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The 2023 Met Gala raised almost $22 million, leaving the organizers envisioning an even grander affair next time around—and knowing that TikTok, as well as their old pal Instagram, had really helped boost social engagement among the Gen Z crowd enjoying the parade of looks from home.
“If you look back at the early days of the event, it was really a society event,” Wintour biographer Amy Odell told TIME ahead of this year’s gala. “Anna’s innovation was to make it a pop culture event, like the Super Bowl of red carpets, which is what it is today.”
While she usually shows up, smiles and makes her way up the stairs into the museum—sometimes solo and other times with daughter Bee Carrozzini and son Charlie Shaffer—she made uncharacteristically personal headlines last year when she attended on the arm of English actor Bill Nighy.
The world was ready to get excited for what looked to be a debut, having seen photos of the pair out and about before, but it wasn’t that kind of love, actually.
“Bill and Anna have simply been great friends for two decades,” her rep said after the event. “They are not in a relationship.”
But in the meantime, Wintour remains firmly committed to the Met Gala.
And she started planning in the fall, so make it worth her while and keep reading to see every stunning look on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet: