May 5, 2023 • 36 mins
This week, Rachel Zoe talks about fashion's biggest night... the Met Gala. This year's theme was Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty and the star-studded guests certainly paid homage in some of the most iconic ways. We're looking at you, Doja Cat! Listen as Rachel Zoe shares her favorite looks of the night and gives some fashion tips along the way.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Hi everyone, I'm Rachel Zoe and you're listening to Climbing
in Heels. This show is all about celebrating the most
extraordinary superwomen who will be sharing their incredible journeys to
the top, all while staying glamorous. Okay, so speaking of glamor, today,
we're going to change things up just a little bit
(00:48):
and instead of interviewing a guest about their climb to
the top, I'm going to dive into the most glamorous
night of the year in New York City, I should say,
the most glamorous fashion night of the year, and dive
into all things met Gala.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So much good fashion it's.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Impossible to cover all of it, but I'm definitely going
to try and squeeze as much in as I can
because I want to talk about my favorites and also
it was paying homage to my all time favorite designer,
mister Carlagerfeld, who has since passed, And if you haven't
heard of him, he was the creative director for Chanelle forever,
honestly as long as I remember, and before that Chloe,
(01:28):
and simultaneously well doing Chanell, he was also doing Fendy.
So here to help talk all things fashion is my
pro producer. I like to call her my family not
by blood, Mary Elizabeth, and I'm so excited to jump
into what I call the oscars of fashion.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So let's get right into it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, Hi, Rachel, oh, hey, thanks for having me to
talk about You can't get rid of me. The first
Monday of May the met Gala.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
For those of you that don't know, when you do here,
I call her Emmy, and I will refer to her
as that by accident a few times. That's code for
Mary Elizabeth. Mary has worked with me for ten years,
actually almost ten and a half now, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And when I started Skyler was not even two years old,
so getting him to say Mary Elizabeth proved very tricky.
So we just decided to go buy my initials Emmy,
and I've been Emmy for like she said, ten almost
ten and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Years, and I forget and professional environments. I just call
her Emmy, but really she's Mary Elizabeth. So I'm a
woman of many names.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Mutt Gala maybe your favorite fashion day of the year,
Dare I say?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I mean, yes, it can be. I've seen it go awry.
I've seen it disappoint the same way you know, I've
seen Oscar's disappoint. I mean, I think, listen, when there's
that much build up to any event, there's going to
be years where it's stronger than I'm meet the expectation
or under delivery yet totally. And also the theme varies.
I think sometimes people interpret the theme quite literally. Sometimes
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they go way back in time to sort of do
a little tongue in cheek nod. And sometimes they don't
care at all that there is a theme and they
just want to look right, you know, like their beautiful selves.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And then sometimes people arrive as a cat. Yes, sometimes
people get to arrive as a cat.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We'll get into that. So how did you spend your
Met Gala this year?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well? I spent it getting ready and watching carpet while
getting ready for co hosting doing a special Met Gala
episode talking about all things met for E News and
it's really fun. It was really fun. Actually, it was
like our own little met Ball on.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
The West Coast. It is what we're calling. We're calling
like met Ball West, met Ball West. Yeah, it was
very fun. I might just start a met Ball on
the West Coast. I feel like you should, or some
sort of viewing comment. I could totally do a met
Ball viewing party.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
There's definitely like a strategy, a content plan I'm running
through my brain right now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Jan Meyer used to do an oscar viewing party and
that was really fun. We used to just kind of
like all be super cash and she would have the
best food and we would just all, like a fun
group of us would watch at her house.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes, but you did a great job on E News.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It was a great panel and making that sort of
television for people that don't necessarily understand how that works.
The carpet is still going on as Rachel and the
panelists are filming and building out he News special. So
it's a very fun, fast paced way to shoot because
they're looking at producers and we're throwing out the names
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of designers.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And then we were all as the artists. We were
also trying to figure out like, are there real bangs?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wait? Is she really platinum blonde? Wait? Is it a wig?
Or like, wait, j Loo's not there yet.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Wait we picked our best dress before half the people arrived.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I know it's a fascinating, fast paced way to
shoot TV, but it was really fun. So that's how
you spent your Met Gala. But I think to set
the stage for listeners who might not know as much
about the me at gala, it would be helpful for
you to just talk about it in general, what it is,
what it's benefiting, and just sort of how the environment feels.
(05:10):
You have been to the Met Gala more than once,
so I think it's fun for you to sort of
set the stage of what the event is about and
what it's like to actually be on those stairs.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, I've been working on the Met for most of
my career, working, you know, collaborating with designers and working
with various clients. For the Met Ball, it is really
chaired by Anna Wintour. I don't think there's anyone who
hasn't heard of Anna Wintour, and unless you live on Mars,
but this is really Anna's ball for the Costume Institute
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at the met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City. If you have not heard of it,
you must go. I've been to some of the most
extraordinary exhibits there. But this is an annual event. It
is extremely expensive. It is invite only, and the tickets
are I believe fifty thousand dollars per ticket. Wow, I
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feel like that risen in price over the year. Yes,
it has like everything else, but yes, fasciation, fashion inflation.
It is a very coveted ticket and I have been
several times actually, and it is very fun. Different designers
are honored each year, and there is a theme, and
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the themes really vary. I mean there has been medieval themes,
there has been camp themes.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This year it's paying homage to Carlagerfeld, who is, in
my opinion, I would say, the greatest designer of all time, sure,
the most prolific. To watch him work, to watch him,
I mean having seen his work for my entire career,
and the amount that he can regurgitate in a day
(06:57):
of his genius and his scratch paper is something of
like dreams. I mean, his chicken scratch is cature. I
mean it's like he was this genius and he passed
away I want to say twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And he also.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Designed for Chloe prior to Chanel, which he really spent
most of his career designing for, creative directing for and
simultaneously he also designed for Findy and as if.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He didn't have enough, Yes, play Chel, it's unreal, It's unreal.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm working at the House of Fendi.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, And he did Cature and Ready Tour. He did
multiple collections a year. Of all the houses that I've
worked with, the design houses that I've worked with, it
is the most in a good way, controlling of the
brand and the image and every move that anyone makes
in their brand, who represents their brand, how they wear
the brand. Karl also was a photographer and he shot
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almost all of like the campaigns, he shot magazines.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He just because it's like he didn't have enough to do.
He could do it all. He could do it all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So this was really tribute to Carl. And the theme
was a line of beauty. So I think that was
left to interpret by all the glamorous women and men.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, it attended. So should we get right into it?
Should we jump into some of your favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's your little brief two minute history, although I could
give you ten hours.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean, yeah, she could do a ten hour podcast,
probably on just setting up the actual carpet.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But I'd also like to clear something up. There's like
rumor that I'm banned. Yeah I'm Matt.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I'm so glad you brought that up.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I feel like every year it happened, there's some sort
of story I say about how you've been banned.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't think that I'm banned, because I've actually been
twice since I was banned, So I don't think that
I'm banned.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I can't really confirm or deny that, but I'm pretty
sure I'm not banned because since I've been told that
I was banned by media, huh, I've been.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Twice, gotcha, Yeah, fake news. There you go. You heard
it here. Fair.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So a lady that definitely needs no introduction, certainly in
fashion and in style in general, but I mean even
more so at the Mechala.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
She's just a staple, is j Lo.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I don't even know what to say because I can't jilo.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's like what I always say, she was airbrush by God.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't understand she literally, so Robin Mary, I'll style her.
