Jameela Jamil mocks 'famous feminists' celebrating 'bigot' at Met Gala

03 May 2023 , 11:04

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Jameela Jamil mocks 'famous feminists' celebrating 'bigot' at Met Gala

Jameela Jamil has called out the 2023 Met Gala as it honoured the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld.

She condemned the decision to honour him, calling out the "famous feminists" who went to the annual event.

Ahead of the special night, Vogue announced that the theme for event would be: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.

The exhibit at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute was set to "examine the life - and creative legacy - of the late designer, who shaped the face of fashion for more than half a century".

Following Monday's Met Gala, Jameela posted on her Instagram story saying: "Last night, Hollywood and fashion said the quiet part out loud when a lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and to sexual assault survivors. And all the women’s publications, and spectators online, chose to gleefully ignore it.

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Jameela Jamil has called out the 2023 Met Gala (Getty Images)

Jameela called out the 2023 Met Gala theme (WireImage)

"Suddenly your appetite to find someone’s tweets from when they were 12, has gone. Nobody has perfect morals, least of all me, but Jesus Christ we had a year to course correct here, and not award the highest honor possible to a known bigot…and everyone just decided all of a sudden we can separate the art from the artist when *convenient*."

She continued: "And it’s one rule for us, and another rule for everybody else. Last night we relinquished our right to be taken at all seriously about anything important."

Karl Lagerfeld was the theme of the Met Gala

The Good Place actress talked about the theme in October 2022, when she called out the German designer for the times he spoke in a "distinctly hateful" way, which she acknowledged was "mostly towards women".

At the time she shared a black-and-white portrait of Karl Lagerfeld, writing: "Nope."

Karl Lagerfeld died in 2019

In her caption, she said: "Karl Lagerfeld is the theme for the entire Met Gala next year.

"This man... was indeed, supremely talented, but used his platform in such a distinctly hateful way, mostly towards women, so repeatedly and up until the last years of his life, showing no remorse, offering no atonement, no apology, no help to groups he attacked... there was no explanation for his cruel outbursts."

Charlotte Everett