AOC Wears Major Political Statement To The Met Gala

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to the 2021 Met Gala on Monday night with a vivid pink message for Americans: "Tax the Rich."

Dressed in a white off-the-shoulder robe via way of means of Brooklyn-primarily based totally clothier emblem Brother Vellies, the New York baby-kisser discovered the statement, scrawled in ambitious lettering at the again of her get dressed, as she ascended the stairs of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Making her Met Gala debut, Ocasio-Cortez finished the appearance with trademark gold hoops and an unmarried purple flower pinned into her hair bun.

Speaking to journalists on the occasion, she defined why she had added her message to the Met Gala, an occasion attended via way of means of a lot of Hollywood's biggest -- and wealthiest -- stars.

"When we communicate approximately assisting running households and whilst we communicate approximately having an honest tax code, usually this verbal exchange is taking place amongst running and center magnificence people (on) the senate floor.

"I suppose it is time we convey all lessons into the verbal exchange," she continued.

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Ocasio-Cortez's preference for white echoed the lengthy records of American congresswomen carrying the color in connection with the girls' suffrage movement. She wore a white match to her swearing-in rite in 2019, later pronouncing on Twitter that it changed into in honor of "the girls who paved the course earlier than me, and for all of the girls but to come."

Ocasio-Cortez changed into joined at the cream-colored pink carpet via way of means of Brother Vellies' innovative director Aurora James, who's recognized for spearheading an initiative called the "15% Pledge." The pledge, which commenced on Instagram, urges stores and organizations to dedicate 15% of their shopping electricity to assisting Black-owned businesses.

There had been different ambitious statements on display on the annual fundraiser, which generates cash for the Met's Costume Institute and borrows its subject from the museum's modern exhibition (this year, "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion"). Earlier, football big name Megan Rapinoe changed into visible wearing a take hold of which read "In Gay We Trust," even as Ocasio-Cortez's fellow Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney arrived in a colorful get dressed blanketed in the ambitious textual content which read "Equal Rights for Women."

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On Twitter, Maloney addressed her ambitious outfit, which celebrates the nineteenth amendment, granting girls the proper to vote. She wrote: "Across the country, girls' rights are below attack."

"As the Met Costume Institute reopens (with its) inaugural showcase celebrating American designers, I am calling four the certification of the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) so girls may be identified as soon as and for all," she continued.

Other stars interpreted the all-American subject via way of means of harking back to US icons, channeling vintage Hollywood, and paying tribute to the country's melting pot of numerous cultures.