The Met gala has its own rules of the game, and Kendall Jenner A new one has just written. On one night where excess is usually the current currency, she opted for containment, construction and concept. With this, his eleventh year parading at the world’s most media gala, Kendall not only walked the blue carpet: proposed a new form of presence, one that does not need volume to leave their mark. Forget the theatricality that defined their looks of previous years. This time, there were no feathers, there were no crystals, there were no corsets of vertigo. There was an idea. And that idea wore Torishéju Dumi.
The model, known for alternating between the spectacular and the hyperfemenino, decided to surrender to the author’s tailoring. A decision that, in the context of the topic “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style”, He felt as much as a risk as a statement. Because there were no predictable gestures or repeated formulas: there were precision, intention and an acute reading of the fashion as a means to tell stories. A particular: that of Gladys Bentley, the singer and pioneer of the era of Harlem Renaissance, whose entire existence was an act of disruptive style and without concessions.
Neither dressed, nor tuxedo: a symbol
The piece was not a dress, but not a traditional tuxedo. It was a hybrid. A kind of Sartorial Statement that only makes sense in contexts like this, where clothes are not only clothes, but speech. The upper part remembered an oversize male coat, with structured and rectangular shoulders. The lower part fell into pants that seemed hand carved by hand, as if someone had taken a canvas of gabardina and sculpted each fold with scalpel (metaphorical, of course).
The most interesting thing was the absence of ornaments. No rhinestone, without embroidery, without metal. The force was in the form. In an era where the red carpet competes for the most viral look, Kendall did something more radical: he opted for thought. For the story.
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When fashion becomes reading
Gladys Bentley was an artist who challenged gender codes in the 20s with male costumes and incendiary attitude. That Kendall and Dumi have decided to evoke it is not accidental: it is a way of talking about the present with references to the past. Of anchoring a gala focused on the “Black Tailoring” to a figure that not only dressed costumes: transformed them into a political statement. In this look, clothes not only wore Kendall, he also narrated. Read. Resignified.