And she just looks flawless all the time, whether she's
on the Today Show, whether she's literally walking down the
street or at the Met ball on the steps and
(09:37):
she walks up those steps like she owns the met
because you know, I mean, I guess in a way
she's kind of really owning those steps at this point.
But I mean it's like her body, she shows it
in the appropriate way. She knows what works, she knows
exactly how to stand for. As awful as I am
on a carpet, she is epic on a carpet, Like
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she doesn't give weird. I've never seen a weird expression
on her face. And a carpet she just perfect. It's custom,
Ralph Lauren. It's flawless. I thought actually that it was white,
but it's like a very pale blush. It's so standing
and it's black, and it's open and it's halter, and
it's a train and it's modern the way the.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Two part train sort of laid down the staircase and
the gloves.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's just like drama and elegance. It's elegance, but that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like, it's drama, but it's elegance, and I don't
know that so many people can do that as well
as whit.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I can't think about Ja Loo.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I feel like, even though there's a lot of skin,
there's just like there's shoulders and midriff and all of
those things showing. There's something about j Loo where we
see her skin and yet it is still so elegant
and chic.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yep, I agree, it's just never because you know how
I am with like the overt everything out for the
world to see, and that does work for some people.
It's not my personal preference, but I think on Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It just works.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And what do you think about the Philip Tracy. I
love it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's just I love a Philip Tracy moment and I
just love it with this because it's not that Chanelle.
I mean, I guess it's very like I think it's
probably very early like Coco Chanell, early early Carl Chanel,
but I mean maybe, I mean I've probably seen it
in his cature shows multiple times, head pieces and the like,
(11:26):
but I mean I think this is it just kind
of like made it even more perfect.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yes, it did the perfect top literally figuratively to the look. Okay,
so going from j Loo's beautiful velvet train on the
stairs and it's a lady and it's all these things.
We have to talk about Kendall Jenner because I can't.
Now it's like rock hot cool girl. I can't and
this incredible, I mean, let me, it's hard with the epics, leaves,
(11:56):
with the boots, it's just incredible.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Mark Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I struggle with who I want to come back as
in my next life, Like is it Kendall, is it Gigi?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Is it Kaya? Like am i Kaya?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And I want to throw on like an Azadin Eliah
and like lip bomb and walk out the door, or
don't want to be Kendall and wear like Mark Jacob
stilts and like a leotard, a sequin leotard with a
call like this whole thing. And I have to say
that Kendall has for me really blown my mind at
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every metgala, Like she is someone that I have to
say I look forward to the most because it's just
she really takes it to a new place of being
epically beautiful somehow tasteful, right because you would look at
this and go, who on earth could wear this?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But she does. She pulls it off. She does.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And Mark, very old and dear friend of mine, is
a mastermind of monstrous proportions. I don't even know what
to say Mark's I'd love to spend a day in
Mark's head, sure, even five minutes. But this collaboration with
Mark and Kendall, like it really has Mark's name all
over it. But I love how he did. Mark does
Carloger felt exactly right, Like it's like this leaves Leah
(13:18):
Collase and the platforms and the I love the pony.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Okay, this hair so earrings.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
When I saw the hair, I was like, that's got
Jen Attkin written all over it. But I wasn't sure
if Jen did it, and sure enough she did because
that's their tradition and it's flawless. It's literally the perfect
hair for it. It's like this high, gorgeous, like sixties
pony or nineties pony. Mary Phillips, who is probably one
(13:46):
of my favorite makeup artists out there. She I just
love her makeup every single time. Mary Phillips is brilliant
and everything just works. It just works. Everything about it works.
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Kendall's glam year over year, the men is always perfect
and I always say, brides, use this as.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Your wedding clam.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I remember one year my little sister was getting married.
I pulled the foot I was like, this has to
be your wedding glam. It's just fresh, clean, beautiful, agreed, flawless, agreed,
so staying an it girl world. Yes, we can't not
talk about one of your faces, missus, Gigi Hodey.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You love her.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
She just looked so just perfect cool, yes and yes,
fun and I mean the body, so this is lord.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
This is customs she've on. She by Matthew Williams. I'm
fully obsessed with it. I love how hard edged this
look is. But because Gigi's just so naturally soft, I
love when she goes harder because it works. It's never
like too much and too costume. And this is such
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a Carl look, and Gigi was very close to Karl
was Kendall. And I love the makeup. I think Patrick
Todd did the makeup. I'm obsessed. Mimi Katrell styled it
and it's just it's perfect, like I just love it,
like I just I love how shere it is. I
love how she's showing skin but not too much and
(15:17):
it's still cool. And because she's like young and can
do it, she does it but in a tasteful way.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I just loved this and it screamed channel to me.
And I love how these designers really just paid such
a perfect tribute to Carl in their own way.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And I love the gloves like me too, so many gloves. Obviously,
that was such a calling card for Carl's personal style.
So I just love that we saw a lot of
people playing with that and incorporating that into their overall looks.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It's so fun. Another lovely lady.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That you and I both were pretty blown away by
a newcomer, Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
She looked gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
She literally looked like a doll, A beautiful doll she did.
And I mean, I think a lot of people had
opinions about the bow and the hair.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I loved it. I thought she pull loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I actually thought that's what made it closer to Carlagerfeld,
Like I think it sort of like he's known for
the big black bow, right, he's known for the big
black bow. Was me me? You and I also haven't
seen Sidney Sweeney like this, so I thought it was
sort of like I loved her blonde, big nineties blowout,
which we saw a lot of on the carpet because
(16:30):
that was his thing.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And you know, for anyone.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Who doesn't know Carl's, like one of his biggest sort
of moments in the world really was when the biggest
supermodels of our time, like Cyndy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer
and Christy Turlington and all of these incredible supermodels of
the nineties came out as his muses and we're just
so known for that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And so Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I think a lot of people did this big, like
sort of gorgeous nineties blowout. Marco Robbie did it, but
I love to the bow. I thought that's kind of
what tied it all together. Otherwise she'd look like she's
just wearing a pretty pink gown with a bow, right,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right, And the gown actually had like a black yep
bow lower too, So I just feel like it all wore.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Very simple makeup and very simple makeup, which I loved.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, pretty speaking of supermodel missed Gizelle because you have
a fun story about the gown that she wore.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I do, but I just think she knocked it out
of the park.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Honest, if you asked me, well I would have worn
that was at the met This is what I would
have worn. I mean the feather cape, the dress with
like sort of these slats really of white sequins on tool.
