Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and Met curator Andrew Bolton shared the implicit no-nos of attending the Met Gala that could pb to 1 not getting invited back.
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The yearly Met Gala has go a coveted invitation for celebrities, with the who's who of Hollywood strutting their stuff connected the NYC museum's iconic steps. The pricey tickets and selective impermanent database marque the lawsuit some costly and exclusive, with past year's Met Gala raising $17 million for the Costume Institute.
Wintour—Vogue's exertion and the event's organizer—admitted there's nary nonstop look for however 1 tin people an invite, but it's a spot much clear who won't be invited back.
During an quality connected CBS This Morning May 1, Wintour and Met curator Andrew Bolton revealed the cardinal rules: nary smoking and nary touching the artwork.
"Those would beryllium no-nos," Bolton said, recalling however stars have smoked successful the restrooms contempt the strict policy. (In 2017, Bella Hadid, Dakota Johnson and Marc Jacobs were among the stars caught lighting up successful the bathroom, which reportedly led to the Met receiving a missive from the New York City Department of Health.)
So, however does Wintour determine who to invitation each year? Rule breakers aside, she noted, "It depends connected the year. It depends connected the taxable of the exhibition. Really, there's nary wide reply to that."
Wintour added, "We're ever funny successful trying to bespeak a taste moment, and what we consciousness is happening astatine the satellite successful immoderate fixed time."
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As for however she handles immoderate celebs upset for being near out? "You know, there's ever different year," the 73-year-old explained, "and each twelvemonth we effort and marque it different, person antithetic radical come. So evidently there's ever adjacent year."
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