For them: False Fusion
The Met Gala is genius: every year Anna Wintour comes up with an exhibition for the Metropolitan Museum in New York just to have a reason for a fashion spectacle! This year’s theme, rightly so: Karl Lagerfeld. As always, the textile homages were sometimes more, sometimes less successful, short summary of the events: Nobody is interested in Kim Kardashian anymore, no matter how many Chanel commemorative pearl necklaces she can wrap around her naked body. The Thom Browne outfit by Janaelle Monae was initially promising because of its performance: a tweed jacket-inspired layer in black and white wound over a full-body crinoline; during the unwrapping process she briefly stood there with a white shirt, just as Karl Lagerfeld loved her. Great! But then suddenly it was just glitter bikini and she lifted her skirt and that somewhat cheap gesture cost her the outfit of the night. So here we choose a different look, knowing that the Met Gala isn’t about sophistication, it’s about Mardi Gras ingenuity: Anne Hathaway in a Versace safety pin dress, but in Chanel-style tweed. Did this fusion of the codes of two fashion houses that couldn’t be more different work? Of course not. “I remember hearing Gianni and Karl laughing at dinner one night and this dress reminds me of that moment,” designer Donatella said Vogue. That’s exactly what this event, which has completely fallen out of the dark ages, is all about: It has to be a little fun.
For him: cool sock
Well, his leading roles in the series “The Mandalorian” and “The Last of Us” are one thing, but they don’t quite explain the hype that has sprung up around actor Pedro Pascal on the internet in recent months. There he has been stylized as a kind of universal figurehead and lovable top daddy, inspired by the heartwarming father role he embodies in “The Last of Us”, but also by the unforced happiness that bursts out of him in every interview. In terms of style, too, the childless Pascal has so far been very casual and dad-like, between self-knitted retro cardigans and colorful norm core, but never quite banal. All the more amazing was his appearance at the Met Gala, where Pascal shot the bird from a rather unexpected side: an alarm red Valentino outfit like from a Marvel comic, with a superhero coat but also very short pants, knee socks, hairy men’s legs and tie – even with this completely oversaturated spectacle, that was worth a second look. In the past, such an outfit would have been enough for half a Tarantino film, today and on Pedro Pascal the whole thing looks more like it a prank, so a prank. And somehow it was also perfect for the new Daddy Cool of Generation X, Y and Z. While many of the young beauties, rappers and athletes in it would have looked irrevocably silly, the look didn’t scratch Pascal’s attractive sovereignty at all. Or to put it another way: when dad comes across as totally funny, we really like him.