Cue the Justin Timberlake memes because it's gonna be May and the Super Bowl of fashion is upon us.
Fortunately, not everyone has to pay to attend, as Anna Wintour is known to invite up-and-coming designers to the gala. And, usually, the celebrities invited specifically to model a designer's work on the carpet don't have to pony up either.
"We do want the experience to feel intimate for our guests, so in the past few years, we've really scaled back and dropped numbers by almost 200 or 300 people," Vogue's Sylvana Ward Durrett told Fast Company. ."We have sort of a running to-do list that just gets longer and longer as we get closer—and we literally go through [it] every day, even if it's redundant."
If you've ever tried to do seating arrangements for a wedding, you might have a tiny understanding of just how difficult it is to do the seating chart for the Met Gala. This is one of the most important aspects of the event that the team spends the most time on, strategically seating guests by looking at common interests.
Listen, every event has that table that gets the nosebleed seats, usually near the kitchen and/or the bathroom. The Met Gala is no exception, so designers' table positions usually change each year. And Wintour is very involved in the process, infamously chastising her team for trying to hide the H&M table in a scene from "The First Monda"y in May. "We shouldn't bury this table…seriously, that's not fair," she said.
Alas, not everyone is happy with their assigned seat, as famed fashion critic Cathy Horn noted in her 2006 piece for The New York Times:"John Lydon, the former Sex Pistol known as Johnny Rotten, found his seat—the last at a long table and arguably one of the least desirable in the highly orchestrated seating plan—he was visibly upset...[he] stormed out twice, cursing museum workers.
Glorious Food owner Sean Driscoll, who catered every Met Gala from 1995 through 2018, said the decision to serve lamb potpies for 2011's"Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty" theme resulted in"a lot of special requests" as"many [guests] did not want to eat that." The magazine declined to comment on the report, but a source told The Hollywood Reporter at the time,"It has solely to do with guests' security and enjoyment of the event."
Prior to 2018, some of the youngest attendees included siblings Jaden Smith and Willow Smith attending in 2016 when they were 17 and 15, respectively, Elle Fanning making her debut at the event when she was just 13, and Hailee Steinfeld attending her first Met Gala in 2011 at age 14. That means that, for the most part, a celebrity's look is up to the designer that invited them to the event.
After he narrows down his search, he presents it for approval to the museum's director before Wintour then signs off on it about one year ahead of time.
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