So this gown I believe was two thousand and seven
or two thousand and nine. So Gizelle, I can tell you,
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looks like she did twenty years ago. I am obsessed
with how she rolled onto the carpet as only Gizelle can,
in this way where it looks like she washed her hair,
let it air dry, threw on a little bit of moisturizer,
maybe some mascara and a you know, little lip tint
maybe fresh face, threw on a gorgeous vintage Cauture archival
(18:12):
Cauture Chanelle gown and cape, and just went to the
met with a huge smile, twirling around. And she just looked,
in my opinion, flawless and fun and happy and healthy
and dewey and all the things that Giselle is glowing, blowing,
but really glowing. This dress. When I saw it, I
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was like, I love that. Wait, I know that dress,
and I remembered very clearly that I had that dress
in a fitting for Cameron Diaz that year.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
It was a new it was a new cuture go
so fun.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yes, so insider, so insider, but you know it's funny.
I saw a lot of looks on the carpet and
at the after parties that I saw the first time around,
and that was incredibly cool.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
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Naomi's gown.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We did see a lot of white bridal looks, yes,
and you explained this really well when you were on.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Your E News special.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But will you share with followers why we saw a
lot of white and a lot of bridal specific look
so here.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So Carl always closed his show ready to wear encature
with a bride, with a Chanelle bride, and it didn't
mean that they were in a traditional bridle gown like
sometimes they came out in like a tweed, a white
tweed mini dress, you know, but always very chanel. But
you know, sometimes it was a mini, sometimes it was short,
sometimes it was a coat dress, and it was a
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full on gown and a veil. But it was always
just very true to Carl and it was his thing,
you know, and a lot of designers and their shows
with their version of a bride, but you know, you
don't see it as much much anymore, right, it was
it was definitely a Carl thing for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's such a cool, fun like tradition. That was fun,
the way he liked to present a collection. So speaking
about bridal looks, I think we it would be remiss
to not talk about Rihanna and how epic on so
many levels her Valentino was.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I mean, yeah, she was late.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
She was very late, as Rihanna can be, and rolling
at nine point fifty five right to the met and
you know, I mean, I think Rihanna can pretty much
do whatever she wants. At this point, I am obsessed.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It was Listen.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It was a version of a bridal gown. I mean,
but you could say, one could argue any white gown,
it's a bridal gown.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
But I think, what's so beautiful?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
She's obviously pregnant, and I just loved the architectural flowers.
They were probably camellias as a nod to Chanel, but
Pierre Apaolo, who's the creative director for Valentino, it was
his version. It was his his nod to carl and
it was a piece of art. Honestly, it was actually
art on this steps and it was Valentino does Chanel,
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which was perfect on Rihanna while pregnant.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I mean, yeah, we read whatever we wants to do.
It was the perfect marriage. Nicole kid she was heaven.
I thought Nicole was true heaven. She was so ethereal
and beautiful and light. And you know, she wore the
Chanelle couture blush gown that she wore almost exactly twenty
(22:29):
years ago in two thousand and four, when she was
in that very famous bas Lherman directed Chanelle number five
commercial around the time of mulin Riche.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It was incredible, well because it.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Was a ad for Fragrance that felt like a film, yes,
obviously because it's bas Lehman, but incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And I remember she's like running through like the streets
of Paris.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's not wild. It was nineteen years ago. That was
nineteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
But she's not a hr now. And she's also like
she's such a star honestly. Yeah, she looks great.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And Keith Urban is always so sweet there looking very
dappery word tails.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I know, he's so handsome and they're so cute and
they're so in love and he doades on her. It
kind of reminded me of that Blake Lively Ryan Reynolds
moment last year when the husband stands there and complete
all like I cannot believe what they look like right now,
like what my.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Wife looks like. It's great. Yes, do alipa, do a
lipa one of the co chairs? Yes? Here? What are
your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So I am obsessed with this because this was a
very famous ball gown, very traditional, stunning, but very chanelle
still with the trim and the tweed and the whole thing.
And it was originally worn by Claudia Schiffer, I believe
in nineteen ninety two. I want to say, and you
know here it is in life again, resurrected, and it's
(23:54):
absolutely magnificent on her I also love the necklace. Who
wouldn't love the giant diamond necklace, the diamond of the ocean,
it really is. So it's Tiffany and it's the new
Tiffany and it's magnificent.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The only thing I would.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Say here just as a stylist, I mean I personally
would have lived for a bit of a harder edge
neck moment. I would have loved like layers and layers
of Chanel on her neck and maybe some gloves here
just to kind of like, you know, costume it up
a little era. Yes, yeah, I agree, But again the
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necklace is stunnying, the dress is stunning, dailypas stunning, so like,
but I have to say her after party look.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Gave me like after party look is really cool.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
If you have not seen it, find it, get on
social media and look at it because it's really fun
and really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And I want to give a shout out to my
friends Seth and Gerard, the founders of what Goes Around
Comes Around, because Helena Christensen hosted an exhibition of vintage
Chanel two days before the met Oh wow, because they
have amassed quite a collection and a lot of the
girls wore their vintage Chanel jewelry and clothing from their archives.
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That what goes around comes around in New York City,
So that's amazing. Yeah, the source for the mecalan is
here if you want to dig into some vintage Chanel.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Naomi Campbell so she is superhuman. She is.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
This is why they call them supermodels, because they live
on forever and ever in this surreal beauty of being
genetically blessed. Naomi is stunning in a vintage Chanelle cauture,
beautiful like blush pink, completely embroidered, embellished. It's absolutely magnificent.
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She was perfect. She also again like looked very effortless.
I want to say, this is a twenty ten or
twenty eleven Chanel cature, but so stunning way it's built,
how it lays on her body. I mean, she's like Christians,
genetically blessed and that's why she's one of the supers.
But yeah, she just long hair center part I.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Meanless, just effortless, effortless for incredible. Well, we would be
remiss not to bring up one of the more outside
of the box looks for the evening, which is miss
Doja Cat, Yes, which you had a little window into
so lately before the carpet, So tell us that story.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So Doja Cat, you know she obviously did prosthetics right,
which you know, kudos for that because that's not an
easy thing to actually sit through and it can't be
very comfortable, I have to say, but she really was
in a piece of art. So Fernando and Laura, the
design duo behind Usker de la Renta, custom created this
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couture fully beaded and bellet I mean it's literally magnificent
right into cat ears that just blended seamlessly, and she
just really took it there. And as I said, like
many people really take it quite literally.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And this is a cature cat, it is? And why
a cat?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh sorry, I failed to mention the very important part
because it was so lost in the gown. But so
Carlogerfield had a very famous cat and if you knew Carl,
you knew the cat.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And the cat was named Schuppette.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And Dejah cat is really at the met Ball as
a cature chappette cat.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
We saw a lot of cats. I mean, our buddy
little nas X sort of.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Did it take on a cat with this crystallized.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
His entire body, including the monsters, everything. And then I
mean Jared Letto made quite an entrance this year as
an actual very costumed cat that he was taking it
a little too far. I was going to say, what
do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Is that? To listen?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I'm never one to let go of all the glamour,
you know, I think a nod but keep it gl right.
