It also launches the annual spring exhibit that brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to the museum.īut it’s the carpet itself that draws the world’s eyes, with the guest list - strategically withheld until the last minute - featuring a collection of notables from movies, music, fashion, sports, politics and social media that arguably makes for the highest celebrity wattage-per-square-foot of any party in the world. It’s important to note that the party has a purpose - last year, the evening earned $17.4 million for the Met’s Costume Institute, a self-funding department. (And, folks, she’s coming back - she posted a photo from Paris with Lagerfeld’s famous cat, Choupette, noting she was in the French capital scoping out possibilities for this year’s attire.) There was controversy later over suspicions, denied by Ripley’s, that she’d caused some damage. President” dress (borrowed from Ripley’s Believe It or Not! museum), changing the minute she got inside to protect it.
And last year she truly stole the carpet, showing up in Marilyn Monroe’s actual, rhinestone-studded “Happy Birthday, Mr. Two years ago, she wore a dark bodysuit that covered even her face. One year, she wore a dress so tight, she admitted she had to take breathing lessons beforehand. Then there’s Kim Kardashian, bringing commitment to a whole other level.
And, last year, host Blake Lively’s Versace dress - a tribute to iconic New York architecture - that changed colors in front of our eyes. Also: Beyoncé in her “naked dress.” Billy Porter as an Egyptian sun god, carried on a litter by six shirtless men.
We’re talking Rihanna as a bejeweled pope. Zendaya as Cinderella with a light-up gown. Katy Perry as a chandelier morphing into a hamburger.
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