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A New Take on #MetGala2019: The Looks Reimagined as Minerals
Senior Editor Brecken Branstrator hopes readers enjoy one Twitter user’s comparisons as much as she did.
I particularly liked this year’s theme, “Camp,” and the looks it brought to the red (check that, pink) carpet. You could tell plenty of the A-listers were having fun with it and letting loose.
There were many great roundups to click through online, including our Fashion Editor Ashley Davis giving us her top five jewelry looks from the night.
Another of my favorite takes from the night—brought to my attention courtesy of our associate editor, Lenore Fedow—was the Twitter user who found a new way to analyze the fashion choices—by reimagining attendees’ looks as minerals.
Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) told me via direct message on Twitter that she has a degree in geology and currently is working on a PhD in geophysics so she “naturally think(s) of most things in terms of the Earth.”
She said when she saw a picture of singer Florence Welch’s green and purple Met Gala look on Twitter the color scheme immediately reminded her of tourmaline, fluorite or a similar mineral, and “it all spiraled from there.”
I’m jealous I didn’t think of it first.
Here are some of my favorites from Labedz’s Twitter take on the Met Gala.
(A note on photo credits: though Labedz compiled the comparison photos for her Tweets, the original images came from this BuzzFeed article, and the list of mineral photo credits can be found here.)
THREAD: #MetGala2019 looks as minerals.
— Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) May 7, 2019
Lucy Boynton - elbaite pic.twitter.com/Y2g5Z6N6sQ
Madelaine Petsch - fluorite pic.twitter.com/SmbZ45LagB
— Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) May 7, 2019
Alexa Chung - orpiment & getchellite pic.twitter.com/gA354wpjrn
— Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) May 7, 2019
Lilly Singh - quartz (var. amethyst) pic.twitter.com/i1it67kE8N
— Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) May 7, 2019
Thalia - azurite & siltstone pic.twitter.com/lPNLh9tuHR
— Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) May 7, 2019
How did I miss Cardi B earlier?!?! She's lava. pic.twitter.com/CkCFddsLCJ
— Celeste Labedz (@celestelabedz) May 7, 2019
Apparently, comparing Met Gala fashions to scientific specimens was a micro-trend this year. See the 2019 Met Gala looks as lichens here and as exoplanets here.
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