The 2024 theme of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition was “Sleeping Beauties: Reliving Fashion”, which ultimately went hand in hand with the festival’s dress code, i.e. “The Garden of Time”.

Over the past few years, a select number of celebrities have often been seen walking the Met Gala red carpet in ensembles inspired by these pre-established themes. The choice of wardrobe for the glittering event has always been under heavy scrutiny from netizens as people keep questioning whether the attendees “fully understood the assignment.”

Except for a good few divas, including Zendaya, Blake Lively, Rihanna, and Lady Gaga, who have somehow always knocked it out of the park with their Met ensembles, becoming perennial fan-favorite spectacles. However, with this year’s theme, Wintour claimed to have broken her “cardinal rule”, which ultimately opened up room for “many, many things” and a whole lot of “confusion” about the dress code.

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Here’s why Anna Wintour apologized about the 2024 Met Gala theme

Speaking to TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager on Monday, May 6, Wintour said, “This exhibition broke my cardinal rule.”

Wintour further explained, “When we came up with the title ‘Sleeping Beauties,’ it was wonderful and poetic and romantic, but really, it could have been many things.”

She also said that when seeking advice from Andrew Bolton, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, for the festival’s dress code, Wintour asked him, “What would we tell people to wear this night?” After this Bolton came up with the theme ‘Garden of Time’.

Wintour added, “I’m afraid we’ve caused a lot of confusion there, and for that I deeply apologize.”

This no doubt inspired them to consider what celebrities would actually wear on D-Day. Wintour knew in advance that she would see “a lot of flowers”. The Today interviewer then probed further to confirm whether Wintour herself would adopt the idea of ​​playing with flowers. “Probably,” the Vogue chief teased, adding that for all we know, it worked out after all, as she was spotted flaunting flowers on the red carpet on Monday.

Speaking more on what ‘Sleeping Beauties’ represented, Wintour explained, “The idea of ​​’Sleeping Beauties’ is taking these masterpieces from different periods, and because many of them are so delicate, they have to be placed behind glass walls. The back is laid flat.”

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The lines between fantasy and reality have blurred

Beyond the pages of reality, seeing the fashion night’s floral-inspired theme, netizens were instantly transported back in time, and recalled Meryl Streep’s iconic line from the 2006 comedy-drama film The Devil Wears Prada, based on Lauren Weisberger’s novel. Did.

Although the author of The Devil Wears Prada has not officially announced the fashion of her gray counterpart (of some sort) Miranda Priestly after Wintour, the world’s audiences have somehow collectively come to grips with the fact that this is a real-life Is heavily inspired by Vogue Boss.

Some fans even quoted Priestley’s sarcastic immortal words, “Flowers? For spring? Groundbreaking,” and linked them to Wintour’s real-life Met Gala theme, moving away from Priestley’s script. Although Vogue’s main apology for the theme centered more around the “confusion” it generated, one can’t help but Now can correlate the breaking of it with the “main rule”.