The Daily Reid: the resistance is fly and dandy

Art and fashion stood its ground at the Met Gala ... while the warnings about the technofeudalist autocrats are ringing louder and louder

May 06, 2025

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Unknown (American). [Studio Portrait], 1940s–50s. Gelatin silver print. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Twentieth-Century Photography Fund, 2015 (2015.330) Source: Vogue.

At its best, art is subversive and loud, even when it is silent and mainly visual. Fashion, at its best, is art that’s like that. The Met Gala 2025 was about that life. And wh…

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