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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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