The Costume Institute’s Met Gala may not have always been a supersized spectacle, but it was always very fashionable. Started in 1948 by Eleanor Lambert, who also founded the International Best Dressed List, the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and even New York Fashion Week, at the start the evening consisted of a very … Read more
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The evanescent burst of cherry blossoms, the rainbow of tulips coloring the sidewalks, the mellifluous hyacinths perfuming the air—spring is in the air, and we’re not just talking about the fauna and flora in the natural word. Another flowering taking place is the 2024 Met Gala, held annually on the first Friday in May. This … Read more
Also on the show, to commemorate of Earth Day, Margaux Anbouba, Emily Chan, and Lilah Ramzi talk about all things vintage and the release of Vogue’s sprawling new Vintage Guide. Our resident vintage experts started off with a ’fit check, and unsurprisingly they were all wearing vintage or upcycled clothing. In their wide-ranging conversation, the … Read more
The 2024 Met Gala on Monday, May 6 is rapidly approaching. For the fourth year in a row, Vogue will host the night’s exclusive livestream, where you can watch all of the action from the red carpet in real time. This year, the Vogue Met Gala livestream will be hosted by actor Gwendoline Christie, producer … Read more
At my first Met Gala after-party, I drank whatever a waiter handed me—and a lot of it. When my alarm went off the next morning, I woke up with a raging hangover and a Gordian knot of anxiety thanks to the 100 unread emails in my inbox. In New York City, you can divide people … Read more
2009 Photo: Penske Media via Getty Images Repeat Attenders: Models’ memorable Met Gala moments. Lila and Kate Moss, 2022. Photo: Gotham / Getty Images 1995 Photo: Ron Galella / Getty Images Repeat Attenders: Models’ memorable Met Gala moments. Fashion’s favorite spectator sport is the Met Gala. The guests are the “players” whose “stats” are times … Read more
Few beauty moments command as much attention as a new nail look from Jennifer Lopez. From luxe neutrals to glossy nudes to shimmering tips, Lopez’s polish jobs meld timelessness and trend, creating the sort of enduring aesthetics destined to go viral. For an evening spent on the red carpet (or the Met steps) that approach … Read more
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As a eight-time attendee of the Met Gala, it’s safe to say that Gigi Hadid knows her way around the event’s red carpet by now. Since attending her first Met in 2015, the supermodel has pulled off a variety of drastically-different themes along the way—from campy to futuristic. So, ahead of this year’s grand soirée, … Read more
Every year, event planner Raul Ávila is given a daunting task: to transform the Metropolitan Museum of Art into an otherworldly spectacle for the annual Met Gala. For 2019’s “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” he created a 25-foot tall, flamboyant flamingo centerpiece comprised of 30,000 flowers. In 2018, he erected a rose recreation of a papal … Read more
That “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”—the upcoming exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute with its accompanying Met Gala—veers closer to a forensic than a fantastical reading of clothing is confirmed by a first look at the handsomely boxed exhibition catalog in which science and style sit side-by-side. On its box cover, after all, … Read more
