{"id":13552,"date":"2013-05-09T10:15:59","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T09:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=13552"},"modified":"2013-05-09T23:45:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T22:45:54","slug":"express-toyah-willcox-slams-punk-themed-met-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/express-toyah-willcox-slams-punk-themed-met-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Express: Toyah Willcox Slams Punk-Themed Met Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/showbiz\/398216\/Toyah-Willcox-slams-punk-themed-Met-Ball\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/showbiz\/398216\/Toyah-Willcox-slams-punk-themed-Met-Ball\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13555\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" title=\"express13d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/express13d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a>British singer Toyah Willcox has taken aim at the Hollywood stars who donned punk-inspired outfits for this year&#8217;s (13) Costume Institute Gala in New York on Monday (06 May 13), calling their faux rocker outfits &#8220;too manufactured&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus and Sienna Miller were among the glamorous A-listers who tackled the evening&#8217;s punk theme in studded garments and dramatic make-up at fashion&#8217;s biggest night, also known as the Met Ball.<\/p>\n<p>But Willcox, who found fame just as the punk movement took off in the 1970s, is adamant their designer gowns missed the mark since punk style was all about do-it-yourself creations made with little to no money.<\/p>\n<p>In a column for Britain&#8217;s The Sun, she writes, &#8220;As the Met Ball celebrated and adorned itself with super-rich guests dressed in mandatory punk theme, A-listers arrived in their saccharin designer versions of punk chic. The A-listers at the ball&#8230; were all too manufactured. But here in the U.K. the punk movement has a far more working class power &#8211; a power for me that could never be mimicked by designer labels&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/showbiz\/398216\/Toyah-Willcox-slams-punk-themed-Met-Ball\" target=\"_blank\">The\u00a0Express<\/a><\/strong>. Also at\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.contactmusic.com\/news\/toyah-willcox-slams-punk-themed-met-ball_3653096\" target=\"_blank\">Contact Music<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.new-magazine.co.uk\/latestnews\/view\/51271\/Toyah-Willcox-slams-punk-themed-Met-Ball\/\" target=\"_blank\">New!<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.orange.co.uk\/article\/news\/toyah_willcox_blasts_punk_themed_met_ball\" target=\"_blank\">Orange News<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ok.co.uk\/celebrity-news\/view\/62761\/Toyah-Willcox-slams-punk-themed-Met-Ball\/\" target=\"_blank\">OK!<\/a><\/strong>, among others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British singer Toyah Willcox has taken aim at the Hollywood stars who donned punk-inspired outfits for this year&#8217;s (13) Costume Institute Gala in New York on Monday (06 May 13), calling their faux rocker outfits &#8220;too manufactured&#8221;. Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus and Sienna Miller were among the glamorous A-listers who tackled the evening&#8217;s punk theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[557,766,767,679,556],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13552"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13558,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13552\/revisions\/13558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}