For fashion's biggest night, Page, 34, donned a black Balenciaga suit paired with a pair of black sneakers—and a green flower pinned to his lapel.
For fashion's biggest night, Page, 34, donned a black Balenciaga suit paired with a pair of black sneakers.star accessorized with a green rose pinned to his lapel, which many are speculating is intended to be a nod to the green carnation symbol that's associated with Oscar Wilde.
Elliot Page arrives for the 2021 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York.The green carnation became a queer symbol in 1892 and has continued to be a token for queer men ever since. "The green carnation became a queer symbol in 1892 when Oscar Wilde instructed a handful of his friends to wear them on their lapels to the opening night of his comedy," Sarah Prager writes in an essay on certain flowering plants and their queer symbolism, per JStor.
"From then on, wearing a green carnation on your lapel was a secret, subtle hint that you were a man who loved other men." According to Oscar Wilde Tours, who use the flower as their symbol, with the green carnation,"Wilde was playing with one of his favorite ideas: that nature should imitate art, and not the reverse. In that sense, then, the green carnation was symbolic. A flower of an unnatural color embodied the decadent and the unnatural."
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