Anna Wintour breaks her own rules and apologizes for confusion surrounding the Met Gala dress code

Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue and organizer of the prestigious Met Gala in New York for decades, has apologized. The reason? She changed the event’s dress code, which may have confused invitees.

“This exhibition forced me to break a cardinal rule,” said Anna Wintour (74) in an interview with Today. “Then we got the title of the exhibition Sleeping beauties: reawakening fashion came up with, it sounded beautiful, poetic and romantic, but actually it could be many things.”

Wintour asked Andrew Bolton, costume institute-curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for advice on dress codes. “I said: What dress code are we going to communicate to the guests? and he replied: What do you think of Garden of time?” That’s what it ended up being. “We may have caused a lot of confusion with this, for which I would like to apologize deeply.” Normally the name of the exhibition is always the clothing guideline. That was in 2022 In America: an anthology of fashionwhile stars in 2018 had to get creative with Heavenly bodies: fashion and the catholic imagination.

Although Wintour usually sticks to her principles, she broke another self-made rule on the iconic first Monday in May. In 2019 she called for not wearing black. “It seems too gloomy and like you’re going to a funeral,” he said. Five years later she herself appears in a black coat with a bright floral print. Proof that she has buried her style rule. Even more striking and rare: Wintour, inseparable from her sunglasses, showed her eyes for the occasion.