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kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>When the <a href=" target="_blank">Met Gala</a> was first tablished 1948, was maly as a means to raise money for the Metropolan Mm of Art’s Costume Instute—a mandate that remas to this day—although the fact that New York’s great and good also enjoy an opulent night out didn’t hurt s succs eher. </p><p>As the Met Gala has evolved over the past few s om a soirée enjoyed by a rarefied rner of Manhattan high society to one of the most hotly anticipated celebry events of the year (now closely watched by onlookers all over the world), the style prerequis for the red rpet have changed. Sure, the theme of each year’s exhibn provis a gui: om the renega looks that marked 2013’s “<a href=" target="_blank">Punk: Chaos to Couture</a>,” to the flounce and flamboyance of 2019’s “<a href=" target="_blank">Camp: Not on Fashn</a>,” to the “<a href=" target="_blank">gild glamour</a>” of this year’s gala, celebratg “<a href=">In Ameri: An Anthology of Fashn</a>.” But as the years have gone by, and the spotlight has grown ever more tense, stars wh a forthright polil outlook have regnized the night as a fom to share their prcipl and fundamental beliefs through clothg. While ’s never been unual for polil figur to walk the red rpet—jt take Hillary Clton’s appearance at the 2001 gala, tied to an exhibn on Jackie Kennedy’s Whe Hoe wardrobe— feels like there’s been a turng of the dial towards more explic polil msagg recently.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Hats off here to <a href=" target="_blank">Lena Wahe</a>, who was one of the first off the mark. Back 2018, the filmmaker and actor fied nventn for the night’s theme of “<a href=" target="_blank">Heavenly Bodi: Fashn and the Catholic Imagatn</a>” by wearg a <a href=" target="_blank">Carola Herrera</a> pe the rabow lors of the Pri flag. It offered a powerful riposte to all the night’s Baroque curlicu and gild ccifix, pecially given the church’s long—and ongog—history of silencg and subjugatg the LGBTQ+ muny. “I’m reppg my muny, and I want everybody to know that you n be whoever you are, and be pletely proud, and be dog ,” she told <em>Vogue</em> on the red rpet that night.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="zkjjn"></div></div><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Lena Wahe Clothg Apparel Human and Person" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Lena Wahe attends the 2018 Met Gala wearg Carola Herrera.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="3xhalq"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>In 2019, wh the theme of “mp” fg the eveng’s proceedgs, you might have expected more celebri to follow Wahe’s lead and embrace the theme as a chance to champn LGBTQ+ rights. Yet while the night was undoubtedly a celebratn of the history of queer culture and s impact on fashn, art, cema, and beyond, there weren’t many more overtly polil statements than ual. Ined, was Wahe who picked up the mantle once aga, teamg up wh <a href=" target="_blank">Kerby Jean-Raymond</a> of <a href=" target="_blank">Pyer Moss</a> to sport matchg pstripe sus embroired wh slogans: while Jean Raymond protted gentrifitn by enuragg Black muni to “pool money” and “buy back the block,” Wahe remd that “Black drag queens vented mp.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa hFkCrQ body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jKaRGx"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp clCaPq llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Lena Wahe Human Person Clothg Apparel Footwear Shoe Fashn and Premiere" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Lena Wahe and Kerby Jean-Raymond attend the 2019 Met Gala wearg Pyer Moss. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Human Person Footwear Shoe Fashn and Premiere" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>But last year, as many celebri returned to the red rpet after a COVID-mandated hiat, felt like the polil potential of the Met Gala was fally unleashed. Congrswoman Carolyn B. Maloney—who, to be fair, <em>did</em> wear a firefighter’s jacket to the 2019 gala <a href=" target="_blank"> honor of a bill</a> that she was backg—was one of the first to h the rpet an eye-poppg gown that paid tribute to the women’s sufage movement. (Her purse, which read “ERA Y,” advoted for the sex-based Equal Rights Amendment to be nsired as a nstutnal amendment.)</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Carolyn Maloney Clothg Apparel Human Person Fashn Robe and Gown" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Carolyn Maloney attends the 2021 Met Gala. