» Celebrities Might be Barred from Next Year's Met Gala
The next Costume Institute Gala is over ten months away, but the fashion media is reporting on it in earnest. May as well fuss over it now, because, according to Fashion Week Daily, there could be much less to fuss over when it actually happens! For the event may not uphold its standing as the Oscars of the East Coast in 2010. Supposedly, next year’s fund-raiser will be far less boldface. Insiders say the guest list will consist mostly of people who may not be famous, but are able to cough up the cash for full-price tickets…And then there are people like Michael Gross, who wrote Rogues’ Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money That Made the Metropolitan Museum and argues the celebrity-driven party makes the museum lowbrow.
I hope that this is a sign of things to come. I am so sick of celebrities driving every magazine, event, dinner, and opening. I feel as if it’s to the point that if there was no one famous there, it didn’t happen.
I mean, what does Reese Witherspoon have to do with fashion that is putting her on the cover of Elle? It’s not that I don’t appreciate her as an entertainer and actress, but she doesn’t make the most exciting fashion choices (in my opinioni) to even be considered for such an honor. What did Blake Lively and Leighton Meester do to be relevant enough to be at the Met Costume Ball this year? Did they purchase their tickets? Donate to the Museum? Even own their outfits? Probably not, but there they were, posing for the pictures and enjoying thier evenings respectively.
It’s not that I don’t want people to attend these events, but it really gets under my skin that there are certain people, who happen to have a career in the movies, attend these functions for free while there are trustees and donors, who work tirelessly for the cause of art, who get no recognition whatsoever.
I guess all I’m really trying to say is that the oversaturation of celebrity culture is getting mindnumbingly boring and hopefully, the raising of the standards at this event will catch on like wildfire* for future events.
*I am aware that there are plenty of high-profiled people who attend these events and donate to the arts and believe in these institutions, and I am not referring to them. Just a clarification.