But I think there was a lot that didn't get
talked about because they didn't get seen enough, you know,
they didn't come in time or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Marco Robbie was simply just gorgeous, like modern nineties beautiful.
She wore a dress literally worn by Cindy Crawford in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I loved Karen Elson looked stunning in a custom Christian
Criano floral tool. I mean it was really a work
of art and she just wore it beautifully and when
it went up those steps, oh my god, it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Well it's safe to say you could do a recap
for three plus hours.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yes, for sure, all of the incredible fashion.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But I want to do a little like speed round
with you to close it out, Okay, to see what
you think. Okay, So who was your best dressed man
on the carpet?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
If you have one, best just man. I actually thought
Brooklyn Beckham looked great. He always looks. I thought he
looked Honestly. I've known Brooklyn since he was a little boy,
and he is such a young gentleman, you know. And
I think he and Nicola married now for a year,
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are such a beautiful couple. But Brooklyn just really looked
He just looked like a very elegant man, young man
going to the met And I feel like he did
it perfectly, Like I loved, he wore like cool jewelry.
He was in all black, like it looked like he
was going to a Chanelle show, you know, like he
could have been going to have dinner with Carl quite perfectly,
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you know, love that. They were also honestly one of
my favorite dressed couples. Actually, they looked really good, Nicola.
I mean, they're gorgeous, they're.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Beautiful people, so they look good anywhere, but they really
shine on Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And their after party looks were epic as well.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So yeah, so many great after If you guys haven't
looked at after party looks, you yourself a favor, it's
really fun.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I do want to say one thing.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
One thing that Carl was very known for, besides gloves
was a fan. And barely anybody was holding a fan,
and that really boum me out.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh that's a great point. There was not okay, take away,
not enough fan. Okay, what's one dress you would like
take off of someone's body and wear tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Just one for me personally. I think Giselle's whole look
for me personally. Yeah right, I think there's many that
I loved, you know, like j Lo, Like, you know,
I loved Florence Peugh's she was amazing, and Valentino cool. Yeah,
that was gorgeous. So there was stunning moments. But I
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think for me personally, with the cape and the feathers
and the thing, I think that it just hit the market. Yeah,
I think it would have been gisell Ar, Gigi or yeah,
you know, Amanda Seyfried.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Though we should talk about Amana.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah. I was going to say, if there's one glam
look that you're going to for sure want to emulate
at your next event.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna wear it tomorrow. I'm pretty
sure the hair I'm not that far right now from Yeah,
but Amanda Seyfried Renaldo Kampora did the hair. I'm blanking
on the makeup, but it's absolutely stunning her hair and makeup.
That hair, you know, that hair is like this sort
of thirties nod, but it's also like a you know,
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Studio fifty four nod.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It's that dream hair, disco yep, disco hair. It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And she's in a custom Oscar Dalala rena gold beaded, drapy,
gorgeous mini dress, and I just she's giving me like
Eightie Sedgwick vibes, and you know, I love that.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Kate Moss Kate Moss Kate Moss Kay.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Legend that is Kate Moss and Fendi by Stephen Jones.
And she looked stunning, absolutely stunning, and Kate obviously was
very close with Carl.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
So Miranda her, I love her.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
She looks like a princess indure, Yes, question though looking
at her glam you have a story about a lip
on the met carpet that as maybe as deep and
as dark as the lip as she did here.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yes, would you do it again? No, not for me,
not for you, but on Miranda. She's Miranda and can
literally do anything. And Miranda looks, as you said, like
a princess. But I do love that she was wearing
this gorgeous you know, pearl encrusted again, lots of nods
to pearls, for Carl, for Chanel. Miranda looks absolutely like
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a princess. But I think what she wanted to do
is sort of say, Okay, this is a gorgeous princess dress,
but I'm going to do sort of a touseled top,
knot and some much more vampy makeup and give that
sort of Chanelle red lip, which not that many people did,
and I was very surprised.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Give it a little edge.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, so I think she was trying to sort of
juxtapose her princess moment. Wow, but I think she's just
a princess, like I think Miranda just looks like a princess.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
She should be our princess for sure. Not that anyone asked,
but my favorite was Jessica Chestain. I thought she just
looked so different, so cool. Some people didn't like the shades.
I loved the sunglass. I loved them as a nod
to Carl. Loved the platinum wig. It was a wig.
She's back to her beautiful red hair color. She posted
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about that, which I thought was funny, but I loved it.
I thought the necklace was cool, the gown was amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I just thought she did it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
She leaned into the theme in a way that was
fun and playful, but it didn't go too far.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I agree. I think Jessica Chestein. I loved her. I thought,
you know, it's so here's a funny story about that.
So again, this just regurgitates from my fashioned brain, not
because you asked, But remember when we were watching Jessica
and I said, oh my god, I remember the dress
that she's wearing. Because Gucci designed her dress and as
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a nod to a famous Chanel dress right right and then,
and I loved her platinum hair and I loved the gloves.
I loved the whole thing Jessica did because, as you said,
I love that she gave this huge nod to Carlagerfeld,
but not in such a costume way that it looked inappropriate.
I thought she looked amazing. And I loved her platinum
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by the way, maybe she did.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But what's interesting is Tory Birch actually wore that dress
that I was referencing to the met this year. Yes,
Tory Burch is wearing the vintage Chanel dress that I
was referring to.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
That Gucci created for Jessica correct for the met. Wow
to take a look, Oh my gosh, Yeah, you guys
are gonna have to look at that.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Camilla Morone stunning name, absolutely stunning, stunning, stunning, and she
was wearing Rodarte.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yes, she was wearing Rodarte. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I think Camilla is doing this very sort of classic
beautiful because she's so strikingly beautiful, and I think with
her less is more, yes, you know, because I don't
think you ever want to put too much on that
gorgeous face, and you know, I think she really knows
what to do with her body and her face, and
she's just so beautiful and she's so talented, and you know,
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I just love this. I think it wasn't overpowering. It
was the perfect nod. I love the Rodarte girls. I
love what they did. I think it's stunning. We could
talk four hours, but I know we can't. So thank
you guys so much for indulging us in some met
Gala recap. Thanks everyone so much for listening to the
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podcast this week. Fashion is and always will be my
first love. I will forever be obsessed with talking about it,
so I'm sorry if I couldn't stop.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
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Hi everyone, I'm Rachel Zoe and you're listening to Climbing
in Heels. This show is all about celebrating the most
extraordinary superwomen who will be sharing their incredible journeys to
the top, all while staying glamorous. Okay, so speaking of glamor, today,
we're going to change things up just a little bit
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and instead of interviewing a guest about their climb to
the top, I'm going to dive into the most glamorous
night of the year in New York City, I should say,
the most glamorous fashion night of the year, and dive
into all things met Gala.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
So much good fashion it's.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Impossible to cover all of it, but I'm definitely going
to try and squeeze as much in as I can
because I want to talk about my favorites and also
it was paying homage to my all time favorite designer,
mister Carlagerfeld, who has since passed, And if you haven't
heard of him, he was the creative director for Chanelle forever,
honestly as long as I remember, and before that Chloe,
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and simultaneously well doing Chanell, he was also doing Fendy.
