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# The Met Really Should Be Rita Ora's Element
- URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/the-met-really-should-be-rita-oras-element-05-2017/
- Published: 2017-05-02T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2017-05-08T02:37:43.000Z
- Description: But is this Marchesa fug, or fab? Or somehow both?
- Author: Heather
- Tags: Awards & Galas, Fug or Fab, Marchesa, Met Ball, Met Ball 2017, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-10-07 07:51

Rita Ora spends a good chunk of her red-carpet life parading around in impossibly large, or complicated, or overwrought outfits -- the kinds of things that always appear in search of a context, and coming up short. The Met Gala should be perfect for her, because it's one of the few places where things that *have* no other context can make a sort of sense. But, paradoxically, it also sometimes exposes that Rita can get lost in her wrappings, like the year [she went as a batshit ballerina](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/met-ball-feh-carpet-rita-ora-in-donna-karan-05-2014/). This teeters around that line. Objectively, she looks like an aerialist dressed up as somebody's holiday Lexus. But the makeup and her weirdly striking head-suit -- how did she do that? -- are keeping her from disappearing in a pile of ribbon.

![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2017/05/GettyImages-675625704-1493701840.jpg ""Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between" Costume Institute Gala - Arrivals")

Say what you will about Rita's fashion sense, or Marchesa's construction, but very few people could look this compelling while also being beheaded. Even [Nicole Kidman needed a minute](https://www.gofugyourself.com/photos/flashback-who-wore-what-to-the-2007-oscars/47291%5F73422782-compressed?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io).

\[Photos: Getty\]