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A History of the Met Gala: Everything You Didn’t Know

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Only Women’s Wear Daily covered the event until 1958. To drum up excitement around the first-ever Party of the Year, in October 1948, WWD published an article titled “Benefit Party for Costume Institute Set: Affair Nov. 18 to Mark First Gala Get-Together of Fashion Industry—25 Branches Represented.” The cost to attend the shindig? $50. “For … Read more

A Look Back at Stunning Met Gala Interiors Over the Years

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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