What started as a ravishing benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute — featuring New York City’s upper crust, the fashion industry’s top tier, starlets as style muses, and supermodels — has spiraled into a circus with Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour as ringmaster.
By now, you’re probably scrolling through your social media feed to see the utter clownery that walked its way into the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday evening.
The evening’s theme, “Fashion is Art,” played on the Costume Institute’s exhibit this year, titled “Costume Art,” which looks at the relationship between garments and artwork.
The event was chaired by a random hodge-podge of celebrities — Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and (of course) Anna Wintour. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos were named honorary chairs after reportedly dropping $10 million to sponsor the event, a move that buys them favor with Wintour and her coalition of
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