Krista s Blue and White Dress on Night Shift
May 2, 2022, 10:08 p.m. ET
All right, that's a wrap on our live blog. Thank you for joining us in the celebrity frenzy of fashion ostensibly in service of the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute. The New York Times Met Gala Live Blog Headquarters will resume next year on the first Monday in May — unless, of course they decide to throw an extra one on the calendar like they did last year. Hey, anything's possible!
May 2, 2022, 9:41 p.m. ET
There were so many great looks we didn't get to talk about. What were some of your faves?
May 2, 2022, 9:41 p.m. ET
I thought Hailey Bieber looked very elegant in white feathered Saint Laurent. And I think Kendall Jenner might win the battle of the skirts. I also appreciated Lenny Kravitz sharing the corset pain.
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May 2, 2022, 9:42 p.m. ET
Elvira Lind and Oscar Isaac gender flipping. She wore a suit and bowtie, and he wore a skirt!
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May 2, 2022, 9:43 p.m. ET
Gwen Stefani's neon-green gown by Vera Wang deserves a shoutout. The Hollaback Girl delivered.
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May 2, 2022, 9:43 p.m. ET
Not sure how Irina Shayk's head-to-toe Burberry outfit is on theme, but I really appreciate the effort here. It's giving biker chic.
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May 2, 2022, 9:47 p.m. ET
I loved Paloma Elsesser's structured yet ethereal ivory look and her full-neck pearl choker.
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May 2, 2022, 9:55 p.m. ET
I loved Lena Waithe's blue Elvis-era jacket. And David Lauren's party on top, cowboy on the bottom. Plus, Precious Lee looked great.
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May 2, 2022, 10:12 p.m. ET
Oh no, I'm still clicking through out slideshow — plug! — but I loved Chloe Bailey's structural sparkly gold dress by Area. (I appreciated that it was a different shade of gold, compared with all the other gold dresses -- like yellow, sickly gold.) I also really liked Yahya Abdul-Mateen II's embellished Thom Browne jacket and Kerby Jean-Raymond's funky green velvet shoes. And my best-dressed couple may go to Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy.
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May 2, 2022, 9:36 p.m. ET
Sad girls, rejoice: Phoebe Bridgers has arrived, and a mustachioed Paul Mescal is by her side.
May 2, 2022, 9:23 p.m. ET
Kim Kardashian's look is a version of the nude dress Marilyn Monroe famously wore to serenade President John F. Kennedy during his birthday celebrations; it was so tight, Monroe had to be sewn into the gown. Kim has also dyed her hair Monroe platinum.
May 2, 2022, 9:19 p.m. ET
Update: Lizzo is blessing the red carpet with some flute-playing.
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May 2, 2022, 9:19 p.m. ET
Turns out that golden flute wasn't just an accessory after all.
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May 2, 2022, 9:12 p.m. ET
Bad Bunny looks like he's sitting on someone's shoulders underneath that long Burberry skirt.
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May 2, 2022, 9:11 p.m. ET
Kim and Pete are here!
May 2, 2022, 9:15 p.m. ET
Kim and Pete are everywhere.
May 2, 2022, 9:10 p.m. ET
As someone who often wears baseball caps, I will refrain from commenting on Kylie Jenner's and Nicki Minaj's chosen hairpieces tonight.
May 2, 2022, 9:04 p.m. ET
Jodie Turner-Smith's finger waves are so regal. The look reminds me of the hairstyle I wore to homecoming my senior year. I feel "seen."
May 2, 2022, 9:01 p.m. ET
Dwyane Wade pulling a Chalamet and going shirtless under his white Versace suit.
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May 2, 2022, 8:59 p.m. ET
Jessica Chastain is giving Sunset Boulevard meets Zoltar in full-body red sequins.
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May 2, 2022, 8:59 p.m. ET
Future has arrived in shorts and a bedazzled face covering. Mask on.
May 2, 2022, 8:51 p.m. ET
Kylie Jenner is mixing athleisure and matrimony in her red carpet ensemble.
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May 2, 2022, 8:52 p.m. ET
Athleisuremony.
