Yannick un-dresses for the Oscars
OrchestrasA red-carpet shot of the music director of the Metropolitan Opera and Philadelphia Orchestra.
Yannick writes:
An unforgettable night at @TheAcademy Awards, standing tall for @maestrofilm and the classical music community, celebrating seven amazing nominations! Congratulations to all the winners and nominees!
Une soirée inoubliable aux @TheAcademy Awards, rempli de fierté pour @maestrofilm et honoré de représenter la communauté de la musique classique. Célébrons sept merveilleuses nominations! Félicitations à tous les gagnants et nommés!
Stylist: @tiffbrisenostylist
Clothing: @ysl
Jewelry: @jasonofbeverlyhills
Watch: @rolex
Grooming: @patricksantaana
Captions, please?
Total lack of taste.
And what did you wear to the Oscars, pray tell?
Clothes?
C’mon, a BEIGE tuxedo with a BELT(!)? Did you see any other men on the red carpet wear beige? That’s because he wore what the A-listers, B-listers, C-listers, D-listers all rejected and it finally trickled down to him.
John Cena was more well dressed than he was.
just awful and anyhow so overrated
Don’t you think, the necklace is a bit too much?
Has Yannick already won the Guinness Book of World Records prize for Vicarious Embarrassment?
He certainly seems to dig deeper every day…
Was he invited to anything official, or did they sneak in after everything was over, and then found an empty hallway decorated with Oscar logos and then took some selfies? Who’s the photographer, or did they Photoshop themselves onto a stock photo?
Caption:
“Agencies issue kill notice for a crime of fashion; the perpetrators are also victims, fashion victims, and are considered armed and tasteless”
He was there as part of the Maestro contingent. I didn’t think much of the movie, and, as I predicted, Barbie outdid it in terms of wins, but at least most of its representatives turned up looking respectable and, in the case of Carey Mulligan, stunningly elegant.
YN-Z’s partner looks reasonably stylish and event-appropriate. He himself looks as if he thought he would be heading for one of the seamier caffs on the Marseille docks, c. 1949.
Negatively distasteful. Someone needs to tell him that Miami Vice has been out of sight and out of mind for close to half a century.
Miami vice had its own esthetics, and it was working…
Yannick – unfortunately – has gotten more and more tasteless recently. Such a pity.
It’s a disappointing turn for someone who was once regarded as having impeccable taste. Perhaps it’s a temporary lapse, but for now, Yannick’s recent selections leave much to be desired.
LOST TRAINING BRA!
Garment lost or stolen during Oscars.
Generous reward if found!
Dear oh dear. Funny but also a bit tragic.
How utterly awful.
Flamboyant. Emphasis on flam(e)
Maybe something went wrong with the washing machine/drier and the shirt (or whatever it is) srhank?
Wie schön ist der Dirigent YNS heute Nacht!
Clever!
Excellent!
Denken Sie.
Ersetzen Sie das Ausrufezeichen mit einem Fragezeichen!
He is really becoming an embarrassment. His Wokeification of Philly Orchestra has brought it down in stature as evidenced by its programming and beating of dead horses.
I stopped going to their concerts in large part for that reason. But in his and the Orchestra’s defense, I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their improved lineup of guest conductors this season and next and they have one of their more appealing seasons overall in a long time on tap for ’24-’25 – Mahler 3, 6, 9, Tristan (complete), Bruckner 7, Verdi’s Requiem (with Muti), etc.
That aside, the outfit is a joke.
Agreed. That once great orchestra has become an embarrassment. And that is no fault of the musicians.
What a classless buffoon. His predecessors Stokowski, Ormandy, Muti, Sawallisch all dressed immaculately.
…and, conducted with great depth and finesse. But, you know, we live in a very superficial age of social media and attention-getting behaviors, good and bad. Poor old music.
But maybe Stokowski, Ormandy, Muti, and Sawallisch weren’t flamboyantly gay. There is nothing wrong with Yannick’s being himself. The only thing that matters is his conducting.
Please, I’m eating my breakfast.
While he was on the red carpet, his opera house remains in the red….
The Met is obviously a part-time gig for him.
“Where’s me shirt?” Honestly, I am big fan of YNS but here he looks like an absolute putz.
It all screams “I’m a soyboy and I love it”.
Stokowski and Ormandy must be turning in their graves.
Uuuuh Muuuu Guuuud. I go to the Uscars, look like trash can gay fabuuulosooooo! Music what?
Love it!!!
