The Camp of the Met Gala THE MARK HOTEL, 24-HOUR INSTAGRAM FEEDS, FANS SCREAMING..
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BY RACHEL VANCELET TE
ith live feeds and coverage running from Vogue online to the Mark Hotel special Instagram story feed, the Met Gala 2019 was an eyepopping event with over the top outfits and mind-altering couture pieces. Designers’ went to extremes for their celebrity clients, as viewers could see the creative thought behind the head to toe drama, which left everyone supercharged and excited to want more! Marked as the true fashion event of the season, and often called the super bowl of fashion, the First Monday in May, Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour hosted the celebrity-packed party for the Met Museum. Celebrating the Costume Institute’s new exhibition each year, the exhibition theme “Camp: Notes on Fashion” didn’t disappoint. Katie Perry shocked and won the night dressed as a literally a beautiful chandelier! To gain this glamorous and elite invite-only ticket to the Met, one needs to be in the inner circle of celebrity and power. Guests are invited by Anna Wintour herself, as she extends personal invites and every year ensures strict seating arrangements, carefully crafted like a dance with
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fabulous music and top entertainment on tap. The insider scoop for 2019, was to be sure seeing the “first red carpet event” of the evening, which was at the famous Mark Hotel. The hotel most recently known for Megan Markle’s baby shower, (the baby boy royal ironically arrived the same day as the Met Gala event), has always been known to host an array of celebrities for lunches, dinners and insider events from sightings of Woody Allen drinking a coffee at the restaurant, to the recent Royal shower and now the Metropolitan Museum Annual Costume Institute Gala. The Mark’s live Instagram feed was some of the best of the night’s red carpet, from the start of the evening with Anna Wintour stepping out in her glamorous jewel-encrusted gown and oversized feather cape to start the night off and the celebrities soon followed. Tracey Elis Ross wearing a golden picture frame around her head (Moschino dress) who stepped out boldly soon after Wintour. Then strangely a costumed figure of Smokey the Bear got into a rickshaw, ( we did not know who it was!) then came musician Gwen Stefani who was all smiles with hot designer friend Jeremy Scott on her arm. The list was the