May 2, 2022, 8:59 p.m. ET
It's the wedding dress from Virgil Abloh's posthumous Off-White show.
May 2, 2022, 8:50 p.m. ET
That Cardi B Versace dress, by the way, is made from almost a kilometer of chains and jewelry. I can't imagine how much it weighs.
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May 2, 2022, 8:50 p.m. ET
How can there possibly be so many celebrities... It feels like they will never stop coming.
May 2, 2022, 8:49 p.m. ET
It's hard to say who wins the gold medal for gilt; there is so much of it. But I'm leaning toward Cardi B in Versace.
May 2, 2022, 8:48 p.m. ET
Travis Barker and Kourtney Kardashian are in matching Thom Browne skirts.
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May 2, 2022, 8:47 p.m. ET
Dove Cameron debuts an Iris van Herpen creation all her own.
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Even before she was invited to this year's Met Gala, Dove Cameron dreamed of wearing one of the Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen's ethereal designs.
The actress, known for her roles in the Apple TV+ comedy "Schmigadoon!" and Disney's "Descendants" franchise, had a visceral reaction to Grimes's Iris van Herpen look for last year's Met Gala. In an interview on Friday, she recalled sending an image of it to her publicist saying: "How does Iris create like this? It's so otherworldly. It's so alien."
Now, Ms. Cameron, 26, is thrilled to be wearing a custom Iris van Herpen gown for her very first Met Gala appearance. "At this moment in time for me, with my music and with this rebirth I've been having, Iris, as a creative, and I are very matched," she said.
In recent years, Ms. Cameron has come out as queer, dyed her hair brunette and shifted her career to focus more on her music — all of which are inflection points, she said, symbolized by this dress.
"I've been able to live my life a little more out loud," she said. "I've shed some of my fear, and I've kind of created my own little world for myself as a human and as an artist."
"This dress represents that," she added. "It's not hiding anything, it's very bold, it's very transformative."
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The dress, which Ms. van Herpen said took her team more than 600 hours to bring to life, is called the "Spiral Nebula" gown and is constructed of recycled mylar. It's sculptural yet flowy, with lines that branch out from Ms. Cameron's arms and legs. It also shows a lot of skin, which Ms. Cameron is drawn to.
"Just as much as there is of dress, you are also seeing of me," she said. "It's a lot of body."
During the design process, Ms. van Herpen showed Ms. Cameron several different sketches for her potential look, and this one immediately stood out, Ms. Cameron said. "It plays into the theme of 'Gilded Age' in the way that it's incredibly structured, all about shape, but it's also honoring Iris's unique vision," she said.
May 2, 2022, 8:44 p.m. ET
Conan Gray looks like disco royalty.
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May 2, 2022, 8:42 p.m. ET
We have a proposal update! According to NBC New York, it was New York City's commissioner of cultural affairs, Laurie Cumbo, who became engaged on the Met Gala's red carpet earlier. The proposal was captured live on camera and the bride-to-be looked shocked and emotional as she said yes to her partner, who surprised her and the crowd by popping the question while down on one knee on the Met's steps.
May 2, 2022, 8:42 p.m. ET
Dressing for the Met
Christine Baranski Is an Expert in 'Gilded Glamour'
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When Christine Baranski's character on "The Gilded Age" looks out her window at the mansion across the street, she sees the equivalent of a Trump casino.
"She's absolutely appalled by what money is going to do to her world," Ms. Baranski said. "It was just wretched excess. But it was a glorious time that celebrated the new American aristocracy."
Attending the Met Gala for the first time in her 50-year career, Ms. Baranski expected to see some parallels between that "age of rampant capitalism" and now — but from a slight distance.
"I'm wearing big Thom Browne sunglasses so I can ogle people without them knowing I'm looking at them," the actress said, laughing. (She has a notably excellent laugh.)
Ms. Baranski also wore a full Thom Browne look: a floor-length tailored cape with a floor-length skirt, both covered in matte black sequins, which were made in Switzerland especially for Ms. Baranski. Beneath the cape, she wore a white bow tie and corset tied over a white shirt with a wingtip collar.
