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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Catherine Bennett

What do you get when a lack of taste meets a shedload of cash? Anna Wintour’s ball

Kim Kardashian and comedian Pete Davidson arrive for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Kim Kardashian, ‘squashed into the very dress in which Marilyn Monroe once sang Happy Birthday, Mr President’, arrives with comedian Pete Davidson for the 2022 Met Gala at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images

‘Gilded glamour” was the theme of last week’s Met Gala, the annual fancy dress party that has long been run, to generally adulatory international effect, by Anna Wintour, the magazine eminence. This year’s guests included Lila Moss, Brooklyn Beckham, assorted actors and influencers and first among countless Kardashians, Kim, the underwear magnate, squashed into the very dress in which Marilyn Monroe once sang Happy Birthday, Mr President.

Wintour’s staff hailed Kardashian’s achievement in Vogue: “Orchestrating a style maneuver of this magnitude would require new levels of commitment and planning.”

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