The Met Gala is all about excess. It is the most ostentatious night in fashion, when celebs flock to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art in preposterous outfits, and tickets cost $75,000.
The evening raises a shedload of cash for the Met’s Costume Institute – $31 million this year, according to the New York Times – but the cost of putting it on is also in the millions. Sponsors with deep pockets are therefore a requisite.