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="hbkm"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Also flyg the flag for LGBTQ+ rights was <a href=" target="_blank">Dan Levy</a>, the star and -creator of <em>Scht’s Creek,</em> who wore an pecially flamboyant piece by Jonathan Anrson for <a href=" target="_blank">Loewe</a> that featured the work of the artist and AIDS activist <a href=" target="_blank">David Wojnarowicz</a>. (Two of Wojnarowicz’s piec were adapted, wh the permissn of his tate, to make up the embroired panel of two men kissg wh a map motif unrneath—a look f for a “gay superhero,” Levy and Anrson’s <a href=" target="_blank">words</a>.) <a href=" target="_blank">Megan Rapoe</a>’s star-spangled, red-blue-and-whe fantasia of a su, urty of <a href=" target="_blank">Serg Hudson</a>, ma stantly clear her tentns were a ltle tongue--cheek; the clutch she rried around read “ gay we tst.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa hFkCrQ body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jKaRGx"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp clCaPq llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Pants Human Person Daniel Levy Ftival Crowd and Sleeve" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Dan Levy attends the 2021 Met Gala wearg Loewe.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Megan Rapoe Clothg Apparel Su Coat Overat Fashn and Premiere" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Megan Rapoe attends the 2021 Met Gala wearg Serg Hudson.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>It’s easy to argue that one of the biggt nights on the fashn lendar—filled wh eye-poppg gowns crafted to the tune of many thoands of dollars—isn’t the most fortable bedfellow for a bold polil statement. So too do seem absurd to expect the majory of atten to step out fashn vered polil slogans: the Met Gala is a night when fashn obssiv n revel the fun and the ippery of cloth, even when an unrlyg msage might lend a look a ltle more be. But if there’s one thg any advote unrstands, ’s visibily—and there are few more closely watched stag than the steps of the Met on the first Monday May.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Which leads to what is arguably the biggt polil statement ever ma on the Met Gala red rpet: <a href=" target="_blank">Alexandria Os-Cortez</a>’s <a href=" target="_blank">appearance</a> last year. It was a risk to beg wh. Constant scty om right-wg punds about what she wears—take, for stance, the knee-jerk reactn to her signer su on the ver of <em>Vany Fair</em>—meant there was no way she uld step onto that red rpet whout g a ck. It’s not hard to see why she chose the drs she did. Wh a whe gown by the polilly outspoken Aurora Jam’s progrsive <a href=" target="_blank">Brother Velli</a> label—Jam is the mastermd behd the <a href=" target="_blank">15 Percent Pledge</a>, which has signed up a number of major retailers to m to votg a fed proportn of their shelf space to Black-owned brands—Os-Cortez seemed to shg off any ntroversy by statg, simply, “Tax the rich.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="4yzy0o"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Weddg Gown Gown Weddg Robe Fashn Human Person Eveng Drs and Runway" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Alexandria Os-Cortez attends the 2021 Met Gala wearg Brother Velli. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure><p>As if to unrsre the tentnally mpy souciance of the whole thg (the 32-year-old polician is a voted <em>RuPl’s Drag Race</em> fan, after all), a whe tulle fishtail skirt explod om unrneath the gown, and Os-Cortez only posed lookg over her shoulr. It was the kd of nudge-nudge act of trollg that only she uld pull off, and that you jt <em>know</em> drove her Republin lleagu apoplectic when they saw the photos.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Still, cheerg as all that may be, what feels the most important is seeg celebri e the platform afford by the global prs verage at the Met to advote for, and build visibily around, a polil that matters to them. Perhaps the most powerful polil statement om a Met Gala attene—at least terms of takg ncrete actn—me urty of Formula 1 driver <a href=">Lewis Haton</a>.