Anyone who works the Met Gala—in any capacity—can tell you it's extremely tiring. Celebrities who attend spend weeks preparing, as we know, but there are also hundreds of event staffers, museum curators, janitors, stylists, vendors, photographers, content creators, and editors who put in weeks of overtime and prep. It's both a marathon and a sprint that typically takes several days to recover from. (I, myself, am still catching up.)
However exhausting the red carpet and after-parties may be, they did nothing to impact Miley Cyrus's grind. After churning out two couture looks the night of (both from Alaïa), the pop star woke up on the first Tuesday in May and served four more looks in less than 12 hours. The impact of this truly cannot be overstated.