So here to help talk all things fashion is my
pro producer. I like to call her my family not
by blood, Mary Elizabeth, and I'm so excited to jump
into what I call the oscars of fashion.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So let's get right into it.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Well, Hi, Rachel, oh, hey, thanks for having me to
talk about You can't get rid of me. The first
Monday of May the met Gala.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
For those of you that don't know, when you do here,
I call her Emmy, and I will refer to her
as that by accident a few times. That's code for
Mary Elizabeth. Mary has worked with me for ten years,
actually almost ten and a half now, that's right.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
And when I started Skyler was not even two years old,
so getting him to say Mary Elizabeth proved very tricky.
So we just decided to go buy my initials Emmy,
and I've been Emmy for like she said, ten almost
ten and a half.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Years, and I forget and professional environments. I just call
her Emmy, but really she's Mary Elizabeth. So I'm a
woman of many names.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Mutt Gala maybe your favorite fashion day of the year,
Dare I say?
Speaker 1 (02:43):
I mean, yes, it can be. I've seen it go awry.
I've seen it disappoint the same way you know, I've
seen Oscar's disappoint. I mean, I think, listen, when there's
that much build up to any event, there's going to
be years where it's stronger than I'm meet the expectation
or under delivery yet totally. And also the theme varies.
I think sometimes people interpret the theme quite literally. Sometimes
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they go way back in time to sort of do
a little tongue in cheek nod. And sometimes they don't
care at all that there is a theme and they
just want to look right, you know, like their beautiful selves.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And then sometimes people arrive as a cat. Yes, sometimes
people get to arrive as a cat.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
We'll get into that. So how did you spend your
Met Gala this year?
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Well? I spent it getting ready and watching carpet while
getting ready for co hosting doing a special Met Gala
episode talking about all things met for E News and
it's really fun. It was really fun. Actually, it was
like our own little met Ball on.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
The West Coast. It is what we're calling. We're calling
like met Ball West, met Ball West. Yeah, it was
very fun. I might just start a met Ball on
the West Coast. I feel like you should, or some
sort of viewing comment. I could totally do a met
Ball viewing party.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
There's definitely like a strategy, a content plan I'm running
through my brain right now.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Jan Meyer used to do an oscar viewing party and
that was really fun. We used to just kind of
like all be super cash and she would have the
best food and we would just all, like a fun
group of us would watch at her house.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Yes, but you did a great job on E News.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
It was a great panel and making that sort of
television for people that don't necessarily understand how that works.
The carpet is still going on as Rachel and the
panelists are filming and building out he News special. So
it's a very fun, fast paced way to shoot because
they're looking at producers and we're throwing out the names
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of designers.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
And then we were all as the artists. We were
also trying to figure out like, are there real bangs?
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Wait? Is she really platinum blonde? Wait? Is it a wig?
Or like, wait, j Loo's not there yet.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Wait we picked our best dress before half the people arrived.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
So I know it's a fascinating, fast paced way to
shoot TV, but it was really fun. So that's how
you spent your Met Gala. But I think to set
the stage for listeners who might not know as much
about the me at gala, it would be helpful for
you to just talk about it in general, what it is,
what it's benefiting, and just sort of how the environment feels.
(05:10):
You have been to the Met Gala more than once,
so I think it's fun for you to sort of
set the stage of what the event is about and
what it's like to actually be on those stairs.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
Yes, I've been working on the Met for most of
my career, working, you know, collaborating with designers and working
with various clients. For the Met Ball, it is really
chaired by Anna Wintour. I don't think there's anyone who
hasn't heard of Anna Wintour, and unless you live on Mars,
but this is really Anna's ball for the Costume Institute
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at the met at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York City. If you have not heard of it,
you must go. I've been to some of the most
extraordinary exhibits there. But this is an annual event. It
is extremely expensive. It is invite only, and the tickets
are I believe fifty thousand dollars per ticket. Wow, I
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feel like that risen in price over the year. Yes,
it has like everything else, but yes, fasciation, fashion inflation.
It is a very coveted ticket and I have been
several times actually, and it is very fun. Different designers
are honored each year, and there is a theme, and
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the themes really vary. I mean there has been medieval themes,
there has been camp themes.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
This year it's paying homage to Carlagerfeld, who is, in
my opinion, I would say, the greatest designer of all time, sure,
the most prolific. To watch him work, to watch him,
I mean having seen his work for my entire career,
and the amount that he can regurgitate in a day
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of his genius and his scratch paper is something of
like dreams. I mean, his chicken scratch is cature. I
mean it's like he was this genius and he passed
away I want to say twenty nineteen.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
And he also.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Designed for Chloe prior to Chanel, which he really spent
most of his career designing for, creative directing for and
simultaneously he also designed for Findy and as if.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
He didn't have enough, Yes, play Chel, it's unreal, It's unreal.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I'm working at the House of Fendi.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Yeah, And he did Cature and Ready Tour. He did
multiple collections a year. Of all the houses that I've
worked with, the design houses that I've worked with, it
is the most in a good way, controlling of the
brand and the image and every move that anyone makes
in their brand, who represents their brand, how they wear
the brand. Karl also was a photographer and he shot
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almost all of like the campaigns, he shot magazines.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
He just because it's like he didn't have enough to do.
He could do it all. He could do it all.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So this was really tribute to Carl. And the theme
was a line of beauty. So I think that was
left to interpret by all the glamorous women and men.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, it attended. So should we get right into it?
Should we jump into some of your favorite.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
That's your little brief two minute history, although I could
give you ten hours.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I mean, yeah, she could do a ten hour podcast,
probably on just setting up the actual carpet.
Speaker 1 (08:22):
But I'd also like to clear something up. There's like
rumor that I'm banned. Yeah I'm Matt.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I'm so glad you brought that up.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I feel like every year it happened, there's some sort
of story I say about how you've been banned.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I don't think that I'm banned, because I've actually been
twice since I was banned, So I don't think that
I'm banned.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
I can't really confirm or deny that, but I'm pretty
sure I'm not banned because since I've been told that
I was banned by media, huh, I've been.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Twice, gotcha, Yeah, fake news. There you go. You heard
it here. Fair.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
So a lady that definitely needs no introduction, certainly in
fashion and in style in general, but I mean even
more so at the Mechala.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
She's just a staple, is j Lo.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I don't even know what to say because I can't jilo.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
It's like what I always say, she was airbrush by God.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't understand she literally, so Robin Mary, I'll style her.
And she just looks flawless all the time, whether she's
on the Today Show, whether she's literally walking down the
street or at the Met ball on the steps and
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she walks up those steps like she owns the met
because you know, I mean, I guess in a way
she's kind of really owning those steps at this point.
