The 2018 Met Gala was slammed by some Catholics who felt its religious theme was "offensive" and "disrespectful," but they didn’t get a lot of help from the archbishop of New York who said he felt the overall event was all about “truth, goodness and beauty.”
The Monday night fashion bash in New York City saw celebrity A-listers go all out with outfits coordinated around the Met Gala's “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” theme.
Some apparently didn't see the memo to try to tone down their outfits.
While Rihanna, Katy Perry and Madonna may have won nods of approval from the fashion world with their over-the-top outfits, many on social media felt that a line was crossed, Yahoo Lifestyle reported.
"Am I the only one who sees #MetGala2018 #MetGala as blasphemy to Christianity?," one Twitter user noted.
"Why are these people so eager to blaspheme Catholicism? And why with such glee?," another person tweeted.
In defense of the criticism that flooded social media, Met Gala curator Andrew Bolton explained that celebrities were handed a dress code prior to the event as "an implicit plea to dress somewhat more modestly," Fox News reported.
Timothy Cardinal Dolan, the archbishop of New York, conceded the Catholic Church had prior knowledge of the holy-fashion affair.
“You may be asking, what is the cardinal archbishop of New York doing here? I asked that when I was invited several months ago,’’ he said at a morning press conference prior to the Met Gala, The New York Post’s Page Six reported.
“But think about it just for a moment. It’s because the church and the Catholic imagination — the theme of this exhibit — are all about three things: truth, goodness and beauty. That’s why we’re into things such as art, culture, music, literature and, yes, even fashion.’’
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