Digested week: Anti-Trumpism at the Met Gala – and some amazing gnashers | Emma Brockes

Steve Carell’s mouth outshines even Tina Fey in Netflix comedy while billionaire Barry Diller comes outMore by happenstance than planning, perhaps, the Met Gala, which took place in New York on Monday night, struck a note that seemed stridently to oppose Donald Trump. The theme of the evening, devised to advertise the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, was Black dandyism – an apparently defiant push back against Trump’s executive order removing initiatives to promote, “so called ‘under-represented groups’.” Even if the theme had been planned before Trump’s re-election, it was surely great to see. Continue reading...

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