The first Monday in May can mean only one thing: fashion’s one per cent check into The Mark Hotel, spend hours in glam, and make their way up the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s grandiose steps for the Met Gala — all wearing the most magnificent (and likely wackiest) outfits they will all year.
No matter what you call it — the style Olympics, the sartorial Oscars or the fashionistas World Cup — the event, which originated as a simple high society dinner in 1948, is one of the most important evenings of the year for the industry.
