The highlight of the global fashion calendar is New York’s Met Gala Ball. It is the industry’s Oscars, featuring a cavalcade of celebs competing for attention in outfits that would make Dame Edna Everage look like an Anita Brookner heroine.
Conducted with a po-faced self-importance at odds with some of the quite hilarious spectacles it provides, it really is fashion’s annual Emperor’s New Clothes extravaganza. Supermodel Cara Delevingne went out of her way to prove it this year by turning up in very little apart from a pair of golden nipple saucers.
Kim Kardashian, meanwhile, attempted to “break the internet” by wearing the $5million sequinned sheath dress Marilyn Monroe donned to coo Happy Birthday to JFK in 1962. The style stunt spared us the usual method Ms Kardashian uses to conquer cyberspace – inflicting her bare bum on Instagram.
