly, we're done.

15:33 I mean, no one can compete with that.

15:34 We have found the most oppressed person

15:37 of the most oppressed group in the world.

15:39 And of course, he she was at the Met Gala because

15:43 that is where the oppressed people that deserve all of our support,

15:47 that is where they go.

15:48 The LGBTQ community, the quadripollegics, obviously,

15:51 if you are the most oppressed person, YOU HAVE TO BREAK ALL BARRIERS.

15:54 You're going to be at the Met Gala.

15:55 So, now we can all act accordingly.

15:57 We have solved this age-old progressive mystery.