Zendaya’s Joan of Arc look was also a major miss among students.
“They sexualized it,” Kassel said in reference to Rihanna’s papal ensemble. Eva Kassel, a luxury and fashion management graduate student, thought the theme had great potential for offensive content and styles like Rihanna’s were inappropriate. Many SCAD students thought some of the looks went too far. Backlash from fashions like these had critics calling the theme disrespectful and appropriating. Ariana Grande wore a Sistine Chapel painted gown, Zendaya geared up in Joan of Arc-inspired armor and Katy Perry wore giant angel wings paired with a gold Versace gown. Rihanna, the host of the event, sported a papal style by Maison Margiela complete with a pearl and jewel-embellished mitre cap. Others donned ensembles almost costume-like in their literalness. Some guests paid vague tribute to the exhibition that examines the influence of Catholicism on clothing. Designers, who pair up with celebrities to create meticulously styled ensembles, were tasked with creating looks for potentially sensitive and possibly offensive subject matter.
This year, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” posed a challenge to designers and celebrities who typically dress to the theme of the exhibition. The annual invitation-only party, which is also a fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute, kicks off the fashion exhibition which opens to the public on May 10. Stars lined the red carpet on May 7 outside the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art for the 2018 Met Gala.
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