Anna Wintour’s irrelevant Met Ball is on tonight.
Ticket prices are so gruesomely high — $100,000 per table or more — that I’ve heard many fashionistas have dropped out. I mean, execs at the big companies. I know their names, but I won’t embarrass them. They don’t want to cross Anna.
The 2023 Met Ball has lot of other problems, too. For the first time, many publications are running negative stories because Wintour is saluting the memory of late designer Karl Lagerfeld. Lagerfeld left a terrible legacy of meanness and bigotry. He’s the perfect honoree for people like Kim Kardashian but not so great for real celebrities like Blake Lively. She’s not coming.
Indeed, the Met Ball has been reduced to a level of celebrity lower than People magazine — forget Vogue. Co-host Penelope Cruz may be shocked to see who turns up– KPop stars, and so on. It’s not the Oscars.
And then there’s the cost: the Met Ball traditionally costs a fortune. So even if money is taken for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ball pulls the museum’s annual fundraising activities deep in the red.