When she heard the gala's theme was "gilded glamour," Ms. Baranski's initial fear was, "Am I going to have to drag some gigantic train up the stairs?" she said. "Most of the ladies who will show up might not ever have worn a corset, or heavy velvet, or brocade, or beading. I've spent 15-hour days in costumes like that," including the week before the gala when shooting began on the second season of "The Gilded Age."
"But when I saw Thom's sketch, I said, 'Oh, that's so elegant and stately and sleek, but it's modern, and I don't have to drag anything around,'" she said.
Ms. Baranski also enjoyed feeling "more like a gentleman in the Gilded Age than a lady," she said. "I always preferred men's tailoring in fashion to women's." She likes to shop in London at Turnbull & Asser — "oh God, those shirts!" — and said the happiest she has ever been in black tie was at the Emmy Awards in 2010 when, instead of a gown, she wore a vintage Yves Saint Laurent jacket and Ralph Lauren satin trousers.
Yet there is still a "Cinderella feeling" about the whole affair — "a magic about it," she said — in part because Monday is also her 70th birthday.
"You know, most people freak out about entering a decade, and I'm like, 'OK, bring it on,'" she said. "I've never been busier." (The day after the Met gala, she will shoot "The Good Fight" for two days, then travel to Newport, R.I., to shoot "The Gilded Age.")
"I think I'll celebrate it over the course of many days or many weeks or maybe just for a whole decade, who knows."
May 2, 2022, 8:38 p.m. ET
Gigi Hadid is wearing the sleeping bag coat of my dreams.
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May 2, 2022, 8:34 p.m. ET
The designer Victor Glemaud is wearing an opera coat and suit made by H&M's in-house design team, inspired by both the late André Leon Talley and the couturier Charles James.
May 2, 2022, 8:32 p.m. ET
Jared Leto (the real one, at right) and Gucci's Alessandro Michele are dressed as identical twins.
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May 2, 2022, 8:28 p.m. ET
Lizzo has arrived decked out in a black and gold ensemble by Thom Browne, with her trusty flute in hand and corkscrews dangling from the tips of her nails.
May 2, 2022, 8:18 p.m. ET
Eric Adams makes a statement on the red carpet.
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Mayor Eric Adams of New York City arrived at his first Met Gala wearing a tuxedo jacket with the words "End Gun Violence" written across the back, along with a drawing of a handgun encircled in a "no" symbol.
The look, designed by Laolu Senbanjo, a Nigerian visual artist and performer who is known for his black-and-white illustrations of faces, appeared to honor some of New York City's landmarks, including the Chrysler and Empire State buildings and the Brooklyn Bridge. There was also at least one reference to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority: the yellow icon of the N train, on his collar.
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Last month, that subway line was the site of a mass shooting in Brooklyn that left at least 23 people injured and set off a manhunt that lasted more than 24 hours.
In a statement after the shooting, Mayor Adams said that the incident turned a Brooklyn subway into a "war zone," and that he would keep focusing on reducing violent crime in New York.
May 2, 2022, 8:16 p.m. ET
And come to think of it, we haven't spent enough time on Joe Jonas.
May 2, 2022, 8:16 p.m. ET
Thank you, Stella. My thoughts exactly.
May 2, 2022, 8:18 p.m. ET
His hair deserves a Lin-Manuel Miranda musical devoted to it.
May 2, 2022, 8:15 p.m. ET
Should we talk about all the Valentino Pink?
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May 2, 2022, 8:19 p.m. ET
Given how similar it makes everyone who wears it look, I find it fascinating how popular it has been among celebs.
May 2, 2022, 8:15 p.m. ET
Busy week for Megan Thee Stallion! She got a namesake day dedicated to her in Houston and now she's walking the red carpet in Moschino.
May 2, 2022, 8:14 p.m. ET
Dressing for the Met
Megan Thee Stallion Is a Gilded 'Hot Girl'
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"I love gold," Megan Thee Stallion said on Saturday night, sitting in a makeup chair somewhere in Memphis, getting ready for a festival performance — a good thing, too, considering that 48 hours later, in New York, the rapper would attend her second Met Gala drenched in the stuff.
