The Met Is Pissed At Celebs Smoking In Their Bathrooms

The fashion-fest was #lit. Literally.

Bek Day
WhimnMay 5, 20178:46am

Kylie broke the internet with her bathroom selfie. Image: Kylie Jenner/InstagramSource:Whimn

In the post Met Gala wash-up, a number of key trends emerged: the omnipotence of red; the popularity of backless dresses, and in the less chic column, the eternal lure of cool girls smoking in the toilets.

After years of celebs and models spruiking Gwyneth-esque #cleaneating all over social media, the 2017 Met Gala saw a return to the grunge and edginess of the nineties in more ways than one.

Instagram posts from the ultra exclusive shindig revealed the quite honestly shocking truth: the It crowd seemed to spend most of the evening slumped in the loos, sucking back ciggies.

I know. How retro.

Now it's been revealed that the Met's donor and trustees are fuming (lol, don't hate me), because it turns out smoke and priceless art works just don't mix. They're pissed the A-listers flouted a raft of rules and laws and naughtily lit up wherever they damn well pleased. According to Page Six, some of the trustees are even calling for Hollywood's great and good should be fined.

Here's Marc Jacobs casually lighting up with Courtney Love and Frances Bean Cobain, which, OK, is not THAT surprising, but they're far from the only ones.

Dakota Johnson openly sparked up, as did Rami Malek and Rita Ora.

Bella Hadid, Lara Stone, Paris Jackson and Ruby Rose got in on the action, and I don't know what's more shocking - the ciggies or the fact that there's a house-deposit's worth of designer gowns resting unceremoniously on grotty loo tiles.

Ashley Graham snapped Adwoa Aboah, Slick Woods and Jourdan Dunn and while I die for how fierce the ladies in this photo are, I cry for their poor lungs. And gowns (#ciggiestench).

Seriously, the bathrooms look like David Blaine dropped by with a smoke bomb and used mind control to make all the millennial celebs forget the last 20 years of health education.

Perhaps it's because smoking has become so out of vogue in the past decade that younger celebs haven't been exposed to the anti-smoking message with quite so much vigour as previous generations. Maybe the trend towards nineties grunge has people romanticising the Kate Moss heroin chic aesthetic. It could be that the all-out chaos that is the US political climate and the impending threat of nuclear war has led to a collective throwing up of hands and a decision to throw caution to the wind.

But let's get real: 1.5 million women die globally every year from tobacco use. Us ladies also make up 64% of second-hand smoking related deaths - you know like if you spent hour upon hour slouched against cold tiles in high-fashion taking impromptu, boastful selfies while supermodels puffed away around you.

Whatever the reason, it's not a great message to be sending to a social media-obsessed generation of impressionable kids. I get it, I sound like a total prude, and far be it for me to fun-police half of Hollywood, but you know what else isn't fun? Life on a ventilator.

Bek Day is whimn's weekend editor and writes about everything from parenting and feminism to weird food mashups and nineties nostalgia. When not writing, she can be found hanging out on the beach with her family or pursuing her life's work, a passionate search for Sydney's crunchiest hot chip. Follow her on Twitter: @bek_day, Instagram @bekdayand Facebook.

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