--- title: Met Gala 2015: Sarah Jessica Parker's Philip Treacy Headpiece Gets Meme'd description: Twitterati reacted to the headpiece as if it were a Rorschach inkblot test canonical: https://time.com/3846428/met-gala-2015-sarah-jessica-parker/ author: Dan Kedmey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-05T01:27:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:39.554Z og:title: Met Gala 2015: Sarah Jessica Parker's Philip Treacy Headpiece Gets Meme'd og:description: Twitterati reacted to the headpiece as if it were a Rorschach inkblot test og:url: https://time.com/3846428/met-gala-2015-sarah-jessica-parker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a87d27088c7ac70/6987ee4f2dce011a209e1a95/met-gala-tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1701 og:image:height: 957 og:image:alt: met-gala-tout og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Met Gala 2015: Sarah Jessica Parker's Philip Treacy Headpiece Gets Meme'd twitter:description: Twitterati reacted to the headpiece as if it were a Rorschach inkblot test twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1a87d27088c7ac70/6987ee4f2dce011a209e1a95/met-gala-tout.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Twitter Has Some Fun With Sarah Jessica Parker's Met Gala Headdress > Sponsored content. 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Larry Busacca—Getty Images  by [Dan Kedmey](https://time.com/author/dan-kedmey/)  ## Dan Kedmey May 5, 2015 1:27 AM UTC Actress Sarah Jessica Parker basically put an internet meme on her head when she showed up to the Met Gala in a massive flaming red headpiece. Twitterati reacted to the Philip Treacy Custom headpiece as if it were a Rorschach inkblot test, alternately seeing the villain from Power Rangers or the villain from Maleficent or the villain from the Year Without a Santa Claus — actually, they saw a lot of villains: > [](https://twitter.com/%5FAfricanHippie/status/595367946043535360) > [](https://twitter.com/Oooops%5F%5F%5F%5F/status/595385337888841728) > [](https://twitter.com/SartoriallyInc/status/595365395328012288) > [](https://twitter.com/jiandeleon/status/595362428696797185) > [](https://twitter.com/MissAbbyMcLain/status/595364346747703296) It’s not clear that was the desired result by the _Sex and the City_ star – but at least she made an impression, right? ### See Celebrities on the Red Carpet at the 2015 Met Gala  Amal Clooney and George Clooney attend the "China: Through The Looking Glass" Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York. 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