But I mean it's like her body, she shows it
in the appropriate way. She knows what works, she knows
exactly how to stand for. As awful as I am
on a carpet, she is epic on a carpet, Like
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she doesn't give weird. I've never seen a weird expression
on her face. And a carpet she just perfect. It's custom,
Ralph Lauren. It's flawless. I thought actually that it was white,
but it's like a very pale blush. It's so standing
and it's black, and it's open and it's halter, and
it's a train and it's modern the way the.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Two part train sort of laid down the staircase and
the gloves.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
It's just like drama and elegance. It's elegance, but that's
the thing.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
It's like, it's drama, but it's elegance, and I don't
know that so many people can do that as well
as whit.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I can't think about Ja Loo.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I feel like, even though there's a lot of skin,
there's just like there's shoulders and midriff and all of
those things showing. There's something about j Loo where we
see her skin and yet it is still so elegant
and chic.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Yep, I agree, it's just never because you know how
I am with like the overt everything out for the
world to see, and that does work for some people.
It's not my personal preference, but I think on Jennifer Lopez.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
It just works.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
And what do you think about the Philip Tracy. I
love it.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
It's just I love a Philip Tracy moment and I
just love it with this because it's not that Chanelle.
I mean, I guess it's very like I think it's
probably very early like Coco Chanell, early early Carl Chanel,
but I mean maybe, I mean I've probably seen it
in his cature shows multiple times, head pieces and the like,
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but I mean I think this is it just kind
of like made it even more perfect.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Yes, it did the perfect top literally figuratively to the look. Okay,
so going from j Loo's beautiful velvet train on the
stairs and it's a lady and it's all these things.
We have to talk about Kendall Jenner because I can't.
Now it's like rock hot cool girl. I can't and
this incredible, I mean, let me, it's hard with the epics, leaves,
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with the boots, it's just incredible.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
Mark Jacobs.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I struggle with who I want to come back as
in my next life, Like is it Kendall, is it Gigi?
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Is it Kaya? Like am i Kaya?
Speaker 1 (12:07):
And I want to throw on like an Azadin Eliah
and like lip bomb and walk out the door, or
don't want to be Kendall and wear like Mark Jacob
stilts and like a leotard, a sequin leotard with a
call like this whole thing. And I have to say
that Kendall has for me really blown my mind at
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every metgala, Like she is someone that I have to
say I look forward to the most because it's just
she really takes it to a new place of being
epically beautiful somehow tasteful, right because you would look at
this and go, who on earth could wear this?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
But she does. She pulls it off. She does.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
And Mark, very old and dear friend of mine, is
a mastermind of monstrous proportions. I don't even know what
to say Mark's I'd love to spend a day in
Mark's head, sure, even five minutes. But this collaboration with
Mark and Kendall, like it really has Mark's name all
over it. But I love how he did. Mark does
Carloger felt exactly right, Like it's like this leaves Leah
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Collase and the platforms and the I love the pony.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Okay, this hair so earrings.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
When I saw the hair, I was like, that's got
Jen Attkin written all over it. But I wasn't sure
if Jen did it, and sure enough she did because
that's their tradition and it's flawless. It's literally the perfect
hair for it. It's like this high, gorgeous, like sixties
pony or nineties pony. Mary Phillips, who is probably one
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of my favorite makeup artists out there. She I just
love her makeup every single time. Mary Phillips is brilliant
and everything just works. It just works. Everything about it works.
I don't even know what to say.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Kendall's glam year over year, the men is always perfect
and I always say, brides, use this as.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Your wedding clam.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
I remember one year my little sister was getting married.
I pulled the foot I was like, this has to
be your wedding glam. It's just fresh, clean, beautiful, agreed, flawless, agreed,
so staying an it girl world. Yes, we can't not
talk about one of your faces, missus, Gigi Hodey.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
You love her.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
She just looked so just perfect cool, yes and yes,
fun and I mean the body, so this is lord.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
This is customs she've on. She by Matthew Williams. I'm
fully obsessed with it. I love how hard edged this
look is. But because Gigi's just so naturally soft, I
love when she goes harder because it works. It's never
like too much and too costume. And this is such
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a Carl look, and Gigi was very close to Karl
was Kendall. And I love the makeup. I think Patrick
Todd did the makeup. I'm obsessed. Mimi Katrell styled it
and it's just it's perfect, like I just love it,
like I just I love how shere it is. I
love how she's showing skin but not too much and
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it's still cool. And because she's like young and can
do it, she does it but in a tasteful way.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
You know.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
I just loved this and it screamed channel to me.
And I love how these designers really just paid such
a perfect tribute to Carl in their own way.
Speaker 3 (15:33):
And I love the gloves like me too, so many gloves. Obviously,
that was such a calling card for Carl's personal style.
So I just love that we saw a lot of
people playing with that and incorporating that into their overall looks.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
It's so fun. Another lovely lady.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
That you and I both were pretty blown away by
a newcomer, Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
She looked gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
She literally looked like a doll, A beautiful doll she did.
And I mean, I think a lot of people had
opinions about the bow and the hair.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
I loved it. I thought she pull loved it.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
I actually thought that's what made it closer to Carlagerfeld,
Like I think it sort of like he's known for
the big black bow, right, he's known for the big
black bow. Was me me? You and I also haven't
seen Sidney Sweeney like this, so I thought it was
sort of like I loved her blonde, big nineties blowout,
which we saw a lot of on the carpet because
(16:30):
that was his thing.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
And you know, for anyone.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
Who doesn't know Carl's, like one of his biggest sort
of moments in the world really was when the biggest
supermodels of our time, like Cyndy Crawford and Claudia Schiffer
and Christy Turlington and all of these incredible supermodels of
the nineties came out as his muses and we're just
so known for that.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
And so Sidney Sweeney.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
I think a lot of people did this big, like
sort of gorgeous nineties blowout. Marco Robbie did it, but
I love to the bow. I thought that's kind of
what tied it all together. Otherwise she'd look like she's
just wearing a pretty pink gown with a bow, right,
you know.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Right, And the gown actually had like a black yep
bow lower too, So I just feel like it all wore.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Very simple makeup and very simple makeup, which I loved.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, pretty speaking of supermodel missed Gizelle because you have
a fun story about the gown that she wore.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
I do, but I just think she knocked it out
of the park.
Speaker 1 (17:27):
Honest, if you asked me, well I would have worn
that was at the met This is what I would
have worn. I mean the feather cape, the dress with
like sort of these slats really of white sequins on tool.
So this gown I believe was two thousand and seven
or two thousand and nine. So Gizelle, I can tell you,
(17:48):
looks like she did twenty years ago. I am obsessed
with how she rolled onto the carpet as only Gizelle can,
in this way where it looks like she washed her hair,
let it air dry, threw on a little bit of moisturizer,
maybe some mascara and a you know, little lip tint
maybe fresh face, threw on a gorgeous vintage Cauture archival
(18:12):
Cauture Chanelle gown and cape, and just went to the
met with a huge smile, twirling around. And she just looked,
in my opinion, flawless and fun and happy and healthy
and dewey and all the things that Giselle is glowing, blowing,
but really glowing. This dress. When I saw it, I
(18:33):
was like, I love that. Wait, I know that dress,
and I remembered very clearly that I had that dress
in a fitting for Cameron Diaz that year.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
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Speaker 1 (18:46):
Yes, so insider, so insider, but you know it's funny.
