Rihanna's Met Gala dress took one Chinese woman 2 years to make, was reduced to omelette meme in 2 seconds

Ouch.

Christopher Hooton
Wednesday 06 May 2015 17:19 BST
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When Rihanna's Met Gala gown was widely ridiculed in a variety of omelette, scrambled egg and pizza-based memes yesterday my first thought was 'Wow, that dress really does look like an omelette/scrambled eggs/pizza'.

My second thought was 'Nawww, but someone probably worked really hard on that.'

My third thought was 'F**k it, it's just a dress at a silly socialite event, this shouldn't be occupying three of my thoughts.'

My persistent fourth was 'No but really, I bet a designer is weeping somewhere right now.'

Indeed it turns out the voluminous dress was the result of years of work, assembled pain-stakingly by 45-year-old Beijing-based designer Guo Pei.

Tweets reducing it to an egg-based snack are now in the hundreds of thousands.

You cruel, internet.

@christophhooton

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