Known as “The Super Bowl of Fashion”, the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art dead Gala It was founded in 1948 by fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert to raise funds for the museum. In the decades that followed, the event doubled as an upcoming party for the country’s hottest celebrities from the worlds of film, music, and fashion. With single tickets costing $35,000 and tables costing $200,000-300,000, you’d better believe that celebrities dressed up for the occasion.
Vogue magazine Editor Anna Wintour has served as event chairperson since 1995, overseeing the guest list and deciding who gets to attend and who gets to get lost in the mail. Below is a list of celebrities, from fashion giants to powerful politicians, who have never been invited to the Met Gala.
Donald Trump
While Anna Wintour is rarely recorded on the transcript to discuss the event’s guest list, she did make one political exception. While visiting a late night talk show on CBS Late Show with James CordenHost Wintour asked Point Blank who she would never invite to the party. She responded by naming controversial former President Donald Trump, who was a regular at the party until he entered politics and even proposed to his now-wife Melania there in 2004.
Supermodel Coco Rocha
In 2017, the one-time concert of New York Post She did not receive an invitation that year. When asked why, she objected and referred the matter to Wintour, although it didn’t help that that year’s co-chair was Katy Perry, who was publicly mocked by Rocha for wearing the same outfit as Rocha at the VMA. before.
Designer Rachel Zoe
Zoe was not invited from the 2007 Met Gala after bragging about a The New York Times Profile, “Anna Wintour is one of my heroes, but they say I’m more influential. As cool as it is, Vogue magazine It wouldn’t change the designer’s business.” Wintour may not have helped her work, but she did get the designer 86’ed off the guest list, though Zoe has since reported at the Met Gala for The Hollywood Reporter He also goes on to model Hollywood’s most famous actresses for the event.
escape projectTim Jan
Gann told E! Fashion Police In 2016 he was permanently excluded from the Met Gala after wanting to New York Post In 2006 he once saw Anna Wintour being taken down a ladder by two senior bodyguards. When Vogue magazine Flack called Gunn to retract his statement, but he refused, which led to an ongoing feud between the fashion giants. Mail! The clip, which you can watch above, leads to Gunn being surprised by two older men carrying him off the set.
Tina Fey
The 30 rocks The creator and star’s invitation may not be officially declined, but they certainly won’t receive an invite to a Facebook event, either, after you proceed Late Show with David Letterman He described the event as a “burlesque parade”. She then added, “Obviously, I’ll never come back again, but you have to go, it’s this beautiful space and it’s just a jerk from all walks of life wearing something stupid.”
Chloe Kardashian
Sister Kim Tempa was banned from the event in 2012 because she wasn’t famous enough to attend, but she and fellow Kardashians Kendall and Kylie Jenner are now annual red carpet regulars. It wasn’t the case for sister Chloe, who Wintour allegedly feels is missing out on the notoriety degree cut, as she reportedly described Khloe as “more of a C-list” to attend. In 2021, a fan asked Khloe on Twitter if the story was true, and she immediately replied, “Not true at all.”
Josh Hartnett
at first monday of may, A 2016 documentary about the Met Gala, Anna Wintour cast some serious shadow on Hartnett, who starred in West Direct to VOD wild horses With Robert Duvall and James Franco the previous year. In the movie, he called fashion czar Calvin Klein Vogue magazine We ask them to wear clothes black hawk fell The star of the event whose response was “What did he do lately? Nothing. You guys are all set.”
