The best anecdotes of the Met Gala

Nicknamed the ‘Empress of the Seventh Avenue’, the publicist Eleanor Lambert became his own merit in the most important woman of American fashion. We owe her to create in 1948 the party of the year, which Diana Vreeland, the former almighty editor of the Vogue American and new special consultant of the Metropolitan Art Museum of New York renamed the MET Gala in 1971. In addition, he transferred the event to the first Monday of May.

This Monday, May 5, dozens of cinema celebrities, music, fashion, television, sport or socialites will meet in this Great World Coverage Event that runs Férrea Anne Wintour (75 years). The executive has been exercised since 1995 as co -chair of the MET Gala. In tonight’s edition The subject is dedicated to Superfine: Tailoring Black Stylea tribute to male tailoring and black dandism, has as hosts Lewis Hamilton (40), Pharrell Williams (52) Colman Domingo (55) and at $ Ap Rocky (36).

But let’s make a little Flashback Before explaining the best anecdotes of this fieston. As Eleanor Lambert was in love with art in the broadest sense of the word was the first press director of the Whitney Museum -in honor of one of the millionaire surnames of the golden age -, he collaborated in the MMAA foundation and created the Association of Art Merchants of the United States. Due to his impeccable work, Dalí or Pollock had as clients.

Until the outbreak of World War II, the fashion epicenter had been Paris. Due to the restrictions and production requirements of the Vichy government and the occupation of the Nazis, The magic of the French designs was evaporating. Lambert benefited from this historical fact to enhance American fashion. In 1940 he founded the international list of the best dressed, in 1943 he created New York Fashion Week and after the fusion of the Museum of Art of the Costume with the Metropolitan Museum of Art gave rise to the Institute of the suit.

It is this last organism that benefits from the charity held in the New York Metropolitan Museum that whose staircase of the fifth avenue The red carpet will shine more than in the Oscar gala.

Thanks to your Avizor eye, Lambert helped Óscar de la Renta, Bill Blass or Halston since its inceptionwho jumped to fame after designing the Pillbox that Jackie Kennedy wore at the investiture ceremony of her husband John F. Kennedy in 1961 that would become the 35th president of the United States. Likewise, the famous publicist was the one who oriented the first lady to stop buying so much French design and opting for the American, so she presented Igor Cassini, who was also the designer par excellence of Grace Kelly.

After the death of Eleanor Lambert in 2003 to 100 years, the MET gala has continued on the right track of Anne Wintour, which controls from beginning to end everything that happens in Met.

In terms of whims almost nobody wins Kim Kardashian (46), which in recent days is currently for the trial held in Paris for the theft of their jewels. The socialite went to the gala with her boyfriend Pete Davidson (31) wrapped in the conical dress that Marilyn Monroe wore when she sang to JF Kennedy her famous Happy Birthday In Madison Square Garden. Despite having lost 7 kilos, Kardashian caused damage to the design purchased at auction a few years before for 4.8 million dollars. Its owner, Scott Fortner, confessed that he lacked crystals and some of them hung from a thread.

TO Timothée Chalamet (29) The star concept does not go with him. It prefers to be earthly. The Oscar nominee for Call me by your name (2017) and Kylie Jenner boyfriend (27) decided to get to the event on foot. While crossing the fences that separated the guests of the curious, the actor walked while his followers shouted and cheered his name. It happened in 2021, The only time in which the gala was held in September due to the Covid pandemic.

The Kardashian-Jenner always give the note. And they know how to do it. In 2017, Anne Wintour’s standard was skipped to the bullfighter. selfies And immediately they summoned their friends to take a picture with their friends in one of the bathrooms. An image as iconic as the Selfie performed by Ellen Degeneres (67) In the Oscars.

