Further proof that fashion is just a fancy name for cosplay: In honor of this year’s Met Gala theme, “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,†person at the intersection of man and machine Zayn Malik showed up in a pair of robotic arms. On Twitter, we laughed, jeered, and made jokes about how he looked like a video-game character. Guess what? We plebeians were right! “I was asked to design my own costume by Donatella Versace,†Zayn told Dazed about the reaction to the outfit. “I had seen a few people hitting me online, saying negative things about it. But I enjoyed it because they were saying I looked like a dude from Mortal Kombat, and it was actually based on a character [from the video-game series] called Jax. He had metal arms, and the theme was technology, so I just took it from him … It’s a bit easy to just dress up in a suit. I like to do things that are a bit outside of that.â€
Megan Fox recently said that she would like to play Kitana in a Mortal Kombat movie. Do we smell a reboot? Oh, wait, that’s just a rotting severed head. Get it out of here!