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Gird your loins!
The Met Gala 2026 taxable whitethorn person celebrated “Costume Art,” but 1 high-powered costume designer wasn’t impressed.
Legendary costumer Molly Rogers — who worked connected “Sex and nan City” and each its spinoffs, arsenic good arsenic connected some “The Devil Wears Prada” movies — said connected a sheet astatine Fashionphile‘s New York flagship Wednesday morning, spilling secrets from group and admonishing those who attended nan Jeff Bezos-sponsored ball.
“I would not person gone,” Rogers declared. “I americium disappointed successful group who did go. I cognize Meryl [Streep] did not go. I cognize others from our formed went, which is their prerogative.”
Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci each deed nan reddish carpet Monday nighttime — as did Streep’s character daughters, Grace Gummer and Louisa Jacobson.
“I deliberation nan existent artistry was nan feline who was protesting outside,” added Rogers, erstwhile asked astir nan night’s “Fashion Is Art” dress code.
Panel big Amy Odell clarified that Rogers was referring to Chris Smalls, nan Amazon Labor Union leader who was arrested successful a commotion during his protestation astatine nan bottommost of nan Met steps.
Rogers past skewered Bezos’s bride and her civilization reddish carpet gown, quipping: “How did she make Schiaparelli look truthful cheap?!”
Many Met regulars skipped this year’s ball, including Zendaya, Bella Hadid, Sarah Jessica Parker, Lady Gaga and Emily Ratajkowski. In April, a root told Page Six that New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani would not attend, because “it goes against everything he believes in.”
Streep has ne'er been to nan Met Gala, though she did look connected nan May screen of Vogue — which is typically reserved for 1 of nan event’s personage co-chairs — posing pinch Anna Wintour herself up of nan theatrical merchandise of “Devil Wears Prada 2.”
Page Six exclusively reported that Sánchez and Bezos paid astatine slightest $10 million to sponsor nan event, an magnitude that besides earned them nan titles of honorary co-chairs.
Beyoncé, Venus Williams and Nicole Kidman each served arsenic co-hosts alongside Wintour this year.
The museum’s 2026 manner use raised a grounds $42 million, up from past year’s record-breaking $31 million. All costs raised support nan Anna Wintour Costume Institute astatine nan Metropolitan Museum of Art.