When she arrived at the Met on Monday, gold slid down her body in sequins and beads. It clung to her curves except where revealing cutouts swooped along her ribs, waist and thighs. Strapless with a train, the gown was designed by Jeremy Scott, the creative director of Moschino.
Weeks ago, when Megan Thee Stallion first spoke to Mr. Scott about her desired look, she told him: "I want skin and I want gold and I just want it to be sexy. The one thing I really, really, really, really want is my moment on the stairs."
That moment has become a Met Gala tradition — and de facto competition — pioneered in the last decade by showstopping guests like Beyoncé (starting in 2012, with a fluffy purple Givenchy train), and Rihanna (who in 2015 rode in a special stretch limo that could accommodate her 16-foot fur-trimmed yellow train). Last fall, more than two dozen guests arrived with trains cascading down the steps.
Megan Thee Stallion's train this year? "Heavy as hell," she said. But otherwise, the rapper chose not to stray far from her signature, form-fitting, bombshell style. At the last Met Gala, she called her Old Hollywood-inspired look "Megan Monroe."
"I feel my most confident in this type of silhouette," she said. "I feel like it gives me the confidence to go in front of all these people, in front of all these cameras, and really kill it."
Jeremy Scott said he became friendly with Megan Thee Stallion after she wrote an op-ed for The New York Times in 2020 about speaking up for Black women. The essay left Mr. Scott in tears, and he sent flowers and a note.
"Meg was very, very attuned to her image and how she looks and how she wants to look," he said about planning for the gala.
The rapper's gown was inspired by the intricate flourishes and carved moldings of an old-money, Gilded Age mansion, said Mr. Scott, who wanted to combine "all her hottiness with a bit of haughtiness as well." Her cape is made of pieces of gold leather, laser-cut to look like feathers.
"I just see her as a queen, and I wanted her to have this kind of mysticism," he said. "It's neither 'Game of Thrones' nor Queen Elizabeth, but capturing a note within this kind of regalness nevertheless."
May 2, 2022, 8:14 p.m. ET
Dressing for the Met
Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith Are Doing the Most
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Briefly, in the planning process, Joshua Jackson and Jodie Turner-Smith discussed gender-swapping their looks for the Met Gala.
"I was going to wear the tuxedo with tails, and he was going to wear a gown," Ms. Turner-Smith said.
"I'm not sure I could have pulled off your exact look," Mr. Jackson said, referring to the Gucci ensemble his wife ultimately wore on Monday night. It was a crystal chain bra and fringed miniskirt layered underneath a much longer pink pleated chiffon skirt. "I've got the legs for it, I'd like to say."
"You have the legs!" Ms. Turner-Smith agreed. "He's got great legs."
Even so, Mr. Jackson felt his Gucci look was sufficiently novel. He wore a custom black coat with tails on top of a white evening shirt, gray double-breasted vest and pinstripe pants.
"I've never worn tails in my life," he said. "So it feels, in the proper way that a costume ball should, like I'm actually putting on a costume. But also I just look really good. It's hard to keep up — you really got to keep it together when you're standing next to her."
"I love seeing him dress up," Ms. Turner said. "He looks damn good in a suit."
Yes, the actors, who married in 2019, really are this adorable, ribbing and complimenting each other in equal measure, radiating a chemistry that burns through any medium: Instagram post, fashion campaign, Zoom call with a journalist.
While Mr. Jackson has attended the Met Gala several times, Monday was the first time for Ms. Turner-Smith, a Gucci ambassador who said she wanted to channel the "over-the-top and fantastical" energy of the Gilded Age, if not the era's actual attire. ("My own personal motto: If you're not doing the most, you're not doing enough.") That doesn't mean she turned to her husband for insight about what the night is really like.
"He's a man of a certain age, and he's a male actor," she explained. "Sometimes when you ask people about those things, they're just like, crotchety, crotchety, crotchety."
