Winner of Best Look at the 2025 Met Gala

The 2025 Met Gala took place last night.

I wasn’t there. Again.

I know…I know. But I just didn’t feel like spending a reported $75K on a ticket. I mean, for that kind of money, I could pay someone’s salary for a year.
Or buy three Honda Civics
OR, more importantly, purchase 18,796 bags of Buc-ee’s Beaver Nuggets.

To my mind, any of the above is a better investment than paying $75k to watch someone walk the red carpet in an outfit that looks like it lost a fight with an arts and crafts store.
But hey- that’s just me. A lot of folks really look forward to the Met Gala and 2025 did not disappoint. The event was filled with the usual suspects making the usual abstract fashion statements.

There were lots of feathers. Ballgown trains longer than TSA lines. Velvet. Tulle. Wire. Hats that could pick up satellite signals. Outfits that appeared to be missing, well, half of the outfit.

Demi Moore came dressed as a necktie. No, not wearing a necktie but AS a necktie.
I have no answers.

But the winner of the night for the best look? Hands down, no contest?

MADONNA.

Not because she wore something outrageous. She didn’t arrive encased in Swarovski crystals. She didn’t wear a chandelier. Or a cloak made of statements. Or the skin of her dancers. Oh no. She did something FAR MORE shocking:
that girl exercised taste.

In a move that had me clapping hard, and yelling “Atta girl!” into my Beaver Nuggets, Madonna walked the Met Gala carpet with a natural looking face.
No, this is not a joke. You read that correctly.

While everyone else was trying to add stuff to their look: ruffles, capes, 5 million hand sewn glass beads, Madonna went the opposite direction. She arrived at the Met Gala not under 100lbs of peacock feathers or teetering on 12” heels, but with cheekbones that hadn’t been visible since the Reagan administration.

After years of cheeks doubling as weather balloons, Madonna removed the implants.
Gone.
And BAM!
There she was. The Madonna we remember.
Not storing nuts for the winter. Not hidden behind filler and silicon, but right there. Cheekbones no longer doubling as flotation devices.
Cheekbones back in their rightful place, like a historic landmark, finally restored.

Her look was the boldest thing on that red carpet, proving that that the most daring thing anyone could wear to the Met Gala this year is…wait for it… THEIR ACTUAL FACE.

And Madonna wore it better than anyone.

Unless, of course, Carol Burnett had showed up. In which case, sorry Madge, but game over.
GAME OVER.