The model and businesswoman It has not been the only one to break the regulations. In 2015, Lenny Kravitz (60), his then wife Lisa Bonet (57) and his daughter Zoë (36) did not hesitate to get a Selfie; In 2017, Dakota Johnson (35), Rami Malek (43), Courtney Love (60), Marc Jacobs (62) and Rita Ora (32) They published photos smoking in the bathrooms; Actor Ezra Miller (32) appeared in 2019 with a five -eyed hypnotic makeup that practically prevented him from looking at her face; The singer tRoye Sivan (29) appeared in 2021 in a photo on his back, dressed as a woman, with heels and in front of a urinary; Doja Cat (29) caught her rapping in 2023 and Chris Hemsworth took countless dolphins while she was having dinner and the same did in another scenario.

You could say that the 2018 appointment became the best decoration for Cupid to make his own. In the immaculate stairs of the museum and before the presence of dozens of flashes, rapper and composer 2 Chainz (47) He knelt to ask Kesha Ward marriage (46). They married in August that same year after having three children, Heaven, Harmony and EPPs. In the 2016 Met Gala with the Manus X Machina theme: Fashion in an era of technology, the interior of the museum lived an endearing moment when Lady Gaga congratulated her intimate friend Donatella Versace with a three -story golden tone cake and with the logo of the fashion house.

The first real touch that the event has had It happened in 1996 when Lady Direcently divorced Prince Carlos, went to the tribute that was paid to Christian Dior. For the occasion he wore a blue lingerie dress designed by John Gallianowho had just put in charge of the French Maison. The piece caused a great scandal among the horn high British society because it did not respect the necessary canons. The exproach of Wales enhanced its beauty with the famous pearl collar and sapphire that the queen mother gave her. The attendees took a great disgust when the Royal He decided to leave before the dance.

In 1979 there was a historical fact. Jackie Kennedy only had to cross the sidewalk since her Penthouse was in 1040 of Fifth Avenue, in front of the main entrance of the museum, to go to the gala whose theme was The imperial style: Habsburg’s fashion. Since Kennedy’s murder, the former first lady had decided not to go to Saraos mass. Appeared radiant with an impressive dress of braces of Valentino (92) With staggered skirt and accompanied by a matching chal. Jackie’s shadow is so elongated that in the 2001 edition, Valentino recreated the design that the White House tenant exhibited on her visit to Cambodia in the figure of Marie-Chantal Miller (56).

After Brilli Brilli not everything is luxury, joy and glamor. Throughout the history of the met gala there has been Celebrities They have strongly criticized the event after having had a bad time. After the appearance of Gwyneth Paltrow (52) in 2013, The actress confessed that “I will never go again. It was nothing fun. It was an ordeal. I didn’t enjoy anything.” But he ate his own words as he reappeared in the 2017 and 2019 galas. Selena Gómez (32) came in 2019 and two years later confessed to Vogue That to look better he put on a bronzing lotion that at first looked quite uniform, but as the night passed, he darkened until he became orange. In 2006, John Lydon (69) – known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols – got angry because His seat was at the end of a very long table and ended up insulting Met staff.

Among the craziest moments are the Rihanna (37) Interpreting your subject Bitch Better Have My Money In 2015 on one of the tables where dinner was served; In 2018 Katy Perry (40) surprised to show off a Versace design of Angel with their respective wings deployed for which he needed a car to be able to move to the museum’s entrance; Jaret Leto (53) In 2019 with a replica of his head and long mane in his hand and in 2023 she was covered in a costume of cat that emulates Choupettethe Karl Lagerfeld cat, to whom the event of that year was dedicated.

How could it be otherwise, the great New York event could not miss some of the most recognizable Spanish faces at the international level. Among the females are Eugenia Silva (49) and Penelope Cruz (51) that have come on four glamorous occasions followed by Rosalía with three others, Elsa Pataky (48) With one, when her husband Chris Hemsworth (41) was one of the co -elites and twins Victory (24) and Cristina Iglesias (24). Men are Manu Ríos (26) with two occasions and José Mari Manzanares (43) with one.