"You don't think I would give you an accurate description of the joys to come?" Mr. Jackson asked with mock offense.
"You would give me an accurate description of how it's been boring for you in the past because you've never gone with anybody who's as amazing as me," Ms. Turner-Smith said, laughing. "It's kind of like when you have a child, right? You re-experience all of these things, and you see them through your child's eyes."
"Are you my kid in this situation?"
"Let me land the plane," Ms. Turner-Smith said. "In this sense, I'm having this childlike experience, seeing it with new eyes for the first time. So I feel like that's really going to give him this whole new experience of it."
Mr. Jackson nodded. "I'll go with that."
May 2, 2022, 8:08 p.m. ET
Hillary Clinton attends the Met Gala for the first time in two decades.
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Hillary Clinton's dress is making a statement: that shaping history is itself a form of glamour.
She is wearing a red Altuzarra gown embroidered with the names of American women she admires, including Harriet Tubman, Madeleine K. Albright, Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt and Clara Barton.
"I would've filled the entire dress," Mrs. Clinton, the former secretary of state, told Vanessa Hudgens and Hamish Bowles during the Vogue livestream from the red carpet.
She added that she was excited to be celebrating America tonight — "not just the fashion of America," she said, "but also the spirit of America."
Last time Mrs. Clinton was at the Met Gala, in 2001, the theme was "Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years," and she wore a cheetah-print gown.
May 2, 2022, 8:04 p.m. ET
After Julianne Moore, we have a second Jackie O. on the red carpet: Kris Jenner. Apparently, the whole family is coming dressed as American icons.
May 2, 2022, 8:04 p.m. ET
Olivia Rodrigo is wearing Versace and looks like a fairy princess with butterflies in her hair.
May 2, 2022, 8:03 p.m. ET
With deep and sincere regrets to the fashion gods and our audience, the mystery is solved and this is not Jared Leto. It's Fredrik Robertsson, who identified himself as a creative director in 2019 in a Vogue story about his mysterious presence.
May 2, 2022, 7:57 p.m. ET
Elon Musk finds time for fashion in the midst of trying to buy Twitter.
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Elon Musk, who has spent the last week dominating headlines after his successful bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion, is apparently taking the night off from tweeting to appear at the Met Gala with his mother, the supermodel Maye Musk.
Mr. Musk last attended the Met Gala in 2018 — the theme that year was "Heavenly Bodies" — where he made his red carpet debut with Grimes, his girlfriend at the time. They are no longer a couple but have two children together.
Ms. Musk's first Met Gala was in 2016. Her modeling career spans five decades. She is also a dietitian and nutritionist with two master's degrees. In 2013, she appeared in Beyoncé's music video for "Haunted."
We hope they have a nice time.
May 2, 2022, 7:41 p.m. ET
Julianne Moore channels Jacqueline Kennedy.
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In yet another interpretation of the night's theme, the actress Julianne Moore arrived at the Met Gala wearing a strapless white gown by Tom Ford that was inspired not by the Gilded Age, but a gilded age: American Camelot.
The ivory dress is a reinterpretation of a strapless lavender gown that Jacqueline Kennedy wore in January 1963 to a ceremony at the National Gallery of Art. Like the former first lady, Ms. Moore accessorized with long gloves.
"I think she was somebody who was just indescribably elegant," said Ms. Moore, who has attended the Met Gala several times, though never as a guest of her longtime collaborator Mr. Ford.
"I've definitely seen the transformation," Ms. Moore said. "The first time that I went to the Met in '98, it was a much more sedate affair, a quieter affair. It felt solely about the fashion world. And I think over the years, it's become kind of this huge explosive event." (Her comments somewhat echo those recently made by Mr. Ford: "The only thing about the Met that I wish hadn't happened is that it's turned into a costume party.")
Ms. Moore said she has never been particularly tempted by the extreme costumery of the gala, having spent enough time in costume at work.
"I usually want to wear something that makes me feel good," she said. "Tom is very much about classic beauty and classic American fashion."
