How the Met Gala, which costs $75,000 per ticket, became more about money and less about fashion
Last year’s Met Ball cost around £6 million to stage and raised £22 million. The profits went to the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute, once a somewhat stuffy institution that even its then curator, Harold Korda, described as a “benign tumor,” so overlooked by the Met’s loftier, “purer” art departments . Then in 1995, Anna Wintour … Read more