The Met Gala Cometh

With Special Guest Lauren Sanchez. Plus: Rosemary Baby's getting a prequel and we wonder about Baby Reindeer.

Broads! An important PSA: The Met Gala is coming our way in less than a week, on Monday, May 6th. This year, the Costume Institute’s Spring Exhibition is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” and will include— inspiring its name — several very rare pieces from the Met’s permanent collection which are apparently “far too fragile to ever be worn again.” (As we’ve noted previously, the “ahem, Kim Kardashian” feels strongly implied there.)

Per Vogue:

This year’s 2024 Met Gala dress code is “The Garden of Time.” Inspired by J.G. Ballard's short story of the same title, written in 1962, it can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Still, we'll likely see many floral and botanical looks grace the famed Met Gala red carpet.

In other words, as many people have also pointed out, this is fluid enough that people may be less likely to get dinged for whether they sufficiently interpret the theme, given that Anna says right there that they’ll have a wide berth.

J.G. Ballard is best known to me as t…