May 2, 2022, 7:41 p.m. ET
Architecture is in the air. Alicia Keys as the Empire State Building in Ralph Lauren is fabulous.
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May 2, 2022, 7:40 p.m. ET
Have we seen any bare hands tonight? It feels like they're all tucked away in a pair of opera gloves.
May 2, 2022, 7:40 p.m. ET
It's the easy out.
May 2, 2022, 7:44 p.m. ET
Cynthia Erivo's nails were a bright spot among the seemingly few bare hands.
May 2, 2022, 8:48 p.m. ET
New addition to the opera glove discourse: Kodi Smit-McPhee is wearing long gloves in red leather (by Bottega Veneta, which also made his cool pants that look just like jeans but are actually leather).
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May 2, 2022, 7:31 p.m. ET
This look is like ... a phoenix, rising from the ashes of the gilded age?
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May 2, 2022, 7:40 p.m. ET
This looks like what being on Twitter feels like for me personally.
May 2, 2022, 7:55 p.m. ET
There is speculation on Twitter this isn't Jared Leto after all. We're getting to the bottom of it!
May 2, 2022, 7:23 p.m. ET
Sarah Jessica Parker continues to show her deep belief in the value of statement hats on the red carpet.
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May 2, 2022, 7:21 p.m. ET
Normani is shimmering (literally), thanks to a bit of body glitter.
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May 2, 2022, 7:18 p.m. ET
Hillary Clinton has arrived, with very good hair. Her Joseph Altuzarra dress is embroidered with the names of American women who inspired her, including Abigail Adams and Harriet Tubman.
May 2, 2022, 7:16 p.m. ET
Oh, to be the baby of Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner, walking the red carpet of the Met Gala draped in Louis Vuitton.
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May 2, 2022, 7:17 p.m. ET
Nepo baby, you mean.
May 2, 2022, 7:38 p.m. ET
As my colleague Liz Pierson (who edits the @nytimes Instagram account) just pointed out, she looks like a young Grace Coddington. (I love her look tonight.)
May 2, 2022, 7:15 p.m. ET
Jack Harlow looks G-L-A-M-O-R-O-U-S in a chocolate suit.
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May 2, 2022, 7:06 p.m. ET
Here's a guide to all the 'nepotism babies' on the red carpet.
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At an event where the most famous figures in the worlds of fashion, film and business gather to bask in each other's presence, the odds of at least one "nepotism baby" walking the red carpet is 100 percent.
Some were to be expected — for instance, Bee Carrozzini, the daughter of Anna Wintour, and Francesco Carrozzini, son of the late Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani. (The couple had a double-Vogue nepotism baby in November.)
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But there are also several rising children of A-listers on the guest list tonight. Kaia Gerber (daughter of Cindy Crawford) and Maude Apatow (daughter of Judd) have already arrived. Iris Law (daughter of Jude) is expected to walk the carpet.
Also on the list: Ben Platt (son of Marc Platt, a Hollywood producer), Patrick Schwarzenegger (son of Arnold), Lila Moss (daughter of Kate), Lori Harvey (daughter of Steve) and Ansel Elgort (son of Arthur). And Annie Leibovitz has already shown up with her daughter Samuelle Leibovitz.
Could these nepo babies use the opportunity to outshine their famous forebears?
May 2, 2022, 6:11 p.m. ET
In photos: The People's Ball in Brooklyn.
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The Brooklyn Public Library celebrated its 125th birthday on Sunday by bringing back the People's Ball. Unlike the Met Gala — an exclusive, invitation-only event, where tickets start at $35,000 — this gala was held in the People's Republic of Brooklyn, and attendance was democratized. All New Yorkers were welcomed as guests to celebrate their unique style, fashion and energy at the Central Library at Grand Army Plaza.
The event, which was hosted by the writers Isaac Fitzgerald and Scaachi Koul, featured performances by Opera Gaga and Paris the Hip-Hop Juggler. The guests of honor included models from Grandassa, a venerated African American agency, and the Harlem Institute of Fashion.
May 2, 2022, 4:59 p.m. ET
An uninvited guest at the gala: talk of the new Anna Wintour biography.
