The Met Gala, that is, the fundraising event for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is not only a show of fashion and beauty, but also a hotbed of trends, sometimes proposed too early to be grasped. Every year the Met Gala brings together celebrities personally chosen by Anna Wintour, president of the event since 1995, the so-called A-List stars, which does not mean that they are taken from the “Anna-List”, but they are the most famous of all , the Ghota of Hollywood. Each guest walks the red carpet dressed, made up and coiffed according to the annual theme, which will be for this edition The Garden of Time. And as always, even on the beauty side, we see prodigious looks created by the stars' dream teams which do not always immediately become hits, but which over time are recovered, and thanks to social media, transformed into our contemporary catchphrases.
Like these three from yesterday's Met Gala, now viral, and who in fact are nothing more than a well-heated soup. We present them to you, they are the wet look, the glass or porcelain skin and the coquette style.
Wet look
The first dates back to the Met in 2019, when Kim Kardashianin a Thierry Mugler dress, appeared on the red carpet like a little mermaid, with a dripping wet look for make-up, by her trusted make-up artist, Mario Dedivanovic, and hair.
Kim's makeup and hair shone with that typical shine of someone who has just emerged from the water and is still very wet. A more than current trend that was a real hit at Sanremo 2024 and we still haven't gotten rid of it.
In turn, all the artists showed off the wettest version of themselves. From Giorgia, to Big Mama, Rose Villain who, like Kim, also used it for face and body make-up, Emma, ​​Clara, Angelina Mango and even Lorella Cuccarini, without forgetting Mamhood, Geolier, Irama, everyone seemed to have skipped the drying step after showering.
Glass or porcelain skin
The most talked about trend of the moment on social media, glass skin or porcelain skin, as seen at the Maison Margiela haute couture show and created by celebrity make-up artist Pat McGrath is the other flashback from the Met of the past.
This is nothing new either. For the 1985 Met Gala the same effect was achieved on the face of Cher.
Back then there wasn't the same cosmetic technology as today and to obtain those special effects a lot of pearly make-up had to be layered to give Cher's face the shiny finish of a wedding favor.
Coquette style
The latest contemporary trend, which has roots in the Met's past, is the aforementioned coquetteor flirtatious, which is full of bows and ribbons, both on clothes and for hair accessories and with a translation also for make-up.
Already at the 2018 Met Gala the trend appeared triumphant on the head of Ariana Grandethanks to a maxi bow in chiffon.
A style that did not immediately warm up, until it was replicated again at the 2023 Met Gala, by Sydney Sweeney, Karlie Kloss and Emily Ratajkowsky.
The same year, Sarah Jessica Parker, queen of trends, also confirmed that it was necessary to focus on hairstyles with bows, so much so that after showing herself at the premiere of the New York City Ballet with a bow so long that it reached her shoes, news was leaked that was about to launch a dedicated line of hair accessories.
Call them historical courses and recurrences, or recovery of the classics or upcycling trends, but the gist is that imagination comes from the past to rewrite the trends of the future.
Source: Vanity Fair
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