The Best, the Worst, the Least, and the Most of the 2024 Met Gala

Will Vogue ever manage to pull off a competent live event?!

If you were puzzled by the theme and/or dress code at the Met Gala last night, you were not alone. The exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art carried the “Sleeping Beauties” theme, in reference to outfits that cannot be worn again — inspired, no doubt, by Kim Kardashian in 2022 borrowing and ruining that iconic Marilyn Monroe collector’s piece. But it’s hard to have a dress code based on things you shouldn’t wear, so Anna and her curators picked an alternative, and eventually had to eat a little crow. As Amy Odell wrote in

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In fact, Anna went on the Today show Monday morning and apologized for the “confusion” over the theme, given that the Costume Institute exhibition Sleeping Beauties — which the Gala opens — is different from the dress code. I won’t say she blamed it on Costume Institute Chief Curator Andrew Bolton, but…

“I said, ‘What are we gonna say to people to wear to this night?’ And he said, ‘Well, what about ‘Garden of Time?’” she said. “So, I fear that we’ve unleashed a l…