With tables costing $200,000 to $300,000, last year’s event in September raised $16.4m for the Costume Institute. After two years of interruption – one cancelled by Covid-19 another under-attended due to international travel bans and vaccine requirements – Monday’s gala was reported to have returned to full strength. The influential trade publication the Business of Fashion said this year’s event might be the “most important Met Gala” of Wintour’s career. The Met Gala is a commercial proposition, light years away from its creation, in 1946, by the publicist Eleanor Lambert, who is credited with bringing European fashion to America. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Blake Lively came as the Statue of Liberty.Īmy Schumer. Amy Schumer said “when Gabriella Hearst offers to dress you put your Spanx on right over your c-section scar.” Janelle Monáe promoted her sc-fi book. Riz Ahmed, in a T-shirt and worker’s shirt, said he was “trying elevate and celebrate working-class immigrants”. Paak in “Gucci from head to toe” and Ashton Sanders offering up “Blade, vampire tip”. Hamish Bowles, the World of Interiors editor, sporting a raffish matinee idol moustache and gold tiara, said: “Tonight our hearts are with the people of Ukraine and the victims of war and displacement around the world.” The publisher, the major sponsor of the event, had made a donation to the Red Cross and encouraged “those who can to do so as well”.ĭame Anna Wintour’s “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”-themed ball kicked off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Priscilla Presley on hand to pitch Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis movie, Anderson. Politics at the event returned again when Kim Kardashian appeared on the red carpet in the iconic dress Marilyn Monroe wore to coo Happy Birthday to President Kennedy in 1962. But the celebration of women’s progress toward equal rights came as news surfaced that the US supreme court had provisionally voted to overturn Roe v Wade, the landmark ruling that legalised abortion nationwide in America, according to a draft opinion reported on by Politico.
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