Just when you thought the pandemic had finished causing trouble for the fashion industry – decimating jobs and revenues and instilling an addiction to tracksuits in millions of people that could spell the death of trends – along came the 2021 Met Gala.This annual parade of fashionistas in their finery – known as ‘fashion’s Oscars’ – is in theory a fundraising benefit for New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Guests theme their outfits to the Costume Institute’s pretentiously titled exhibitions (this year: In America: An Anthology of Fashion) and spend lavishly for the chance to show off: tickets to last month’s extravaganza were $30,000 apiece and tables from $200,000 to $300,000.
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