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Marina Hyde

Frock horror! In these dark times, let us be grateful for the ludicrous spectacle of the Met Gala

Lana Del Rey wearing an elaborate headdress at the Met Gala.
Lana Del Rey attends the Met Gala in New York City, 6 May 2024. Photograph: Bauzen/GC Images

Tuesday is officially the morning after the Met Gala of the night before, when we civilians get to press our noses up against the glass of our phone screens and pass unsparing judgment on dresses whose trains alone cost more than HS2.

If you haven’t sat in mismatched pyjamas huffing toast while remarking what an unacceptable misstep Lana Del Rey’s mosquito net was, and how Chanel seems to be going tits up, then you have simply failed to capitalise on the digital banquet spread out for you. These are dark times, and nothing but … gratitude, I think? … should be shown for film director Taika Waititi’s decision to come dressed as a brown pleather three-piece suite, while his wife, Rita Ora, presented as the ribbon curtain tacked over their back door to keep the flies off it.

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