The Met Gala didn’t use to always be the first Monday in May.

For much of its early existence, it was a pre holiday spectacular to get everyone in the mood for the holidays.

As soon as the current person took over, she switched it immediately because she wanted to do the exact opposite of anything the former editor did.

Anyway, one particular year when it was still held in December, there was an alliterate designer who needed a very big loan because his business was struggling.

He was an A list designer at the time but needed funds.

Normally, he would have been the date of the person in charge, but that would have kept him from face time with people who could get him his money.

So, in an act that might have actually set her death in motion, he gave her something that made her seriously ill to the point where she couldn’t attend the event.

The designer then got to pick his date and he chose a model/socialite/twin who knew just the right people to get the designer the money.

In that particular year, the one name singer/actress had the best outfit.

Vogue

Anna Wintour

former editor: Diana Vreeland
Diana Vreeland was an American fashion columnist and editor. She worked for the fashion magazine Harper’s Bazaar and as editor-in-chief at Vogue, later becoming a special consultant to the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was named on the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1964

Year: 1974

alliterate designer: Bill Blass
fashion house founded by American designer Bill Blass

Consuelo Crespi
Consuelo Pauline O’Brien O’Connor Crespi was an American-born Italian countess who served the world of high fashion as a style-setting model and editor of Vogue and Vogue Italia. During the same period, her twin sister Gloria Schiff was a major influence on fashion as editor for the American edition of Vogue magazine.

one name singer/actress: Cher

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