Jab they met, in the Met Gala wash room!
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Now that the much-talked about Met gala event is done and dusted with and all who attended it are out of their outlandish outfits and back in their comfortable old night gowns, let me share my 2 cents on it. And why should I not? My Fb feed has been bombarded for the past month or so, with unwanted information on exactly how our own SRK has been preparing for it and why should I suffer alone?
For the uninitiated, the Met Gala is an annual gathering of the who's who of celebrities from various walks of life, who converge on the red carpet in Manhattan, in bizarre outfits, one more bizarre than the next. It is touted as the world's most glamourous event, after my son's wedding, that is!
Fine, fine, after the Ambani wedding, ok! Happy?
Invitations to this fashion's biggest night are highly sought after and you and I will never get one anyway, so let's just have fun bitching about it. This year India's fashion and glamour world went into a tizzy with the debut appearance of King Khan on the red carpet, and thanks to my FB feed, I am up to date with the tiniest teeniest detail on SRK's iconic look designed by no less a personage than the celebrity dresser Sabyasachi Mukherjee himself.
SRK owned the red carpet, according to reliable sources. Owned as in, he rocked it, and not that he brought his own carpet from his house. Just clarifying!
Apparently, the Khan was clothed in an all-black ensemble – consisting of a floor length coat made from Tasmanian superfine wool paired with a black silk shirt and black tailored trousers. He axes … asaxx … uff tauba, let me start over, he accessorized it with a layered talisman, a crystal studded 'K' pendant, a diamond brooch and an 18 K gold cane … wait, was it chain? No, cane it is – a gold Bengal tiger-head cane! Hmmm … add a black eye patch and he would have nailed the pirate look, in my opinion.
Eyewitnesses report that his Rs 21 crore watch had its own fan following at the show. Complication watch, indeed. Arre baba … according to me, the entire outfit seemed to be a complication. But who am I to comment? If Ms Anna Vincour approves, then there's nothing more to be said!
Now, you may well ask, who might this Vincour female be? Well, Mama Vincour is the grande dame of the magazine Vogue, and she's in charge of orchestrating the whole event. According to reports, it's all in her hands as to who enters the event on which side of the red carpet and when; who will sit where and next to whom and so on. And if you think one can simply hop onto a plane and land directly on the carpet, think again. The entry ticket for this Met Gala event is a whopping 75,000 US dollars, excluding GST, and chai-paani too, I guess.
Now, you will obviously ask, and so you should, what is this glamour-shamour tamasha for … what is it in aid of. Well, it's a … hold your breath folks, it's a fund raiser in aid of … hold your breath one more time, dears … it's in aid of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in Manhattan.
Don't tell me you've never heard of this Institute. Well, join the club, I never heard of it either, until now.
Meanwhile, a fun fact – the event has a no-selfie rule and to counter this some celeb regulars have started the annual tradition of taking a selfie in the Metropolitan bathroom, yes you heard it right, the wash room, the WC, the His and Hers part of the museum and believe it or not, it's a prestigious thing, to be seen in that selfie!
Now we know why we cannot have a gala event in our country. Can you imagine our celebs posing for a selfie in any of our stinking, blocked, wet, hell-hole of a wash room in India? We dare not pee in one, forget taking a selfie!
Hah!
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