On the first Monday of May, Anna Wintour offered a rare apology. Although her annual Met Gala made money for the Costume Institute’s marquee exhibit, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” Wintour asked the guest list of influencers and billionaires to dress in accordance with the theme “Garden of Time.”
“When we came up with the title ‘Sleeping Beauties,’ it’s wonderful and poetic and romantic, but actually, it could be many, many things,” Wintour said on the Today show ahead of the gala. “I said, ‘What are we gonna say to people to wear to this night?’ And [Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton] said, ‘Well, what about ‘Garden of Time?'” Wintour shared. “So, I fear that we’ve unleashed a lot of confusion out there, and for which I deeply apologize. I imagine we’ll see a lot of flowers.”
