Key Points
Eleanor Lambert, the publicist and "godmother of fashion", launched the Met Gala 75 years ago in 1948 as a fundraiser for the new Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, John Tiffany, her former mentee and biographer, tells BBC Culture..
"The Met Gala is likely to be Anna Wintour's biggest career achievement," Amy Odell, fashion journalist and best-selling author of Anna: The Biography, tells BBC Culture..
For Chinese couturier Guo Pei, who had been designing couture for more than 30 years by the time Rihanna wore this yolk-yellow dress, having her work dubbed the "omelette dress", and heavily memed, was an unexpected way to become internet-famous around the globe..
This was also the year that Lady Gaga chewed through four outfits by Brandon Maxwell on the red carpet, bringing Wintour out from the entrance inside the museum, where she greets guests, to watch it the first time, according to Odell, that she watched a red-carpet entrance..
Not one to ignore a brief, Gossip Girl actor Blake Lively wore a Versace dress that was an ode to New York City in that age, changing colour from turquoise to copper midway up the red carpet in a transformation that was intended to represent the oxidisation of the Statue of Liberty..
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