The theme of last night?s annual Met Gala was ?Manus x Machina,? an exploration of fashion in the age of technology. Of all the many striking style choices made, there?s one that has Twitter firmly divided: Kanye West?s colored contacts. Both West and his wife Kim Kardashian attended the gala in glittering, highly-reflective Balmain ensembles that Kanye topped off with a pair of contacts that turned his normally brown eyes an icy shade of Whitewalker blue. This time around, the effect, one imagines, was to evoke the idea of a cyborg or android?a humanoid whose body was mechanically enhanced or synthetic, some fans were huge fans. While others particularly people familiar with black history and the community?s relationship to white beauty standards?read West?s contacts as a reification of an old, problematic ideal.
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