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Weird and Wild Styles from The Met Gala Ball

New York, New York: Bad news for fans of freaky fashion. Manhattan’s Met Gala has been indefinitely postponed, due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The annual fundraising fete, which benefits the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is best known as a balls-to-the-wall competition among outrageously clad celebrities attempting to induce a) shock, b) lust, c) jealousy, d) outrage, e) retinal haemorrhage f) all of the above, as they swan up the museum’s red carpeted steps each May.

Cardi B at the Met Gala Ball in 2019.

Grammy Award-winning Cardi B at the Met Gala Ball in 2019. Photo found here.

While the stars may be unable to shine at the gala this year, fear not. For your viewing confusion, I’m hooking you up with some  of the weirdest, most wanton confections from the past—and looking back at the far-fetched creations from the Met’s 2016 exhibitManus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology.”

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