Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
Cardi B walked the 2021 American Music Awards red carpet in an identity-obfuscating gold mask.
Bella Hadid wore aSchiaparelli lung dressto Cannes earlier this year.
Cardis mask is also part of a larger tradition of celebrities doing borderline performance art by disguising their identities.
Its an interesting choice to make.
The main criterion of being a celebrity is that people recognize you.
Its … kind of the whole thing.
To disguise oneself and assert that one is still famous is to question the notion of fame itself.
Celebs got used to going unrecognized wearing face masks outside.
Why give that up again, even on the red carpet?
Kim Kardashian re-wrote the fashion rule book at Met Gala 2021.
Unless it wasnt really her, a rumor that began swirling almost immediately.
Very on theme, coming to a retrospective of American fashion dressed as a redacted FBI file.
Meanwhile, her ex has been walking around various citiesdressed like Karl Havoc.
Were gonna skip Shia LaBeoufs baghead moment, because this is aNo BummersBlog Post.
Instead, lets think about the time Regis Philbin showed up toLate Night With David Lettermanin full Shrek drag.
For no discernible reason.
you might hear Philbin mutter Biggest mistake I ever made, to himself as he approaches the couch.
Guess who I am!
Philbin may have been promoting theLive!
Either way, it crushed.
The crochet shirt he wore would be a look today.
Somebody callWatching New York.
