The inaugural Debt Gala—a benefit for the charity R.I.P. Medical Debt, which buys people’s medical debt in order to cancel it—took place a mere 30 hours before the better-known Met Gala.
Among the meticulously styled celebrities at last week’s Met Gala, the annual fifty-thousand-dollar-per-plate museum fund-raiser, no one turned heads quite like a crasher sent by Mother Nature: a water bug that scampered across the red carpet, seizing paparazzi’s attention before meeting a sole-crushing demise. Thirty hours earlier, Molly Gaebe, a comedian and actor, wrestled with some ceremonial variables of her own.
She founded the event with Amanda Corday and Tom Costello, two industry friends. Around the time of last year’s Met Gala, they were at a bar discussing their shared appreciation for its over-the-top pageantry, and floated the notion of a version that was more accessible and benefitted the public good. First came the name: the Debt Gala—“Gotta have a good pun,” Gaebe said—then the cause. The producer Adam Gold joined to book performers.
The hosts changed into their gala looks. For Gaebe: a miniskirt made of old head shots. Corday’s skirt was recycled from century-old girdles; perched on her head was a bird-shaped fascinator made from magazines. Trailing behind Costello was a train constructed of wooden toy-train tracks, which he had scored off Facebook Marketplace the night before, from a wistful mother on 110th Street. “She was, like, ‘Do you have a kid that loves trains?’ ” he said.
Common threads emerged: thrift buys, local upcyclers, leftovers from costume parties. “No one cares, but my suit used to belong to an astronaut,” the comedian Michael Bevan, who served as a red-carpet correspondent, announced. Meredith Metcalf, who works in TV and film production, had crafted epaulets from tissue boxes and Mardi Gras beads, to accent a tutu-like dress from the set of the drag drama “Pose.
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