</p><p>The st of a table at the Met Gala may well be for a good e, but for many up-and-g signers, ’s a prohibively expensive barrier to havg their cloth parad on the red rpet—and one that Haton knows all too well as a Black sportsman the predomantly whe dtry of Formula 1 racg. “We’re livg a time where diversy and cln is so important, and that’s why I started an anizatn wh my own sport,” Haton told <em>Vogue</em> last year. “I realized ’s very siar the fashn dtry. A lot of young brands and signers don’t have the same opportuni, so that’s what really set me off.” So what did Haton do? He bought a table at the gala and enlisted the crème of Black fashn talent to jo him, cludg <a href=" target="_blank">Theophil</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Kenh Nicholson</a>, and <a href=" target="_blank">Jason Rembert</a>, while also vg an illtr terie of stars to wear their signs, such as Kehlani, Alton Mason, and Sha’Carri Richardson.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa hFkCrQ body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jKaRGx"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Lewis Haton Human Person Mil ChamleyWatson Fashn Robe and Gown" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Mil Chamley-Watson, Kenh Nicholson, Lewis Haton, Law Roach, Kehlani, Jason Rembert, Sha’Carri Richardson, Edv Thompson, and Alton Mason attend the 2021 Met Gala.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>When pared wh lnchg an iative supportg next-generatn, polilly engaged signers, the ia of a slogan alone may seem to pale parison. But a red rpet star choosg to share a msage through their outf is valid too. That the cloth we wear hold polil signifince feels like a given now, but what a celebry choos to be seen when the spotlight is turned on them n still brg attentn to overlooked social and polil issu that may be close to their heart. For those steppg onto the global stage of the Met Gala red rpet this year—and beyond—let’s hope their willgns to spark polil nversatn through cloth is only jt begng.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="udm4xm"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><p>Disver more great stori om <em>Vogue:</em></p><ul><li>The Most Anticipated <a href=" target="_blank">TV Shows of 2022</a></li><li>Is <a href=" target="_blank">Rihanna Changg Pregnancy Style</a> 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kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>When the <a href=" target="_blank">Met Gala</a> was first tablished 1948, was maly as a means to raise money for the Metropolan Mm of Art’s Costume Instute—a mandate that remas to this day—although the fact that New York’s great and good also enjoy an opulent night out didn’t hurt s succs eher. </p><p>As the Met Gala has evolved over the past few s om a soirée enjoyed by a rarefied rner of Manhattan high society to one of the most hotly anticipated celebry events of the year (now closely watched by onlookers all over the world), the style prerequis for the red rpet have changed. Sure, the theme of each year’s exhibn provis a gui: om the renega looks that marked 2013’s “<a href=" target="_blank">Punk: Chaos to Couture</a>,” to the flounce and flamboyance of 2019’s “<a href=" target="_blank">Camp: Not on Fashn</a>,” to the “<a href=" target="_blank">gild glamour</a>” of this year’s gala, celebratg “<a href=">In Ameri: An Anthology of Fashn</a>.” But as the years have gone by, and the spotlight has grown ever more tense, stars wh a forthright polil outlook have regnized the night as a fom to share their prcipl and fundamental beliefs through clothg. While ’s never been unual for polil figur to walk the red rpet—jt take Hillary Clton’s appearance at the 2001 gala, tied to an exhibn on Jackie Kennedy’s Whe Hoe wardrobe— feels like there’s been a turng of the dial towards more explic polil msagg recently.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>Hats off here to <a href=" target="_blank">Lena Wahe</a>, who was one of the first off the mark. Back 2018, the filmmaker and actor fied nventn for the night’s theme of “<a href=" target="_blank">Heavenly Bodi: Fashn and the Catholic Imagatn</a>” by wearg a <a href=" target="_blank">Carola Herrera</a> pe the rabow lors of the Pri flag. It offered a powerful riposte to all the night’s Baroque curlicu and gild ccifix, pecially given the church’s long—and ongog—history of silencg and subjugatg the LGBTQ+ muny. “I’m reppg my muny, and I want everybody to know that you n be whoever you are, and be pletely proud, and be dog ,” she told <em>Vogue</em> on the red rpet that night.</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="zkjjn"></div></div><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Lena Wahe Clothg Apparel Human and Person" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Lena Wahe attends the 2018 Met Gala wearg Carola Herrera.