I think this long-running event has recently taken second fiddle to the Academy Museum gala. The Academy Museum is literally next door to LACMA and the Los Angeles County Art Museum has been (to my mind, unforgivably) gutted in an incredibly lengthy renovation project, and the whole thing has marked with controversy, whereas celebs always want to suck up to the Oscars folks. (The new museum buildings are allegedly meant to re-open this year.) But Anna Wintour attended, so perhaps some of her Met magic will reach the West coast. We still have a variety of celebrities in formalwear to eyeball, a blessing on a stressful Monday. Let’s start with the folks who went classic in black and white.
