Vogue retraces the glamorous history of the Met Gala, since the first party in 1948.
One can’t discuss the history of the Met Gala—an event attended by a mesmerizing constellation of stars, dressed in fashion with a capital F, to raise funds for The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute—without discussing the history of the Costume Institute itself. Imagine New York in the 1930s.
In Vreeland’s wake, with the exhibition now handed over to scholars, could the gala garner the same interest? 1988’s was curated by Caroline Goldthorpe, a curatorial assistant at the Institute, and by 1989 Richard Martin had been brought on as head of the Costume Institute, with Harold Koda supporting. Martin helmed the department until his death in 1999.
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