[libracorpvs]

Will you ever be a Libra, sister?

i have been thinking 🤔 about this long and hard, and i am finally ready 👍 to come out as transzodiac 🥳 from now on, regardless of my actual star sign, i identify as a libra ♎ i hope my fellow libra sisters will accept and embrace me 🫂🤗 as one of their own 🤝 and i will report it as a hate crime 🔪 if they do not 🥰

[henstomper]

dude it's just politics, it doesn't matter. all it does is shape every single aspect of the society you live in from the second you are born until forever

[libracorpvs]

i'm sorry to my 3 new followers, i'm not actually a fashion blogger outside of the met gala

[theconcealedweapon]

[i-wear-the-cheese]

Rent Seeking Behaviour is the term for the capitalist action of trying to derive money from a source without creating anything, simply by owning it and forcing others to pay for access, usually in an instance where previously access was direct and permanent. eg: streaming films instead of owning DVDs

our entire global economy is trapped in a system that requires almost every step of creation, shipping, selling, and owning to be hampered and siphoned by a bunch of financial vampires. they aren't even middle men because in most cases the products on offer predate them by decades or even centuries. they're highwaymen just taking a scoop of everything that passes down the road

[libracorpvs]

it's hardly groundbreaking but i LOVE this dress and Naomi Watts looks like she's having so much fun wearing it

[libracorpvs]

idk her but she's dressed as her own painting

[libracorpvs]

on any other man this would've been a serve but on Colman Domingo it's a bit tame. the tiny pleats on the colourful squares are a nice detail but idk. he goes so hard on every red carpet that i expected this to be dialled up to 11 rather than a (still respectable) 8

[libracorpvs]

it's so dull to interpret a reference literally without interpreting the meaning of it. "madame x" was a controversial painting - it defied the social norms of presenting the sitter in their true likeness and instead exaggerated her features, her figure, the colour of her skin, to make her look like an elevated representation of herself. her strap was originally falling off her shoulder suggestively and it caused such a stir that it had to be painted back into its proper place!the sitter, virginie amélie avegno, was known to be beautiful but to exaggerate it so much in this painting was considered beyond vulgar.

now how does that translate to the modern day in a society where shame hardly exists, where everything is erotic and nothing is sexual? what would defy cultural norms around celebrity? what would someone have to wear to cause the same kind of controversy as madame x, and why wasn't claire foy wearing something like that?

[libracorpvs]

paloma elsesser's dress was made of 1920s-30s dresses purchased on ebay, reworked into one gown, hand-painted and embellished with metalwork

[libracorpvs]

inside me there are two wolves. “I am a feminist and holy shit the difference in MET gala outfits are so bad and so many women go through willing humiliation rituals, showing up in glorified nudity while their male colleagues are fully dressed”

and the other being “omg fucking gorgeous (lesbian heart explodes)”

there is a third, more vindictive wolf inside me who sees celebrity men having to conform to increasingly unrealistic beauty standards on these red carpets year on year and thinks "good. you can suffer too"

(fr though the dissonance between feminist thought and the overt display of sexism in hollywood is jarring but alas, we can't live life without enjoying ourselves a little!)

[libracorpvs]

I love how the dress looks from the back and i love the little swirls in her hair, but idk. rihanna usually does better

[libracorpvs]

nah you read Odessa done because the same ole hairstyle back to back to back is tired. The little sparkles on her face… girl either serve or don’t but you see how Anok Yai made her makeup work with her hair and outfit? Then if you want the boobies to fly, add some structure in some way to give some va va voom otherwise you’re going to look like you’re having a wardrobe malfunction or like the top was poorly made which I just know Valentino is not doing. Lastly shorter girls with tall boots… take notes from Sabrina and wear a shoe to give your legs some length!

frr the look itself was tacky but if you're going to dress tacky at least make the proportions make sense 😭 nudity is a lazy attempt at shock factor and it makes her seem boring af - if she wants to turn heads, her stylist ought to put her in something worth looking at. tbh if she'd just turned up on the red carpet in that hotel bathrobe with hudson williams on her arm it would've been an infinitely more iconic move

[libracorpvs]

Omg Anne Hathaway renews my hope she’s so amazing. Really doesn’t miss. Thank you for outdoing yourself on the theme Queen!

you and i are 100% on the same wavelength 🙏🏽 i love that her sense of style is unpredictable as well - her look for the karl lagerfeld theme was so much edgier than what she usually wears, then this year's look was so bold and graphic but on a very classic silhouette.... i love her.....

[libracorpvs]

ngl i love this!! what an interesting take on the theme!!! fashion as an art form distorting the human body into something grotesque!!!!!

[libracorpvs]

all that secrecy just to turn up looking like a mess 😭 she should've kept that robe on

[libracorpvs]

see now this is a fun, colourful, new take on the nude illusion

[libracorpvs]

i can respect a coordinated outfit when it's on theme, and i love that ciara's hair IS her crown 👑