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Sydney Morning Herald
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
50 Shades of Green: Anthony Pratt slays the Met Gala red carpet
We can now say with confidence that cardboard-box recycling billionaire Anthony Pratt at the Met Gala was easily this weekend's most successful Green. Not because of any affiliation with the troubled environmental political party, but because the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries served an arresting, green-themed look at the Met Gala fundraiser that we describe as clashing in confidence. CBD loves a clashing print (heck, any sort of clash is good copy). So we were pleased to see Pratt's suit teamed with the green theme and heroes the 'Pratt 100% Recycled' decals that were such a feature of last year's Met Gala Willy Wonka pink suit. Pratt repeated the mix of lime, green and lemon decals on a bright green shirt and tie, in contrasting styles so bold they risked triggering our photopsias. Pratt offset his two-piece suit with a dark-green hat and cane. But he swapped out last year's Balenciaga runners for more sensible Brooks sneakers, potentially sourced from the House of Rupert Murdoch. Throwing together the fashion fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – world's silliest 'look at me' event – with a billionaire's concept of fashion invokes CBD trepidation. Clearly, the event's theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' was a tricky and ultimately impossible brief for the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries, who went solidly for 50 Shades of Green despite his personal colour palette not screaming 'spring'. Pratt, who now has a US green card and has an honorary title of Kentucky Colonel, was accompanied by his sister and Visy deputy chair Fiona Geminder. The family wealth is put at $25 billion. The pair's last big social function mentioned in dispatches was a lavish Visy party in March for the packaging industry and clients in a massive marquee at the Pratt family mansion of Raheen in Melbourne's Kew. Air Supply and DJ Mark Ronson performed, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flew all the way from Sydney just to give a short speech. Peter Dutton was an apology.
The Age
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
50 Shades of Green: Anthony Pratt slays the Met Gala red carpet
We can now say with confidence that cardboard-box recycling billionaire Anthony Pratt at the Met Gala was easily this weekend's most successful Green. Not because of any affiliation with the troubled environmental political party, but because the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries served an arresting, green-themed look at the Met Gala fundraiser that we describe as clashing in confidence. CBD loves a clashing print (heck, any sort of clash is good copy). So we were pleased to see Pratt's suit teamed with the green theme and heroes the 'Pratt 100% Recycled' decals that were such a feature of last year's Met Gala Willy Wonka pink suit. Pratt repeated the mix of lime, green and lemon decals on a bright green shirt and tie, in contrasting styles so bold they risked triggering our photopsias. Pratt offset his two-piece suit with a dark-green hat and cane. But he swapped out last year's Balenciaga runners for more sensible Brooks sneakers, potentially sourced from the House of Rupert Murdoch. Throwing together the fashion fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York – world's silliest 'look at me' event – with a billionaire's concept of fashion invokes CBD trepidation. Clearly, the event's theme of 'Superfine: Tailoring Black Style' was a tricky and ultimately impossible brief for the chair of Visy and Pratt Industries, who went solidly for 50 Shades of Green despite his personal colour palette not screaming 'spring'. Pratt, who now has a US green card and has an honorary title of Kentucky Colonel, was accompanied by his sister and Visy deputy chair Fiona Geminder. The family wealth is put at $25 billion. The pair's last big social function mentioned in dispatches was a lavish Visy party in March for the packaging industry and clients in a massive marquee at the Pratt family mansion of Raheen in Melbourne's Kew. Air Supply and DJ Mark Ronson performed, while Prime Minister Anthony Albanese flew all the way from Sydney just to give a short speech. Peter Dutton was an apology.
