Life’s a Ball ! The best quotes from #TheMetGala
“My wife said I look like a Latin American dictator. I said, ‘That’s what I am.’” Oscar de la Renta on wearing his medals/decorations and white tie.
“Well as you can see I’m quite exposed. No, but its good, I’m quite taped in.” Model Anja Rubik
“This is more like the Roman coliseum. People screaming your name, Rita! Rita! Rita! Even the Oscars isn’t like this! The Oscars is much more civilized! This is crazy. You New Yorkers are animals!” Rita Wilson
“The Oscars are so intense and you’re sitting down and it’s so long. This is like, in and out,” OliviaMunn, a first timer to the gala.
“No pictures of Beyoncé!” the diva’s towering bodyguard when someone tried to take a picture of her dancing.
“I know a lot about Charles James. He used to dress Gypsy Rose Lee, who was the most famous striptease star of the forties and fifties. Sometimes, people will say, ‘What does a stripper have to do with fashion?’ And I’m like, ‘There’s been a correlation for a long time.” Dita Von Teese.
“It’s like a f88king second skin!” Sarah Silverman screamed sarcastically of her dress while kicking, and tripping, up the stairs.
“Nothing comfortable is worth wearing to the Met Ball,” Rita Ora.
“We’re used to wearing kilts in Scotland, so it’s not much more uncomfortable than that.” Christopher Kane.
“Someone stepped on them and they fell off,” Derek Lam cracked when asked where his coattails were.
“When you’re on ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and you wear tails, it looks like you’re in a sketch.” Seth Myers.
“She talks too much, I just stick out my hand and say, ‘The exhibition’s that way.'” Anna Wintour talking about the receiving line with SJP ( Check out the fabulous video here of Anna Wintour and SJP on Late Night with Seth Myers.)
“What I wanted to wear to Met Ball but Anna said Not this year! So I’m gonna work on music instead? #artforfreedom.” Madonna’s instagram.
“Anna is always thrilled to have her (Madonna) at the Met Gala.” a Vogue spokeswoman .
“We called Anna [Wintour] and she gave us her blessing,” Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez said the tails have a “shortening” effect — they tried them on and didn’t like the look.
Just as dinner was about to be seated, KanyeWest and Kim Kardashian blew in. “I don’t have much to say,” the predictably terse West growled when asked about his dress-code-heeding ensemble. “It’s Lanvin. That’s all I’ll say.”
Quotes from Style.com and WWD and Mario Testino pictures from Vogue.
