The Met Gala - past cringe-worthy looks

Are you excited about the Met Gala?
I am.
This is definitely on my bucket list (alongside having lunch with Franca Sozzani and Anna Winter - at the same time) and I eagerly wait for it every year.
And the themes...ah, the themes.
This year it's "China: Through the Looking Glass". Doesn't that sound wonderful? I am already picturing tons of silk, dragons, eyelinered eyes, perfect buns, red lips, red, hot pink, lemon yellow and sky blue.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the people who are attending don't mess this up with an oriental mashup of monumental proportions. This is not carnival folks! This is the single most important night in the fashion industry and needs adequate consideration, fashion sense and a whole lot of fashion diplomacy.
The Met Gala has been stage to a number of ludicrous outfits over the years and they usually provide material for all journalists and bloggers out there to criticise and make fun of on the day after, much like you would with a drunken friend who wakes up with that resounding pounding in his/her head that makes it quite clear that he has no idea what he did last evening, but it wasn't good.
And you've got the video/photos/gif/possible results in your hand and are smirking from across the room while sipping on your hot water and lemon.
This has to be how some Met Gala attendees feel the next day.
That or a massive slap on the forehead moment.

Here are my 10 fav cringe-worthy past looks from the Met Gala (and their just from the past 10 years).
And here is to keeping our fingers crossed for something sensible this evening.

Kiss and Peace
Miss Sinister

Amanda Peet - 2007 (you desecrated the Met
with your black tights)

Ivanka Trump - 2006 (Ivanka, this isn't
a Desperate Housewives of Orange County get together)

 

Katie Holmes 2008 (aka what Alexandra and Mr. Grey
might spawn)

Kristen Stewart - 2010 (once a vampire, always a vampire)

Lil' Kim - 2005 (how did she get invited?!?)

Lupita Nyong - 2014 (why oh why would you wear this, girl?)

Miranda Kerr (+dreamy ex-husband) - 2011

Rachel Weisz - 2009 (she married James Bond?!?)

Katie Holmes - 2014 (aka an oversized
member of Tweety's family)

Miley Cyrus - 2013 (I'm pretty sure Anna wanted to pounce on you,
 comb you hair down, throw a Chanel jacket on and call it a day)

What the tech cat dragged in - smaller iPhones in the future?

Guess what? Take a look at what the tech cat from Yahoo dragged in.

Could Apple be considering the left-over population that hasn't bought and (in my humble opinion) will never buy one of their new gargantuan phones?
In the light of my boyfriend's newly gifted iPhone 6, I am still praying for Apple to reconsider their little man-big car ideas and go back to pre-iPhone 6/unmentionable iPhone 6 Plus times.
And this is where that article up there really makes my day!

I (to be read the planet's female population) have tiny, expensive bags that I can barely fit my yellow wallet into (damn you Fendi for making perfect wallets all the while supporting the miniaturisation of purses), my lipstick, a mirror and if I'm lucky some tissues. And then we (again, the female population of this planet) have to stuff our iPhones, Samsungs...(you lost me here, there might be some other phones but I care not and will mention not) into the aforementioned tiny, expensive bags.

And just when I thought you (Apple) had it figured, with your sleek, light, elegant iPhone 5 series that fit into our purses like a bug snug in a rug (always wanted to say that)...you go ahead and change it.

Don't get me wrong, I have big bags, totes and shoppers and duffles and doctors and what not, but what should we do when we want to wear our baguettes and messengers and minaudieres?
The iPhone 6 Plus is as big as a Charlotte Olympia masterpiece.
It looks like the freaking Frankenstein of technology to me.

So any news that Apple could pull out a 6C with the same sleek design but not on steroids has me jumping up and down with joy.

Just a tiny side note: the new iPhone 6 series is fast, bright, intelligent and generally Apple and worth every single penny.



I'll keep you posted on the news despite not being a tech cat.

Kiss and Peace
Hopeful Miss Sinister