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Everything's Psychology

The Psychology of The Met Gala

May 6, 202634 min · 4,775 words

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Every year, on the first Monday of May, something extraordinary happens. 450 of the world's most powerful, most beautiful, most photographed people climb a set of steps in Manhattan — and the internet collectively loses it’s mind. The Met Gala is billed as an exclusive charity fundraiser where tickets cost seventy-five thousand dollars.

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fashion is our second skin. Fashion is next to our bodies. We actually feel fashion.
like any language, if we're not fluent in that language, we're not going to be able to understand it in the way intended.
fashion allows us to do both simultaneously. It allows us to both belong and stand out at the same time.
we make these judgments, first impressions, in under a second, in a matter of milliseconds. And those are formed on very, very superfluous visual aspects.

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