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Trailer: The First Monday in May
This new documentary gives a behind-the-scenes look at the ultra exclusive Met Gala so you can sit back and pretend like you scored an invite to the party of the year.
PT2M33S 620 349After having a taste of the big screen with The September Issue and Zoolander 2 , straight-talking, no-nonsense, sunglasses aficionado Anna Wintour is back, this time with The First Monday in May.
The documentary gives ordinary folk a look behind the scenes at the uber exclusive Met Gala 2015, the most extravagantly fashionable soiree of the year with an A-list guest list that would make your eyes water.
Anna Wintour throws shade so good in new documentary The First Monday of May, it's worthy of a Devil Wears Prada 2. Photo: George Pimentel
"The Met Ball is the Super Bowl of social fashion events," former editor-at-large for US Vogue , Andre Leon Talley, says in the Andrew Rossi-directed doc that had its debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on Wednesday night.
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Also often dubbed the "fashion Oscars" or possibly more aptly "Anna Wintour's party", the Met Gala is themed according to the organisation's annual exhibit in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which last year focused on Asian art and was dubbed, China: Through the Looking Glass .
"���This show is going to be controversial, but I'm not afraid of controversy," Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton said, and he wasn't wrong.
Burn: Wintour denounces an unnamed, tech-loving guest, who said he was not going to attend, but then changed his mind. (Don't you just hate when people do that?) Photo: The First Monday in May
Part of the theme focuses on the wrangling with the Met's Asian art department, who feared that the show and costumes would overwhelm the art. It also had to deal with a minefield of sensitivity about the West's historical appropriation and misrepresentation of the culture.
"It's not Disneyland," a voice was heard uttering off-screen.
But Chanel's head honcho, Karl Lagerfeld, will stand for no shade. "What we do is applied art," he said, as he sat in a backwards-facing chair.
Bitch Better Have my Money: Other gossipy goodness includes Rihanna's over-budget fee. Photo: The First Monday in May
Some will watch for the art and the decadent, detailed costumes that will fill the screen, others will be satisfied by the gossip. It's basically the people-watching opportunity that you have always dreamed of featuring Kim Kardashian, Kanye West, Jennifer Lawrence, Madonna, Katy Perry, and George and Amal Clooney.
But it will also leave you with a serious case of FOMO.
Wintour ��� by name and nature
Some will watch for the art and the decadent, detailed costumes, others will be satisfied by the gossip. Photo: Getty Images
Speaking of shade, Wintour throws some of her best moves worthy of a Devil Wears Prada 2 , especially when she denounces an unnamed, tech-loving guest, who said he was not going to attend, but then changed his mind. (Don't you just hate when people do that?)
The stern British matriarch is seen scouring the seating chart and when she spots his name (that was blurred out on request), she asks Sylvana Durrett, Vogue 's director of special projects, "I thought he wasn't coming?"
"I know, but then he decided he wanted to come," she tells Wintour.
2015 Met Gala arrivals
It's the Oscars of the fashion world. Here's what the A-List wore to the 2015 Met Gala, themed: 'China: Through the Looking Glass.' Photo: Getty Images
"OK, can he not be on his cellphone the entire time, then?" the editor-in-chief says.
"Loud and clear," the staffer tells her boss.
Rumours were afloat that it could have been bad-boy-turned-good-boy-turned-bad-boy-again Justin Bieber, butare reporting that it was Ricky Van Veen ... Who? Girls star Allison Williams' (aka Marnie Michaels) husband and co-founder of CollegeHumor .
Former 00s hottie Josh Hartnett��� of Pearl Harbour fame didn't escape a stinging burn either.
"We have Dave Franco. And who's the other one you were saying? Josh Hartnett? What has he done lately? Nothing," Durrett also says. "You guys are all set. You have Kendall."
'Like high school'
Chloe Sevigny was next on the hit list. The former fashion IT girl was a victim of bad seating and found herself pushed to the back at a table Wintour had previously singled out for its lack of star power.
"Oh my god, I'm going to be all by my lonesome, just like high school," she said, looking at the empty table.
Other gossipy goodness includes Rihanna's over-budget fee for her performance, but as the girl says herself, Bitch Better Have my Money.
Also, the new Mrs Clooney completely blanks Talley, who was on the red carpet with a camera crew.
Perhaps Larry David said it best when faced with the daunting red carpet: "What this f--- is this?"