Michael Kors, designer
I went with Jessica Simpson one year and she went to the ladies’ room and she seemed to be gone from the table for quite a while. So I got a little nervous and I was hoping she was okay. And I went to the ladies room, which always was the best party at the Met gala, especially during the early 2000s. And I opened the door, and it was basically a full party going on and I didn’t see her. She was in a stall because her zipper broke and she actually couldn’t close her dress. So we got a needle and thread and we sewed her back into the dress!
Winnie Harlow, model
My favorite Met story is me trying to use the bathroom the first year in that big white wedding dress. On your wedding day you have a whole team of bridesmaids who can help you with that stuff, but at the Met you’re by yourself. So I walked into the bathroom and there was Katy Perry, Cara Delevingne, and I think Joan Smalls, was in there. I was looking at myself in the mirror, kind of giving myself a pep talk in my head about how I was going to accomplish using the bathroom in my dress. As I started to stroll over to the stalls, Katy Perry looked over at me and she was like, “Do you need help? You’re going to need help.” So she came into the stall. We just left the door open, my dress was so big. She picked it up and helped place it over the toilet. Then Cara came over and said, “Oh my God, can I take a picture of this?” And I was like, “Yeah, sure. Why not?”
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Kimberly Chey, senior development officer for events at the Met
There have been several crashers who weren’t fully clothed. Those were kind of shocking moments, you know, be it topless, bottomless, or semi-bottomless. But the naked man in the box definitely takes the cake.
Elle Fanning, actress
The year I went with Thakoon, the “Manus x Machina” year, I had this really long ponytail. It was a massive thing of fake hair and I was whipping it around in your Vogue studio. It came off—my hair totally fell out and Alexa [Chung] was like, “I got this!” She pulled me aside, we went to the bathroom, and she was like a hair master. She absolutely knew how to do it and put it all back together right before we walked in—she saved me!
Rachna Shah, partner, managing director PR and digital at KCD
At her first Met gala, Celine Dion showed up and she was like, “Do I need to show ID? I don’t know if I have it in my pocket.” And we were kind of joking with her that, you know, obviously I think we can tell who you are by your voice. And so she actually started singing. I mean it was incredible! It was Celine Dion standing right in front of you singing!
Anna Wintour, Vogue global editorial director and chief content officer, Condé Nast
At the 2007 exhibition, “Poiret: King of Fashion,” the centerpiece of the installation in the Met’s Great Hall was a peacock cage. At one point, the lone peahen escaped the cage—keep in mind, it was suspended 20 feet above the museum’s marble floor—and flew all the way to Arms and Armor before she could be returned to the three peacocks that had been keeping her company. What a sight!
Eaddy Kiernan, Vogue contributor and former special events director
People have been incredibly resourceful in terms of how they’ve snuck in, and fortunately the security has gotten to the level of the Secret Service over the years. But we had one person, a gentleman who actually hid in the museum. He went into the men’s room the day of the Met gala during the press preview when the museum was open to the media earlier in the day. He stood on top of a toilet seat all day long and then snuck out at night when it was time for the gala—but security ultimately did find him and sent him on his way.
Sally Singer, former Vogue creative digital director
One year Jessica Simpson was there with John Mayer. She was wearing Roberto Cavalli and her breasts maybe fell out of her dress on the red carpet…and then at dinner it was suddenly like, whoa, Jessica Simpson’s breasts are across from me at the dinner table and they are on a platter and I’m looking at them. And John Mayer was putting his hands on them at the dinner table. He kind of reached down and I just remember thinking, Oh, celebrities, feel free to play here. That’s what’s going on.
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