Met Gala 2017: Thandie and Haley Go With Giant Headresses at the Met

Thandie Newton in Monse

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 01: Thandie Newton attends the "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 1, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images For Entertainment Weekly)

While I appreciate crazy and costumey makeup, I do not know why you would take a face as divine as Thandie's and defile it thusly. Surely there is a way to do that which actually SUITS her. I just want my drama to be hot. HOT DRAMA. The dress is... fine. She's actually doing a LOT for it; I don't think its merits are much without her. And I don't fully get how it applies.

Haley in Dolce & Gabbana

This feels like ... it's appropriate for *a* theme, but not perhaps *this* theme?

Thandie

I wonder how heavy that was. They DO look like fresh flowers, which is impressive. Her head would make a very nice centerpiece, which is not something you get to say every day.

Haley

I believe she is wearing colored contacts, as I've never noticed her eyes being a Pantone-perfect emerald green before. This all feels very Marie Antoinette to me. She belongs in court at a party where her dress is actually made of edibles, and people are snacking directly off her naked body.