Extreme visibility has historically been the name of the game on the Meta Gala’s celebrity-packed red carpet, but this year some guests hid (or at least obscured) their biggest asset: Their faces.
It started with the eye masks. Rachel Zegler, dressed in Prabal Gurung and referencing Paul Delaroche’s 19th century painting of Lady Jane Grey, wore a gauzy recreation of the young queen of England’s execution blindfold.
Then in a more obvious act of provocation, wearing a frayed tulle ball gown, Sarah Paulson arrived “blinded by money” — her eyes covered with leather dollar bill designed by avant garde Parisian label Matières Fécales. (In what is likely a comment on the Bezos-related controversy…