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When Anna Wintour, officially an honorary co-chair of the Met Gala, unofficially its prime mastermind, takes her customary place this evening atop the museum stairs to greet her famous guests, she will be doing so not just in the shadow of the giant, eagle-bedecked marquee, but that of a new, unauthorized biography: "Anna," by Amy Odell. Met watchers and Met attendees alike may well be rubbing their hands in anticipatory glee, and whispering over dinner.
Maybe now all will be revealed! The way Ms. Wintour gets brands to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for a table! The inside scoop on who is on the banned guest list! How she chooses what she wears — and what a lot of other people wear too!
Dream on.
As Willy Staley wrote in The New York Times Book Review, "You'll walk away knowing every step — and misstep — in Wintour's famous ascent to the heights of magazinedom, but without a working theory of the case, no conceptual framework to pack it all into and remember it by."
Though written with the input of a variety of past and present Anna acolytes, the book is not particularly revealing; the gossip is largely familiar for anyone who has followed the Wintour ascendancy, though those who haven't may find it vaguely dishy.
The Met Gala being a case in point. Though Ms. Wintour's role in the party is duly recorded, including her alleged banning of parsley and onions and garlic from the dinner, readers looking for insight about how she has worked the levers of power to transform a classic New York cultural fund-raiser into an unprecedented event that raised $16.4 million in one night last September will be largely disappointed.
In any case, Ms. Wintour is already coolly casting doubt on the book. When asked for comment, her office simply emailed back: "'Anna: The Biography' was written without Anna's participation and, regrettably, she was not given the opportunity to fact check anything in it."
Which may be in itself a more palpable demonstration of her canny gamesmanship — showing her security by not forbidding anyone from talking to the author, even helping by having her office suggest some names, such that the author actually thanked her in the author's note, then implying questions about its reliability — than anything in between the pages.
May 2, 2022, 4:12 p.m. ET
Before the evening's frenzy, Jill Biden visits the Met's new fashion exhibit.
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Met Gala Monday technically begins well before the first celebrity guests arrive to walk the carpet outside the museum's Fifth Avenue entrance. The real kickoff comes a few hours earlier, when members of the press and assorted fashion personalities gather to see the Costume Institute's new exhibit for the first time.
The guest of honor at this morning's formal unveiling of the exhibition, "In America: An Anthology of Fashion"? The first lady, Jill Biden, who delivered remarks about the power of fashion as a communication tool.
"Our style helps us express things that can't be put into words," Dr. Biden said. "We reveal and conceal who we are with symbols and shapes, colors and cuts — and who creates them."
Ahead of the State of the Union address, amid the early days of the war in Ukraine, Dr. Biden said she "knew that the only thing that would be reported about me was what I was wearing" that night. So she ordered appliqués of sunflowers, the national flower of Ukraine, and had one sewn onto the sleeve of her cobalt blue dress, in a show of solidarity.
"That night, sitting next to the Ukrainian ambassador, I knew that I was sending a message without saying a word," she said.
The first lady was invited to speak at the museum that morning by Anna Wintour, an honorary co-chair of the gala, who was in attendance along with Condé Nast's chief executive, Roger Lynch.
After her remarks, Dr. Biden received a private tour of the exhibition, which highlights the work of female designers and dressmakers in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. But she did not, like several other luminaries in attendance, then leave the museum to begin preparations for the red carpet: She will not be attending the Met Gala.
May 2, 2022, 4:03 p.m. ET
Tonight's the night: How can I watch the Met Gala red carpet?
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As guests make their gilded, glamorous entrances at the Met Gala on Monday, New York Times journalists will be on the scene, capturing red carpet arrivals and doing their level best to get Timothée Chalamet to look their way.
For those watching from home, the Vogue.com livestream may be the next best thing to scoring one of the $35,000 tickets. Starting at 6 p.m., it will be hosted by the actress Vanessa Hudgens, the VH1 star La La Anthony and Hamish Bowles, a Vogue editor at large.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/05/02/fashion/met-gala-2022
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