I saw a lot of looks on the carpet and
at the after parties that I saw the first time around,
and that was incredibly cool.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
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Naomi's gown.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
We did see a lot of white bridal looks, yes,
and you explained this really well when you were on.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
Your E News special.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But will you share with followers why we saw a
lot of white and a lot of bridal specific look
so here.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
So Carl always closed his show ready to wear encature
with a bride, with a Chanelle bride, and it didn't
mean that they were in a traditional bridle gown like
sometimes they came out in like a tweed, a white
tweed mini dress, you know, but always very chanel. But
you know, sometimes it was a mini, sometimes it was short,
sometimes it was a coat dress, and it was a
(20:48):
full on gown and a veil. But it was always
just very true to Carl and it was his thing,
you know, and a lot of designers and their shows
with their version of a bride, but you know, you
don't see it as much much anymore, right, it was
it was definitely a Carl thing for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
It's such a cool, fun like tradition. That was fun,
the way he liked to present a collection. So speaking
about bridal looks, I think we it would be remiss
to not talk about Rihanna and how epic on so
many levels her Valentino was.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
I mean, yeah, she was late.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
She was very late, as Rihanna can be, and rolling
at nine point fifty five right to the met and
you know, I mean, I think Rihanna can pretty much
do whatever she wants. At this point, I am obsessed.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
It was Listen.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
It was a version of a bridal gown. I mean,
but you could say, one could argue any white gown,
it's a bridal gown.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
But I think, what's so beautiful?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
She's obviously pregnant, and I just loved the architectural flowers.
They were probably camellias as a nod to Chanel, but
Pierre Apaolo, who's the creative director for Valentino, it was
his version. It was his his nod to carl and
it was a piece of art. Honestly, it was actually
art on this steps and it was Valentino does Chanel,
(22:03):
which was perfect on Rihanna while pregnant.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
So there you go.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
I mean, yeah, we read whatever we wants to do.
It was the perfect marriage. Nicole kid she was heaven.
I thought Nicole was true heaven. She was so ethereal
and beautiful and light. And you know, she wore the
Chanelle couture blush gown that she wore almost exactly twenty
(22:29):
years ago in two thousand and four, when she was
in that very famous bas Lherman directed Chanelle number five
commercial around the time of mulin Riche.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
It was incredible, well because it.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Was a ad for Fragrance that felt like a film, yes,
obviously because it's bas Lehman, but incredible.
Speaker 2 (22:50):
And I remember she's like running through like the streets
of Paris.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
It's not wild. It was nineteen years ago. That was
nineteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (22:57):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
But she's not a hr now. And she's also like
she's such a star honestly. Yeah, she looks great.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
And Keith Urban is always so sweet there looking very
dappery word tails.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
I know, he's so handsome and they're so cute and
they're so in love and he doades on her. It
kind of reminded me of that Blake Lively Ryan Reynolds
moment last year when the husband stands there and complete
all like I cannot believe what they look like right now,
like what my.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Wife looks like. It's great. Yes, do alipa, do a
lipa one of the co chairs? Yes? Here? What are
your thoughts?
Speaker 1 (23:31):
So I am obsessed with this because this was a
very famous ball gown, very traditional, stunning, but very chanelle
still with the trim and the tweed and the whole thing.
And it was originally worn by Claudia Schiffer, I believe
in nineteen ninety two. I want to say, and you
know here it is in life again, resurrected, and it's
(23:54):
absolutely magnificent on her I also love the necklace. Who
wouldn't love the giant diamond necklace, the diamond of the ocean,
it really is. So it's Tiffany and it's the new
Tiffany and it's magnificent.
Speaker 2 (24:10):
The only thing I would.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Say here just as a stylist, I mean I personally
would have lived for a bit of a harder edge
neck moment. I would have loved like layers and layers
of Chanel on her neck and maybe some gloves here
just to kind of like, you know, costume it up
a little era. Yes, yeah, I agree, But again the
(24:32):
necklace is stunnying, the dress is stunning, dailypas stunning, so like,
but I have to say her after party look.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Gave me like after party look is really cool.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
If you have not seen it, find it, get on
social media and look at it because it's really fun
and really cool.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And I want to give a shout out to my
friends Seth and Gerard, the founders of what Goes Around
Comes Around, because Helena Christensen hosted an exhibition of vintage
Chanel two days before the met Oh wow, because they
have amassed quite a collection and a lot of the
girls wore their vintage Chanel jewelry and clothing from their archives.
(25:08):
That what goes around comes around in New York City,
So that's amazing. Yeah, the source for the mecalan is
here if you want to dig into some vintage Chanel.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Naomi Campbell so she is superhuman. She is.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
This is why they call them supermodels, because they live
on forever and ever in this surreal beauty of being
genetically blessed. Naomi is stunning in a vintage Chanelle cauture,
beautiful like blush pink, completely embroidered, embellished. It's absolutely magnificent.
(25:41):
She was perfect. She also again like looked very effortless.
I want to say, this is a twenty ten or
twenty eleven Chanel cature, but so stunning way it's built,
how it lays on her body. I mean, she's like Christians,
genetically blessed and that's why she's one of the supers.
But yeah, she just long hair center part I.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Meanless, just effortless, effortless for incredible. Well, we would be
remiss not to bring up one of the more outside
of the box looks for the evening, which is miss
Doja Cat, Yes, which you had a little window into
so lately before the carpet, So tell us that story.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
So Doja Cat, you know she obviously did prosthetics right,
which you know, kudos for that because that's not an
easy thing to actually sit through and it can't be
very comfortable, I have to say, but she really was
in a piece of art. So Fernando and Laura, the
design duo behind Usker de la Renta, custom created this
(26:47):
couture fully beaded and bellet I mean it's literally magnificent
right into cat ears that just blended seamlessly, and she
just really took it there. And as I said, like
many people really take it quite literally.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
And this is a cature cat, it is? And why
a cat?
Speaker 1 (27:08):
Oh sorry, I failed to mention the very important part
because it was so lost in the gown. But so
Carlogerfield had a very famous cat and if you knew Carl,
you knew the cat.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
And the cat was named Schuppette.
Speaker 1 (27:21):
And Dejah cat is really at the met Ball as
a cature chappette cat.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
We saw a lot of cats. I mean, our buddy
little nas X sort of.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
Did it take on a cat with this crystallized.
Speaker 3 (27:35):
His entire body, including the monsters, everything. And then I
mean Jared Letto made quite an entrance this year as
an actual very costumed cat that he was taking it
a little too far. I was going to say, what
do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Is that? To listen?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I'm never one to let go of all the glamour,
you know, I think a nod but keep it gl right.
