Kim Kardashian and Kanye West flew the friendly skies, headed for New York last night on the red eye, in advance of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala on Monday.

This year's theme for the annual event is "Chinese Whispers: Tales of the East in Art, Film and Fashion," and a Jezebel article speculated the "2015 Met Gala Will Probably Be an Asian-Themed Shitshow." Well, that's one way to put it ...

Question is -- can celebs dress appropriately, to honor the theme and the Chinese culture, without being completely culturally insensitive and politically incorrect?

Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton explained to Women's Wear Daily:

    "The basic idea is the influence of Chinese aesthetics on designers, but I also wanted to convey how costumes and decorative arts crystallize centuries of cultural interchanges between the East and the West. They speak to an ongoing fascination of enigmatic objects and motifs. They are infused with fantasy and nostalgia and romance, and what often is created is a virtual China, a mixing of these anachronistic styles, which results in this pastiche. What is interesting is how complicit China has been in forming those fantasies."


We fear lots of kitschy kimonos and geisha-influenced makeup. Wonder what Kim will wear? And Kanye, for that matter!