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Karen Elson And Jeremy Scott's 20th Met Gala Anniversary Moment Shows They're Even Better Together
When plotting out their Met Gala 2021 looks, Jeremy Scott and Karen Elson, two frequent co-conspirators of unapologetically individual fashion, came across a picture of their first time at the ball together. It was taken two decades ago. It dawned on the designer and his muse that their 20th anniversary red-carpet moment had to be big. Huge, in fact. And so, Jeremy did what he does best and conjured up the most fantastical of gowns for Karen, who calls this year's Moschino Met moment the grand finale of their work together so far.
"Jeremy's superpower is that he always finds a way to make fashion just really enjoyable; every moment with him is fun," says Elson, who met Scott through the model Devon Aoki while filling in for her on one of the early Jeremy Scott runways when she was doing her finals. Taking a chance on an up-and-coming designer paid off for Karen; the connection was instantaneous. "I felt his creativity and his spirit, and I loved his imagination," she recalls, adding: "I understood him. We're both from working class backgrounds." Elson went on to walk in more Jeremy Scott and Moschino shows than any other model, bar Aoki.
"I don't need to tell you fashion is fickle," chimes in Scott, who likewise fell head over heels for the redhead from Oldham. "Models don't have that kind of longevity, nor designers. The fact that we formed a friendship and a creative partnership [Elson recently starred in a mini Moschino musical for autumn/winter 2021], is magical." The allure of the original super, who has multiple strings to her bow, lies in her chameleonic quality. "She inhabits so many different kinds of personas; but she's still recognisable. Some people get lost in the translation, but Karen shines through. That really only happens for certain individuals, like Rihanna."
Dialling up the drama for his personal icon, who he likens to Rita Hayworth in Gilda – incidentally the best compliment Karen has ever received – was not an issue when it came to the Met Gala 2021. "Jeremy is one of those rare people, in the sense that his creativity knows no bounds," smiles Karen, who believes the Moschino showman thrived during the pandemic thanks to his limitless imagination (see his wonderfully kitsch marionette show and full-production fashion film for further details). "He can make a hot dog costume look like high fashion. And well, amen to that."
Elson is not wearing a burger bun (so Katy Perry two years ago), but a pink crystal-choked Old Hollywood gown with a sci-fi twist. "It's totally fitted and snatched for the gods, but it looks almost cracked, like a diamond broken in half," enthuses Jeremy. "In one way, it's very Old Hollywood, but there's a little Star Trek glamour to it. It's as if one of those goddesses from another planet zoomed in to take over the mothership." Karen's verdict? "I feel like I'm in a '40s or '50s musical, and it's the show-stopping moment," she quite literally sings down the phone.
"I like to say I get better with age," continues Elson. "And I really think it's the same for Jeremy." Watching the pair glitter in this wonderfully wild and serendipitous Met Gala vignette, it's hard to disagree. Maybe they really do have superpowers.
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The family and friends of Australian model Sinead McNamara have paid their final respects at a funeral for the 20-year-old who died after being found tangled in rope at the stern of a billionaire's superyacht in Greece.
The Instagram influencer from NSW was unable to be revived after she was discovered on the Mayan Queen IV, on August 31, while the vessel was moored in the port of Argostoli off the Greek island of Kefalonia.
Ms McNamara had been working as a crew member on the six-storey vessel, valued at about $US140 million ($A196 million) and owned by billionaire Mexican mining magnate Alberto Bailleres.
She could not be revived while en route to hospital, and died hours before she was due to see family members.
In a post to her own Facebook page on August 26, Ms McNamara said "excitement is an understatement" and was counting down to seeing her sister, Lauren Carr, in five days.
The adventurous young Australian, who had a penchant for visiting beautiful waterways, documented her international travels on Instagram for months including to Greece, Alaska, Indonesia and the Caribbean.
She amassed tens of thousands of followers on the social media platform.
Her exact cause of death is yet to be confirmed and won't be announced until laboratory test results are known.
Greek coroner Ilias Bogiokas, who conducted the autopsy on Ms McNamara's body, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that the death "came about from a hanging" and her body did not have any injuries.
Ms McNamara was farewelled by hundreds on Saturday at Innes Gardens Memorial Park in Port Macquarie, and later Bonny Hills Surf Life Saving Club, with the dress code of "wear what Sinead would want you to wear".
"We all knew and loved her in different aspects of life so whether that's bright and fun, road trip attire, formal, surfy, boat attire or whatever it is that brought you and her together, that is what we would like you to wear," her brother, Jake McNamara, said in a public post on his Facebook page earlier this week.
Her family encouraged those unable to make it to "beautiful" Ms McNamara's "celebration of her life and farewell" to take a moment by their closest ocean at 1pm to remember special moments they shared with her.
Photos from the farewell show a large paddle-out of surfers under blue skies off nearby Rainbow Beach.


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