Met Gala's 'decadence and tone-deaf extravagance' obliterated in scathing column

The glitzy and frightfully expensive Met Gala scheduled for the first Monday of May every year was on the receiving end of a thrashing hours before it kicked off with one critic labeling it as a "vainglorious display of self-congratulatory decadence" despite its charity trappings.

In a harsh column for the Daily Beast, critic Kali Hollway lambasted not only the self-promoting attendees but a press crop that flocks to cover an event emblematic of "late-stage capitalism run amok."

As Holloway pointed out...