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="3xhalq"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>In 2019, wh the theme of “mp” fg the eveng’s proceedgs, you might have expected more celebri to follow Wahe’s lead and embrace the theme as a chance to champn LGBTQ+ rights. Yet while the night was undoubtedly a celebratn of the history of queer culture and s impact on fashn, art, cema, and beyond, there weren’t many more overtly polil statements than ual. Ined, was Wahe who picked up the mantle once aga, teamg up wh <a href=" target="_blank">Kerby Jean-Raymond</a> of <a href=" target="_blank">Pyer Moss</a> to sport matchg pstripe sus embroired wh slogans: while Jean Raymond protted gentrifitn by enuragg Black muni to “pool money” and “buy back the block,” Wahe remd that “Black drag queens vented mp.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa hFkCrQ body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jKaRGx"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp clCaPq llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Lena Wahe Human Person Clothg Apparel Footwear Shoe Fashn and Premiere" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Lena Wahe and Kerby Jean-Raymond attend the 2019 Met Gala wearg Pyer Moss. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Human Person Footwear Shoe Fashn and Premiere" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>But last year, as many celebri returned to the red rpet after a COVID-mandated hiat, felt like the polil potential of the Met Gala was fally unleashed. Congrswoman Carolyn B. Maloney—who, to be fair, <em>did</em> wear a firefighter’s jacket to the 2019 gala <a href=" target="_blank"> honor of a bill</a> that she was backg—was one of the first to h the rpet an eye-poppg gown that paid tribute to the women’s sufage movement. (Her purse, which read “ERA Y,” advoted for the sex-based Equal Rights Amendment to be nsired as a nstutnal amendment.)</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Carolyn Maloney Clothg Apparel Human Person Fashn Robe and Gown" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Carolyn Maloney attends the 2021 Met Gala. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="hbkm"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Also flyg the flag for LGBTQ+ rights was <a href=" target="_blank">Dan Levy</a>, the star and -creator of <em>Scht’s Creek,</em> who wore an pecially flamboyant piece by Jonathan Anrson for <a href=" target="_blank">Loewe</a> that featured the work of the artist and AIDS activist <a href=" target="_blank">David Wojnarowicz</a>. (Two of Wojnarowicz’s piec were adapted, wh the permissn of his tate, to make up the embroired panel of two men kissg wh a map motif unrneath—a look f for a “gay superhero,” Levy and Anrson’s <a href=" target="_blank">words</a>.) <a href=" target="_blank">Megan Rapoe</a>’s star-spangled, red-blue-and-whe fantasia of a su, urty of <a href=" target="_blank">Serg Hudson</a>, ma stantly clear her tentns were a ltle tongue--cheek; the clutch she rried around read “ gay we tst.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa hFkCrQ body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jKaRGx"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp clCaPq llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Pants Human Person Daniel Levy Ftival Crowd and Sleeve" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Dan Levy attends the 2021 Met Gala wearg Loewe.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Megan Rapoe Clothg Apparel Su Coat Overat Fashn and Premiere" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Megan Rapoe attends the 2021 Met Gala wearg Serg Hudson.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>It’s easy to argue that one of the biggt nights on the fashn lendar—filled wh eye-poppg gowns crafted to the tune of many thoands of dollars—isn’t the most fortable bedfellow for a bold polil statement. So too do seem absurd to expect the majory of atten to step out fashn vered polil slogans: the Met Gala is a night when fashn obssiv n revel the fun and the ippery of cloth, even when an unrlyg msage might lend a look a ltle more be. But if there’s one thg any advote unrstands, ’s visibily—and there are few more closely watched stag than the steps of the Met on the first Monday May.