“It’s about politics, privilege” and wealth

She also acknowledged that she never received an invitation, but insisted that even if she did receive one, she would not go because she does not wish to support such a display of wealth and privilege.

“If it were about fashion, I’d be in it, but it’s not,” Fox said The Daily Mail, which has become something of a fashion icon in recent years with its unique and often self-created styles. “It’s about politics, privilege, who your parents are and how much money you make.”

She took aim at Anna Wintour, who has run the event since 1995, and said it was time for the 73-year-old Fashion Editor to resign. “She just won’t stop,” Fox said. “How much longer will she last?”

In fact, she said the Met Gala “never spoke to me,” adding, “I mean, look at who’s running it.”

One of Fox’s critiques of Wintour’s tenure in general, which has made the Met Gala one of the major social events of the year, is that she feels Wintour aligned Vogue and the Met Gala to be “more about.” Commerce than art.”

“There’s a break,” she explained. “American Vogue isn’t my favorite: it needs to be funnier, fresher, and more energetic.” One of Fox’s solutions is to ditch big celebrities and “nepo-babies” at the Met Gala, replacing them with designers and artists instead that should be celebrated.

“The Met Gala has a gatekeeper vibe,” she explained. “I don’t rank people in my mind based on who their parents are or how much money they have: the Met isn’t exclusive, it’s exclusionary.”

Hoping to ward off likely naysayers to her comments, who will grumble that she’s just upset that she wasn’t invited, Fox said, “I don’t want to sound like my butt hurts — I love the Met — but I want to do more for more designers and people who don’t have the same privilege to be seen and heard.”

To that end, Fox said she’s actually working on developing some sort of counter-gala that will support fashion designers and “fund underprivileged people and single mothers.”

She also had a message for anyone tuning in to the event who is somehow concerned about the celebrities in attendance or the evening in general. “I just want to say that people don’t aspire to be like these people,” she said. “Strive to be yourself. There’s a little boy or girl who looks at me and isn’t ashamed – fashion and art are about vision.”

While Fox wasn’t shy about sharing her grievances about the event in general, she also took aim at this year’s theme, which was a tribute to the late designer Karl Logerfeld.

Lagerfeld – who died in 2019 at the age of 85 – has faced multiple criticisms his controversial comments and beliefs, including those related to the #MeToo movement, sexual assault, migrants and LGBTQ rights. He was also accused of Islamaphobia and especially fat phobia.

Fox called on the Met Gala to honor someone who “upheld the ideals of supremacy and imperialism.” She then pointed out the lack of diversity seen at this year’s event, noting, “There weren’t any trans people of color or even trans people there.”

Fox’s comments come after Jameela Jamil also took aim at this year’s Met Gala event and its Lagerfeld theme during a sit-down interview on “The View.”

“Last night, Hollywood and the fashion world said the quiet part out loud as many famous feminists decided to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to obese people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors.” she posted about Instagram on Tuesday.

“And all the women’s publications and online viewers chose to gleefully ignore it,” she continued. “All of a sudden your appetite for finding someone’s tweets when they were 12 is gone.”

“No one has perfect morals, least of all I, but Jesus Christ, we’ve had a year to correct course here and not give a well-known fanatic the highest honor possible,” she added, “and everyone suddenly decided that we can separate the art from the artist when it’s *convenient*.”

Her message ended: “It’s one rule for us and another rule for everyone else. Last night we gave up our right to be taken seriously at all about anything important.”

In her caption, she elaborated further on her decision to speak out – saying her post isn’t really about “abort culture” or Lagerfeld himself, but rather to point out how “selective abort culture is within liberal politics, in which the craziest way so far.”

“It’s about showing why people don’t trust liberals. Because of slippery tactics and double standards like that,” she continued. “And it’s not just Hollywood here, the online public at large lent a hand last night and fully participated in the erasure of the truth.

She ended her post with a warning: “If we continue like this, don’t be shocked if we lose the next election.”