What a drag: Rihanna and her big yellow dress

Singer Rihanna is helped up the stairs by three train handlers as she arrives for Met Gala 2015. Photo: EPA

But Then Again columnist MARY SCHNEIDER questions the extravagance displayed at Met Gala 2015 and why such events are not used to serve a more noble cause.

Rihanna arrived at last week’s Met Gala 2015 in New York looking, in my opinion, as if a giant omelette had somehow attached itself to her body. Although many news reports concurred with my assessment, others stated that she was actually wearing an enormous yellow, fur-trimmed cape. Yet others thought she was channelling Sesame Street’s Big Bird.