Rihanna, Paul Giamatti stun at Met Gala
NEW YORK, N.Y.—Heads turned last night as the leading lights of art, glamour, and fashion converged upon the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Met Gala.
And predictably, nobody made a bigger splash than Rihanna and Paul Giamatti, two individuals who have constantly reinvented what it means to be stylish.
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Rihanna wowed in an eye-catching sculptural Commes des Garçons dress by Rei Kawakubo and high-lacing sandals — an outfit that was praised for adhering to the year's theme.
Giamatti, meanwhile, made a fashionably late entrance, as he had been returning a DVD to a Redbox machine. (For those Giamatti fanatics who need to know every detail about the great man's life, it was reportedly Reindeer Games, though the Sideways star was coy when asked.)
However, the second he did arrive on the scene wearing a comfortable flannel shirt with some jogging pants that had clearly been recently laundered, the game was officially changed.
Potato chip crumbs?
Absolutely nowhere to be found.
Rumpled baseball cap?
No.
Neatly. Combed. Hair.
Asked for comment on Giamatti's look, fellow fashion icon Jaden Smith could only bow down in mock surrender.
"Look," said Smith, "we all know he's the king. You just try to express yourself, you try to experiment and be bold in the way that he's shown us. But you know that on the night, you're going to take a backseat. That's just the way it is, that's the way it's always been."
At press time, assembled journalists gasped, trying to figure out the meaning of the spinach that seemed to be strategically placed between Giamatti's teeth.
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