Another pair of eyes: how makeup artist Mimi Choi created Ezra Miller’s Met Gala look
Choi’s hyper-real eyes on the actor’s face took her five hours to complete – and perfectly captured the ‘camp’ brief of the gala
Some celebrities might have struggled to interpret the “camp” theme of this year’s Met Gala, but one was singled out for – to quote one approving tweet – having not only understood the assignment, but turned it in early for extra credit.
The actor Ezra Miller stood out among the black-tie and tulle for accessorising his Burberry suit and jewelled corset with five extra eyes: the painstaking, pre-dawn work of makeup artist Mimi Choi. “We were both kind of not awake,” she says from her home in Vancouver. “But it worked out in the end.”