Some stars say the Vanity Fair Oscar partycast them in a bad light — literally.
Following the high-profile post-Academy Awards soirée at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Sunday, A-list attendees were allegedly complaining of the “crazy-bright” lighting and “unforgiving” pics.
“I felt like I was standing under klieg lights,” one guest told the Hollywood Reporter following the ultra-exclusive fête that VF retooled with a slashed guest list, less outside press and a new venue.
Another attendee joked that she felt like she was hitting early menopause under the glaring lights.
“It was like a hundred degrees,” the anonymous guest told THR. “I was literally having hot flashes.”
The Hollywood trade pointed out that the annual affair was previously known for its “sublime” red carpet lighting when the party was traditionally in Beverly Hills at the Wallis Annenberg Center.
A person described by THR as “a longtime party fixture” noted that the “meticulously calibrated” and flattering lighting was previously “the secret of the Oscar party’s success.”
“I’ve been shot at a million parties, but the setup for that party was always sublime,” they told the outlet. “When you posed for the paps at the VF gala, even the ugliest stars knew they’d come out all right. It was like magic!”
But an insider noted that the lighting this year was, “Like being shot in extremely high-def.”
“You saw a lot of excess pounds and wrinkles that used to be hidden,” they shared. “Nobody wants to be photographed like that!”
A light gray carpet — which was new for Sunday’s event — seemingly made matters worse.
“I genuinely feel bad for some of these women,” another guest complained. “One poor actress looked like a Diane Arbus character. She was on her phone looking at her pictures and shrieking at her publicist. I heard that she went home and cried herself to sleep. Nobody has heard from her since!”
The photos made their way to social media where TikTok trolls mercilessly mocked some poor celebs.
THR further claimed that the morning after Hollywood’s biggest night, some stars opted to share photos taken during Guy Oseary and Madonna’s star-studded partyinstead of the Vanity Fair shots.
One source said the VF move to LACMA had a glitch: A plan to show off the museum’s new David Geffen galleries fell flat when it wasn’t ready in time, and the party was in a different, less grand wing.
“Look, it had its problems, but it’s also their first time at this locale,” a guest told the outlet on Monday before quipping, “I’ll still go next year if I’m invited, but hopefully they won’t hire the lighting designer who did the 405.”
While the event’s frontman, Vanity Fair editor Mark Guiducci, seemingly experienced some stress over the lighting mishap, a Vanity Fair insider said it worked out in the end.
“For the first hour, everyone was worried that Mark was having a nervous breakdown,” they claimed, noting that his mood “visibly brightened” later on in the evening, when he was spotted ditching his green velvet tuxedo jacket to snuggle up to his boyfriend at the bar.
Page Six has reached out to a rep for Vanity Fair’s publisher, Condé Nast.
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