The Daily Show, but make it fashion. Join in as we dissect the highs and lows of high fashion. Trevor Noah recaps the best and worst of the looks at the Met Gala. Roy Wood Jr. dives into the history of black contributions to fashion in an installment of CP Time. Mo Rocca digs into a one-man fashion protest. Trevor and Desi Lydic show off the controversial Ivanka Trump line. Trevor insists we have a Met Gala at home. Desi finds out Why We Celebrate New York Fashion Week. Finally, Jordan Klepper takes a look at the looks at the Met Gala and wants to be carried up the stairs.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: What were the highlights of the Met Gala?
Hey, what's going on, everybody? Welcome to the show. I'm Trevor Noah. Let's kick things off. Yesterday was the Met Gala. It's Party City on LSD. And this year, the looks were as wild as ever.
The Met Gala began with a bang from the Brooklyn United Marching Band, and from there, the steps became a who's who of fashion, movies, and music. The theme is celebrating American fashion, and these guests understood the assignment. Hosts Billie Eilish and Naomi Osaka stunned in their larger-than-life outfits, and Lil Nas X shut down the steps with his costume changes.
We asked, what does it mean to be two working-class women showing up to the Met? And so we decided if we're going to do it, we're going to send a message. That's great.
Even Mayor de Blasio made his first appearance. Red, white, and blue were the colors of the night, as was anything sparkly, with the exception of Kim Kardashian, who came in all black everything.
Okay, I don't care what anybody says, man. You know you've killed the game when you can step out covered head to toe and everyone still recognizes you. Shit, I don't even recognize some of my friends when they're wearing a mask, but Kim Kardashian climbs up the stairs looking like a video game character you haven't unlocked yet, and we're all like, I'd know that shape anywhere! It's Kim!
Yeah, it's Kim! And there were so many amazing outfits last night, you know? Erykah Badu came looking like an astronaut at a funeral. Dan Levy came as an angry throw pillow. Oh, and this one was one of my favorites. Kevin Hart, he brought a life-size doll of Frank Ocean. I mean, that was genius. I didn't even think that... Wait, that's not the... Oh, shit, my bad.
And this is what I love about the Met Gala, right? Is that it brings America together. Black, white, Republican, Democrat, no matter your sexual orientation, people switch on their TVs and they all say, what the are they wearing? And don't get me wrong, I love the Met Gala. I'm not even trying to act like I hate.
I love the Met Gala because it's not about looking good, it's about looking different, you know? It's the only party you can show up to in a cardboard box with the word butthole written on it, and people will be like, oh my God, yes, I need more of that in my life, oh my God! But if you show up in a beautiful tailored tuxedo, everyone's like, get that corny shit out of here!
Bring back the guy in the butthole box! And remember this entire event, this entire event is a fundraiser. I saw a lot of people talking trash like, oh, what is this bullshit? Why are these people doing? It's a fundraiser that makes it possible to keep admission into the Metropolitan Museum of Art free for residents. And I for one think that's really important. You know?
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Chapter 2: How do black designers impact fashion history?
It's about the fashion, which Stephen Burroughs helped shape. He hung out at Studio 54 and was popular among its celebrity regulars. He was the first to design clothes that were comfortable on the dance floor, even at 3 a.m., right when the cocaine hit so hard you thought you were the disco ball. Cocaine was better in the 70s.
Burroughs also invented lettuceing, which is when you make the material at the edge of a garment curve and ripple, like a piece of lettuce. I'll have to take his word for it, because I've never eaten a piece of lettuce. My favorite vegetable is caramel-covered popcorn. And finally, our last designer brings us to the modern day.
Virgil Abloh, the first African-American artistic director at Louis Vuitton, and driving force behind this decade's streetwear movement. He made high-end fashion take streetwear seriously. You know, fancy logos, T-shirts, chunky sneakers, hoodies, pretty much anything you're not supposed to wear to a funeral. unless you and the deceased had beef. Rest in peace, Spencer.
These Jordans are stepping on your grave. Now, don't be fooled by the term streetwear. One of Abloh's biggest companies, Off-White, sells sweatpants for over $300, and this luxury undershirt costs $200, although I don't know why you would spend so much money on a shirt that ain't nobody gonna see. You know how much I paid for my underwear? Nothing.
A six-pack of drawers fell off the back of a Walmart truck in 1987, and I never looked back. So the next time you zip your fly, and you're looking fly, remember the African-American fashion trailblazers who made you that blazer. Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to make my first shirt retail price $10,000. This old man has his debts. Well, that's all the time we have for today. I'm Roy Wood Jr.
This has been CP Time. And remember, for the culture, make me some... Oh, damn. Somebody give me a napkin. I'm bleeding on my fabric.
Every great movement begins with an individual act of defiance. Moses stood up to the Egyptians. Gandhi stared down the British. Mo Rocca met a man in Syracuse, New York, facing the mightiest foe of them all.
For 17 long months, Fred Craig has crusaded daily against women's discount clothing chain, Fashionbaga. It all started with these. This is what happened to the fashion bug panties Fred bought for his wife after only one wash.
They came apart. They shredded.
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Chapter 3: What is the story behind the one-man fashion protest?
He is a complete idiot for doing this.
What would you prefer Fred do with his time?
Work.
Your son has a website.
Why in the world would he have that?
For other victims of Fashion Bug. The name of the website is www.fashionbugsucks.com.
Well, now, what kind of language is that? Jeez, I'm grown.
To evaluate Fred's claims, the Daily Show Laboratories conducted a battery of tests to simulate a typical day for a pair of panties. Our conclusion? These panties needed to go back to the store. Oh, hi, yeah. I want to return these panties, which I bought, and they're not working.
What happened? Oh, my God. Wow, that's mud.
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Chapter 4: Why did Nordstrom stop selling Ivanka Trump's line?
Let me ask you this, Mo. The time that you spent in the field, can you now tell men what to look for in a good pair of panties? Oh, absolutely, John.
Here is the much celebrated thong. Lovely to look at, but not at all durable. No, no. So now take a look at these, if you would, a pair of the much ballyhooed edible panties. Okay, attractive, yes, but look very closely at the sell-by date. Okay, I'm sure these panties were tasty in March 1978. Well, which panties do you recommend, then?
Oh, well, the oldies but the goodies, big old granny panties.
Well, do you have an example of that to show us, or is there someone? Oh, well, sure, here. Oh, okay, yeah.
No, no, it's very easy. Yes, yes, yes, that's fine, that's fine.
I know, I understand, yes, they're underneath. Very good. Mo Rock, everybody!
Not everything is going swimmingly in Trump land. As you know by now, Nordstrom stopped selling Ivanka's product line, and after Trump attacked them online, this is true, Nordstrom's stock shot up 4%. It went up by 4%. It's the new Trump effect. Yeah, everyone thought stocks were gonna go down.
Right now, every company in the country is gonna start claiming to stop selling Ivanka products, even if they don't have them. That's like the new thing. You go against Trump, and then people will be in court, and they're just like, the lawyer's like, I know my client killed four people, but he stopped selling Ivanka products, so could he have a lighter sentence?
They'll be like, all right, it's approved. It's approved. It's approved. So that was all yesterday. That was all yesterday. Then this morning, Trump sent out the most overworked woman in America and truth scarecrow Kellyanne Conway to defend Ivanka's brand on TV.
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