But I think there was a lot that didn't get
talked about because they didn't get seen enough, you know,
they didn't come in time or whatever.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
I thought.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Marco Robbie was simply just gorgeous, like modern nineties beautiful.
She wore a dress literally worn by Cindy Crawford in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
I loved Karen Elson looked stunning in a custom Christian
Criano floral tool. I mean it was really a work
of art and she just wore it beautifully and when
it went up those steps, oh my god, it was amazing.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
Well it's safe to say you could do a recap
for three plus hours.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
Yes, for sure, all of the incredible fashion.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
But I want to do a little like speed round
with you to close it out, Okay, to see what
you think. Okay, So who was your best dressed man
on the carpet?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
If you have one, best just man. I actually thought
Brooklyn Beckham looked great. He always looks. I thought he
looked Honestly. I've known Brooklyn since he was a little boy,
and he is such a young gentleman, you know. And
I think he and Nicola married now for a year,
(29:17):
are such a beautiful couple. But Brooklyn just really looked
He just looked like a very elegant man, young man
going to the met And I feel like he did
it perfectly, Like I loved, he wore like cool jewelry.
He was in all black, like it looked like he
was going to a Chanelle show, you know, like he
could have been going to have dinner with Carl quite perfectly,
(29:40):
you know, love that. They were also honestly one of
my favorite dressed couples. Actually, they looked really good, Nicola.
I mean, they're gorgeous, they're.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Beautiful people, so they look good anywhere, but they really
shine on Monday.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
And their after party looks were epic as well.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
So yeah, so many great after If you guys haven't
looked at after party looks, you yourself a favor, it's
really fun.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
I do want to say one thing.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
One thing that Carl was very known for, besides gloves
was a fan. And barely anybody was holding a fan,
and that really boum me out.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
Oh that's a great point. There was not okay, take away,
not enough fan. Okay, what's one dress you would like
take off of someone's body and wear tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (30:21):
Just one for me personally. I think Giselle's whole look
for me personally. Yeah right, I think there's many that
I loved, you know, like j Lo, Like, you know,
I loved Florence Peugh's she was amazing, and Valentino cool. Yeah,
that was gorgeous. So there was stunning moments. But I
(30:42):
think for me personally, with the cape and the feathers
and the thing, I think that it just hit the market. Yeah,
I think it would have been gisell Ar, Gigi or yeah,
you know, Amanda Seyfried.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Though we should talk about Amana.
Speaker 3 (30:54):
Yeah. I was going to say, if there's one glam
look that you're going to for sure want to emulate
at your next event.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna wear it tomorrow. I'm pretty
sure the hair I'm not that far right now from Yeah,
but Amanda Seyfried Renaldo Kampora did the hair. I'm blanking
on the makeup, but it's absolutely stunning her hair and makeup.
That hair, you know, that hair is like this sort
of thirties nod, but it's also like a you know,
(31:25):
Studio fifty four nod.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
It's that dream hair, disco yep, disco hair. It's so fun.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
And she's in a custom Oscar Dalala rena gold beaded, drapy,
gorgeous mini dress, and I just she's giving me like
Eightie Sedgwick vibes, and you know, I love that.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
Kate Moss Kate Moss Kate Moss Kay.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
Legend that is Kate Moss and Fendi by Stephen Jones.
And she looked stunning, absolutely stunning, and Kate obviously was
very close with Carl.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
So Miranda her, I love her.
Speaker 3 (32:00):
She looks like a princess indure, Yes, question though looking
at her glam you have a story about a lip
on the met carpet that as maybe as deep and
as dark as the lip as she did here.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
Yes, would you do it again? No, not for me,
not for you, but on Miranda. She's Miranda and can
literally do anything. And Miranda looks, as you said, like
a princess. But I do love that she was wearing
this gorgeous you know, pearl encrusted again, lots of nods
to pearls, for Carl, for Chanel. Miranda looks absolutely like
(32:38):
a princess. But I think what she wanted to do
is sort of say, Okay, this is a gorgeous princess dress,
but I'm going to do sort of a touseled top,
knot and some much more vampy makeup and give that
sort of Chanelle red lip, which not that many people did,
and I was very surprised.
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Give it a little edge.
Speaker 1 (32:57):
Yeah, so I think she was trying to sort of
juxtapose her princess moment. Wow, but I think she's just
a princess, like I think Miranda just looks like a princess.
Speaker 3 (33:05):
She should be our princess for sure. Not that anyone asked,
but my favorite was Jessica Chestain. I thought she just
looked so different, so cool. Some people didn't like the shades.
I loved the sunglass. I loved them as a nod
to Carl. Loved the platinum wig. It was a wig.
She's back to her beautiful red hair color. She posted
(33:27):
about that, which I thought was funny, but I loved it.
I thought the necklace was cool, the gown was amazing.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
I just thought she did it.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
She leaned into the theme in a way that was
fun and playful, but it didn't go too far.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
I agree. I think Jessica Chestein. I loved her. I thought,
you know, it's so here's a funny story about that.
So again, this just regurgitates from my fashioned brain, not
because you asked, But remember when we were watching Jessica
and I said, oh my god, I remember the dress
that she's wearing. Because Gucci designed her dress and as
(34:03):
a nod to a famous Chanel dress right right and then,
and I loved her platinum hair and I loved the gloves.
I loved the whole thing Jessica did because, as you said,
I love that she gave this huge nod to Carlagerfeld,
but not in such a costume way that it looked inappropriate.
I thought she looked amazing. And I loved her platinum
(34:23):
by the way, maybe she did.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (34:27):
But what's interesting is Tory Birch actually wore that dress
that I was referencing to the met this year. Yes,
Tory Burch is wearing the vintage Chanel dress that I
was referring to.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
That Gucci created for Jessica correct for the met. Wow
to take a look, Oh my gosh, Yeah, you guys
are gonna have to look at that.
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Camilla Morone stunning name, absolutely stunning, stunning, stunning, and she
was wearing Rodarte.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
Yes, she was wearing Rodarte. I loved it.
Speaker 1 (35:02):
I think Camilla is doing this very sort of classic
beautiful because she's so strikingly beautiful, and I think with
her less is more, yes, you know, because I don't
think you ever want to put too much on that
gorgeous face, and you know, I think she really knows
what to do with her body and her face, and
she's just so beautiful and she's so talented, and you know,
(35:24):
I just love this. I think it wasn't overpowering. It
was the perfect nod. I love the Rodarte girls. I
love what they did. I think it's stunning. We could
talk four hours, but I know we can't. So thank
you guys so much for indulging us in some met
Gala recap. Thanks everyone so much for listening to the
(35:49):
podcast this week. Fashion is and always will be my
first love. I will forever be obsessed with talking about it,
so I'm sorry if I couldn't stop.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
But here we are.
Speaker 1 (36:02):
I hope you loved this episode as much as I
love doing it. I want to thank Mary Elizabeth for
being my copilot. And if you want more Climbing in
Heels content, follow me on at Rachel Zo and at
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