Click here to buy this shirt: https://teeextra.com/product/official-luigi-mangione-rage-againstthe-machine-shirt/ And so the Met countdown begins! This week marks the first of three special episodes taking youInside the planning, prepping, and plotting behind the Met Gala. The show today alsoIncludes some reminiscing from me and Chioma about our favorite Met Gala hits and misses.I started working at Vogue on the last Tuesday of April 2011, also known as less than a week before the Met Gala, andIt was a real trial by fire. Chioma started at Vogue the year before, and we both recall our favorite fashion moments (Chioma’sInvolved a Barbie cake version of her 2017 Nile Cmylo/Lou Dallas confection, mineInvolved someIll advised feathers).
The CostumeInstitute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has played host to a number of red carpet rebels over the years. Katy Perry famously lit up the night with her dress of 3,000 LEDsIn 2010, and who could forget Marc Jacobs’s outrageous chic Comme des Garçons lace lookIn 2012? And yet thereIs a sub section of stylish dressers who subvert the rulesIn more subtle ways: Enter the theme rejectors. Over the years, a number of stars haveIgnored the Met Gala’s dress code and marched to the beat of their own drum like when Jennifer Love Hewitt wore a marabou feathered ball skirt to the 1999 rock and roll themed gala. Below, VogueIs rounding up the 66 best moments whereIndividuality ruled.