</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Which leads to what is arguably the biggt polil statement ever ma on the Met Gala red rpet: <a href=" target="_blank">Alexandria Os-Cortez</a>’s <a href=" target="_blank">appearance</a> last year. It was a risk to beg wh. Constant scty om right-wg punds about what she wears—take, for stance, the knee-jerk reactn to her signer su on the ver of <em>Vany Fair</em>—meant there was no way she uld step onto that red rpet whout g a ck. It’s not hard to see why she chose the drs she did. Wh a whe gown by the polilly outspoken Aurora Jam’s progrsive <a href=" target="_blank">Brother Velli</a> label—Jam is the mastermd behd the <a href=" target="_blank">15 Percent Pledge</a>, which has signed up a number of major retailers to m to votg a fed proportn of their shelf space to Black-owned brands—Os-Cortez seemed to shg off any ntroversy by statg, simply, “Tax the rich.”</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="4yzy0o"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Weddg Gown Gown Weddg Robe Fashn Human Person Eveng Drs and Runway" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Alexandria Os-Cortez attends the 2021 Met Gala wearg Brother Velli. </span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure><p>As if to unrsre the tentnally mpy souciance of the whole thg (the 32-year-old polician is a voted <em>RuPl’s Drag Race</em> fan, after all), a whe tulle fishtail skirt explod om unrneath the gown, and Os-Cortez only posed lookg over her shoulr. It was the kd of nudge-nudge act of trollg that only she uld pull off, and that you jt <em>know</em> drove her Republin lleagu apoplectic when they saw the photos.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Still, cheerg as all that may be, what feels the most important is seeg celebri e the platform afford by the global prs verage at the Met to advote for, and build visibily around, a polil that matters to them. Perhaps the most powerful polil statement om a Met Gala attene—at least terms of takg ncrete actn—me urty of Formula 1 driver <a href=">Lewis Haton</a>.</p><p>The st of a table at the Met Gala may well be for a good e, but for many up-and-g signers, ’s a prohibively expensive barrier to havg their cloth parad on the red rpet—and one that Haton knows all too well as a Black sportsman the predomantly whe dtry of Formula 1 racg. “We’re livg a time where diversy and cln is so important, and that’s why I started an anizatn wh my own sport,” Haton told <em>Vogue</em> last year. “I realized ’s very siar the fashn dtry. A lot of young brands and signers don’t have the same opportuni, so that’s what really set me off.” So what did Haton do? He bought a table at the gala and enlisted the crème of Black fashn talent to jo him, cludg <a href=" target="_blank">Theophil</a>, <a href=" target="_blank">Kenh Nicholson</a>, and <a href=" target="_blank">Jason Rembert</a>, while also vg an illtr terie of stars to wear their signs, such as Kehlani, Alton Mason, and Sha’Carri Richardson.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa hFkCrQ body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT jKaRGx"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Lewis Haton Human Person Mil ChamleyWatson Fashn Robe and Gown" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE bViSGz ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI fmQnYP asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnText-bHjzlu iUEiRd fITBRd iXWezO ptn__text">Mil Chamley-Watson, Kenh Nicholson, Lewis Haton, Law Roach, Kehlani, Jason Rembert, Sha’Carri Richardson, Edv Thompson, and Alton Mason attend the 2021 Met Gala.</span><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd ftKqkn fNaHcW ptn__cred">Photo: Getty Imag</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>When pared wh lnchg an iative supportg next-generatn, polilly engaged signers, the ia of a slogan alone may seem to pale parison. But a red rpet star choosg to share a msage through their outf is valid too. That the cloth we wear hold polil signifince feels like a given now, but what a celebry choos to be seen when the spotlight is turned on them n still brg attentn to overlooked social and polil issu that may be close to their heart. For those steppg onto the global stage of the Met Gala red rpet this year—and beyond—let’s hope their willgns to spark polil nversatn through cloth is only jt begng.</p></div></div></div></div><div class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="udm4xm"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa dUONRr body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><hr/><p>Disver more great stori om <em>Vogue:</em></p><ul><li>The Most Anticipated <a href=" target="_blank">TV Shows of 2022</a></li><li>Is <a href=" target="_blank">Rihanna Changg Pregnancy Style</a> 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