![]() ![]() Patrick McMullan via Getty Image The 2023 Met GalaĪs is tradition, the 2023 Met Gala will take place on the first Monday in May, which this year happens to fall on May 1. As a tribute to Wintour, the Metropolitan Museum of Art renamed its Costume Institute the Anna Wintour Costume Center in 2014, which was unveiled just in time for that year’s “Charles James: Beyond Fashion” exhibition, following two years of renovations.Īnna Wintour and Karl Lagerfeld. Wintour also introduced celebrity performances as part of the evening’s entertainment over the years, musicians including Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Madonna, and Cher have taken the stage.ĭuring her over 20-year reign, Wintour has reportedly raised more than $175 million to benefit the Costume Institute’s exhibitions, staff, and research (the 2022 Met Gala alone brought in a record $17.4 million). In 2005, Wintour moved the gala to the first Monday in May, which has remained the official date of the party with the exceptions of the COVID-era years. ![]() Together and independently, they worked on exhibitions including “Chanel” (2005), “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty” (2011), and “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations” (2012). Under Wintour, Harold Koda and Andrew Bolton were brought on as curator-in-charge and curator Bolton would later be promoted to curator-in-charge following Koda’s retirement in 2016. After taking over, Wintour began to curate the guest list to mirror the pages of Vogue, including a mix of A-list celebrities, socialites, athletes, politicians, and royalty. Wintour is involved in all of the planning and the execution of the Met Gala, and that includes the much-discussed guest list. Wintour has overseen the Met Gala ever since (excluding the 19 fêtes ), building upon the party’s success and cementing its status as one of the biggest events-and most coveted invitations-of the year. With the Met Gala firmly established as the social event of the season, Buckley took over hosting duties until Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour became chairwoman in 1995. John Galliano, Anna Wintour, and Oscar de la Renta. Vreeland served as special consultant until her death in 1989 she was behind ambitious exhibitions such as “The World of Balenciaga” (1973) and “The Glory of Russian Costume,” (1976), and hosted a more star-studded guest list, with notable figures like socialite Patricia Buckley and former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis acting as Met Gala co-chairs over the years. During Vreeland’s tenure, which began in 1972, the Met Gala moved on-site to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and gala themes tied to each exhibit were launched. It was upon former Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland’s appointment as the Costume Institute’s special consultant that the modern-day Met Gala began to take shape. ![]() These early Costume Institute Benefits took place at various locations across New York City, in venues including Central Park, Waldorf Astoria and the Rainbow Room.ĭiana Vreeland and Yves Saint Laurent. The original benefit was an invitation-only midnight supper, with a guest list comprised primarily of New York society members and fashion industry bigwigs, and tickets priced at $50 per person. Two years later, legendary fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert introduced the Costume Institute Benefit, the first fundraising event for the foundation, to celebrate the opening of the annual exhibit. In 1946, the Museum of Costume Art merged with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and became the Costume Institute. ![]() The Met Gala’s beginnings go all the back to 1937, when American heiress and philanthropist Irene Lewisohn founded the Costume Institute (formerly the Museum of Costume Art). A portrait of Eleanor Lambert of the Council of Fashion Designers of America. ![]()
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