Tipping Point

Responses to my musings and questions about the Met Gala

Also in this issue:

• The Sean “Diddy” Combs trial

• Edward Enninful’s new Vogue-like quarterly

• Are diamonds still a girl’s best friend?

Anna-Wintour, and Met Gala Co-Chairs Colman-Domingo andLewis-Hamilton.

We’re a week after the Met Gala unfurled—yes, already!—and here is some of the reader feedback, as well as the results from my little poll in last week’s edition of The Style Files, Famine of Beauty.

First, the poll:

Hmmm…. Wonder if AW’s data people are telling her the same thing?

As for my questions:

• Shouldn’t this exhibition have happened during ALT’s lifetime? With him as a co-curator and co-chair?

  • “I am so with you that this show should have been hosted by André Leon Talley. What an inspiration he was to all of us who love style and fashion.”

  • “Anna’s obsession with ALT’s weight always bothered me and seemed to make it worse for him. I loved his capes and caftans, his way of adorning himself. What he had was appreciation and love for beauty and history.”

  • “It’s incredible how the origin/evolution of the event itself has been erased, and ALT, who I also knew and worked with, was reduced to his Vuitton luggage.”

André Leon Talley at the Met exhibition, “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style.”

• Should May’s Vogue cover image been of Talley? Or at least a second cover, which is common for magazines now?

  • “ALT deserved a cover. The man was a living fashion library.”

  • “Having ALT on this Met Gala Vogue cover would have been classy and meaningful.”

Do we agree with Tom Ford, who complained that the gala had “turned into a costume party,” and said, “I miss the days when people just wore beautiful clothes”?

• “Stunt dressing will run its course and revert back to a more organic interpretation of the theme. No one needs Jared Leto in a Choupette head.”

Jared Leto as Karl Lagerfeld’s cat, Choupette, in 2023.