{"id":2239193,"date":"2024-05-07T13:34:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/met-gala-stars-mocked-as-absurd-outfits-leave-them-unable-to-conquer-a-flight-of-stairs\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T13:39:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T17:39:25","slug":"met-gala-stars-mocked-as-absurd-outfits-leave-them-unable-to-conquer-a-flight-of-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/met-gala-stars-mocked-as-absurd-outfits-leave-them-unable-to-conquer-a-flight-of-stairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mocked for Outlandish Outfits, Met Gala Celebs Struggle with Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmet-gala-stars-mocked-as-absurd-outfits-leave-them-unable-to-conquer-a-flight-of-stairs%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2239193&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200cMet Gala on\u200b May 7, 2024, showcased celebrities\u2062 in \u2064extravagant outfits reminiscent\u200d of Versailles pre-Revolutionary France. Clips of stars struggling to \u2064climb stairs due to their\u200c elaborate attire circulated online. Despite some admiration for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-success-story-and-designer-bill-blass-turns-100\/\" title=\"American Success Story And Designer Bill Blass Turns 100\">avant-garde fashion<\/a>, many criticized the event&#8217;s excess amid\u200d societal challenges. The spectacle symbolized \u2064decadence and extravagance, highlighting a stark contrast with real-world struggles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/%20\"><span>Allison Anton<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   May 7, 2024 at 8:47am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Monday night was The Met Gala, the self-proclaimed \u201cfashion\u2019s biggest night out,\u201d where celebrities dress in absurd outfits and the establishment media fawns over their bizarre attire in a modern day version of the court of Versailles in pre-Revolutionary France.<\/p>\n<p>You know, the time when much of the French citizenry were literally starving to death while the French aristocracy shielded themselves from reality with frivolous pursuits and absurd fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Although, instead of vast panniers that made aristocratic women turn sideways in doorways or towering hairpieces that necessitated specially made pillows to preserve them, the Met Gala displayed celebrities so dressed up they couldn\u2019t conquer a flight of stairs.<\/p>\n<p>A series of clips from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-facebook-post-claims-to-show-evidence-joe-biden-used-a-body-double-for-his-covid-19-vaccine-booster-shot\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Facebook Post Claims To Show Evidence Joe Biden Used A Body Double For His COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Shot\">video coverage<\/a> of the Met Gala showing numerous female guests who could not ascend the stairs by themselves was shared to the social media platform X, with some users intending to be flattering and others choosing to be decidedly more honest.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the former, Entertainment Tonight shared a video of pop singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lizzo-dropped-super-bowl-halftime-show-consideration-amid-dancers-sexual-harassment-abuse-allegations-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo<\/a> posing in a dress with a bizarre and uncomfortable headpiece before attempting to mount the steps with the help of two different people.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Only Lizzo can pull off this look at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MetGala?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MetGala<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pUw3laQn7W\">pic.twitter.com\/pUw3laQn7W<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Entertainment Tonight (@etnow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/etnow\/status\/1787642548413972869?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Associated Press shared a video of female rapper Cardi B, posing in a voluminous gown with a vast train that required the help of nine people to get her \u2014 and it \u2014 up the stairs.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Nine men had to carry Cardi B\u2019s dress up the Met Gala stairs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kypl7Gr6Np\">pic.twitter.com\/kypl7Gr6Np<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Associated Press (@AP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AP\/status\/1787664311516549263?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"firefly-poll-container\">\n<p>Is fashion for this event a waste?<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, two different accounts shared video of South African singer-songwriter Tyla, wearing a dress so tight that a man literally had to pick her up, hoist her over the steps, then place her back down again on flat ground (with the assistance of two others to pick up the dress).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tyla receiving princess treatment and getting carried on the Met Gala stairs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MetGala?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MetGala<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MetGala2024?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MetGala2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SZQYR5prV6\">pic.twitter.com\/SZQYR5prV6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 m \u2728 (@PRADAXBBY) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PRADAXBBY\/status\/1787612205774680329?\">May 6, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So fashionable, yet unable to conquer a flight of stairs.<br \/> Met Gala 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0bQAXzs7Io\">pic.twitter.com\/0bQAXzs7Io<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BrownEyedGirl\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@BrownEyeGirl_45) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrownEyeGirl_45\/status\/1787819486298419544?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While a few users on X were enamored with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/star-accused-wearing-satanic-outfit-elites-put-vanity-full-display-met-gala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">avant-garde fashions<\/a> on display, most seemed at best amused and at worst sickened by the excess on display.<\/p>\n<p>One user, referring to Lizzo\u2019s bizarre get-up, commented that she didn\u2019t \u201cpull off\u201d the look because \u201cshe can hardly walk,\u201d while another responded to the post saying \u201cNo. No she can\u2019t. She literally [cannot] pull herself up those stairs either.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Not really, she can hardly walk. Who is running this account?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Damon Gonzalez (@TheyCallMeDaymz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheyCallMeDaymz\/status\/1787650100342522083?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No. No she can\u2019t.<br \/> She literally can pull herself up those stairs either.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Karolina (@karolinasmirne) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karolinasmirne\/status\/1787643406727983465?