He’s an effective musician/communicator and obviously it’s great to have classical musicians implicated outside of the musical sphere. That said, he looks ridiculous and clearly he doesn’t realize (whether he is this way or not) that it comes across as extremely self-absorbed.
So sleazy and tasteless lately. He is 49…apparently he is going through a midlifecrisis. Addicted to attention. Feels himself to be the next Bernstein (which he is not). Is he trying to make some kind of statement? This polishing of his fingernails is just too much brrrr….
It’s only a matter of time before the cosmetic surgery begins.
Sorry, but it’s already such an American thing to do.
A relative law student once said he’d learned a lot from “LA Law” about the profession and I retorted that I would have thought he’d have learned more about plastic surgery than legal processes!!
You can blame the US for many things, but South Korea, Argentina, Brazil, Columbia and Greece out pace the US for per capital cosmetic surgery procedures.
Look closer.
Next time my gay friends criticize my outfit, I will remind them that you can be gay AND have bad taste
I’m rooting for Yannick! He is a fine musician who works very hard, gives a lot, and (evidently) plays hard. Glad to see he’s having fun. He’s earned it!
“He is a fine musician…”
I agree. I’ve been going to concerts, mostly in London, for over 50 years. Yannick’s Mahler 5 with the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall recently was right up there with VPO/Bernstein and LPO/Tennstedt.
I LOVE IT! You do you Yannick. These pearl clutchers have no imagination. ❤️
And that’s why we have to be SHOWN.
He should have put on a gold chain and told people he was auditioning for the remake of Saturday Night Fever.
At least Tony Manero wore a shirt.
Has Yannick ever given preferred pronouns? Just want to be correct.
Will that get him mere photo opps or $$????
Gag.
Could a sex change be next? Or at least a boob job.
Barbie pink is less tacky.
“…standing tall for @maestrofilm and the classical music community…” is not accomplished when you appear too plastic to be mistaken as the Music Director for BARBIE.
Don’t make me laugh, I have chapped lips !
His partner looks a lot like him. I encountered this occasionally when studying in London and subbing for a colleague playing cocktail piano (‘live music’ was the cheapest way in those days for restaurant/bar owners to get around licensing laws and continue serving alcohol for another ninety minutes). One of these venues was a gay bar in St. Martin’s Lane, Brief Encounter. The clientele was very friendly and one couple stuck out in my mind: looking as similar as Yannick and his other half, they asked me to play ‘Happy Birthday’, so I duly obliged. ‘It’s our birthday!’ one of them declared, as they hugged. They actually had the same birthday, all the while looking like semi-unidentical twins.
Having said that, his outfit really is embarrassing. Or is the MD of the Met and the Philly required in these ‘progressive’ days, to dress like a public lavatory gigolo?
Look at all the pearl clutching….
Have any of you Neanderthals ever thought that he might just be enjoying how easily he lives in your head??
Slay, Yannick. Slay!!
Dresses?
Can you have a personal very bad taste and be a musician with good taste?…
Who’s the gorgeous dude in the elegant black suit?
Too young for you, Sue!
Channeling his inner Yuja?
I’ll respect one’s own fashion sense, but geez, it’s a ridiculous looking garment clearly intended to hide his abs and stomach. It would have looked so much better – even elegant – if he had tossed that awful thing and simply buttoned the jacket above his waist. Just saying…
Wow. I have seen so many pictures of the Oscars but this is the only media to feature this.
Probably nobody else is interested in it.
Because in the world of the Oscars and movieland, Yannick is not important.
He’s young, talented, good-looking, successful and deserves to enjoy his moment. I can’t think of a better occasion for a little bit of extravagance than the Oscars. While I personally wouldn’t wear it (and definitely couldn’t, that I am confident about), I think he can pull it off. Why not? It’s not hurting anybody. I think part of the reactions are due to the cognitive dissonance between what we expect a conductor should look like and behave vs. the possibility that one can both be sexy and understand composers such as Bruckner or Mahler. Good for him.
These are the accoutrements of a man in the grip of a mid-life crisis. His poor partner.
Nice pecs, though. I’ll admit to that.
Honestly, they are more man-boobs than pecs. Nice spin though…
A David del Tredici lite appearance. David would have worn leather with a cape and brought his partner in on a leash.
I look forward to seeing YNS to dress like Yuja on her wild days.
😉
(I just want to see that day to come someday; I don’t want to see that in person)
Zero judgment and expected poor taste from the guy who is on record as asserting that Florence Price should, as a composer, have been acknowledged as being as great as Beethoven.