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/tim-graham-cardi-bs-wet-py-gets-no-warning-muppets-welcome-woke-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cardi B\u2019s<\/a> inability to walk up the steps inspired similar disdain, with one user commenting \u201cCardi B\u2019s dressed just caused 7 years of climate change\u201d and another pointing out \u201cMeanwhile, millions of Americans don\u2019t have enough to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cardi B\u2019s dressed just caused 7 years of climate change.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 WasatchMan (@_WasatchMan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_WasatchMan\/status\/1787670922545217820?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Meanwhile, millions of Americans don\u2019t have enough to eat.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rocky Mountain Views (@RockyMountViews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RockyMountViews\/status\/1787786724870848654?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Tyla\u2019s dress was better received overall, but even then, comments resembled one from this user, who said, \u201cIn your face America. Because this is what matters. Enjoy your bread and circus.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">In your face America. Because this is what matters. Enjoy your bread and circus.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Jones (@jones_jon65617) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jones_jon65617\/status\/1787845138825498860?\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, the stars\u2019 inability to mount the stairs while bedecked in their ridiculous finery functioned as a decent metaphor for the event itself.<\/p>\n<p>The self-indulgent vanity paraded and encouraged by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-gets-hit-painful-surprise-attending-met-gala-tax-rich-dress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Met Gala<\/a> has always been sickening, but now, with Bidenomics draining the average American\u2019s wallet, it\u2019s become downright insulting.<\/p>\n<p>The whole night was a spectacle of \u201chigh fashion\u201d that no one in their right mind would ever wear, even assuming, by some miracle, they could afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the government in New York City thought it more important to have tight security around the Met Gala to protect them from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/shocking-number-anti-israel-protesters-columbia-werent-students-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Israel protesters<\/a>, while letting Columbia University cancel their graduation ceremonies due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/budweiser-caves-to-peta-demands-regarding-its-famous-clydesdales\/\" title=\"Budweiser yields to PETA's Clydesdales demands.\">safety concerns caused<\/a> by those same protesters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/kathy-griffin-pulls-cringe-publicity-stunt-dylan-mulvaney-effort-stay-relevant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vapid celebrities<\/a> with nothing better to do than don expensive, ugly, and impractical clothes apparently deserve police protection, but not the Jewish students threatened with violence on their college campus.<\/p>\n<p>For Americans struggling to make ends meet under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidenomics-inflation-killing-american-dream-100k-no-longer-enough-survive-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crippling inflation<\/a>, while witnessing the disintegration of law and order in major cities with horror, the whole event has just become an embodiment of that infamous line, \u201cLet them eat cake.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And remember how well that worked out for the French aristocracy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>A Note from Our Deputy Managing Editor:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>\u201cWe don\u2019t even know if an election will be held in 2024.\u201d Those 12 words have been stuck in my head since I first read them. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn recently made that comment to Floyd Brown, founder of The Western Journal. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>And if the leftists and the elites get their way, that\u2019s exactly what will happen \u2014 no real election, no real choice for the Electoral College, and no real say for the American people. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Western Journal is fighting to keep that from happening, but we can\u2019t do it alone.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We work tirelessly to expose the lying leftist media and the corrupt America-hating elites.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>But Big Tech\u2019s stranglehold is now so tight that <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>without help<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  from you, we will not be able to continue the fight. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The 2024 election is literally the most important election for every living American. We have to unite and fight for our country, otherwise we will lose it. And if we lose the America we love in 2024, we\u2019ll lose it for good. Can we <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>count on you<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  to help? <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With you we will be able to field journalists, do more investigative work, expose more corruption, and get desperately needed truth to millions of Americans. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We can do this only with your help. Please don\u2019t wait one minute.<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>  Donate right now<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Thank you for reading,<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Josh Manning<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Deputy Managing Editor<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>P.S. Please <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><i><span>stand with us<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>  today.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"author-info-45810\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/aanton\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"summary-tab-radio-45810\">Summary<\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45810\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45810\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Allison Anton dabbles in fiction, as well as commenting on depressing modern trends and media. She calls the metro Atlanta area home, and when she\u2019s not writing, she\u2019s creating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-unanimously-sides-with-catholic-adoption-agency-in-religious-freedom-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Unanimously Sides With Catholic Adoption Agency In Religious Freedom Case\">loving home<\/a> for her amazing husband.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 7, 2024, Allison Anton comments on The Met Gala, dubbed &#8220;fashion&#8217;s biggest night out.&#8221; Celebrities flaunt absurd attire while the media praises their bizarre outfits, reminiscent of the court of Versailles pre-Revolutionary France. 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