Anna Wintour wasn't always the star of the Met Gala. On the latest episode of , an iHeartPodcast presented by iHeartMedia and Air Mail, the 73-year-old editor-in-chief of recalled the first Met Gala she attended early on in her career.Per, the Met Gala began in 1948, but took a cultural shift when Diana Vreeland was put it charge.
It was during Vreeland's tenure that the event, which was then a cocktail hour followed by a dinner, became more celebrity-oriented.«I had been aware of The Met and the work that they did when I was first living in New York and was a Junior Editor at ,» Wintour said. «I remember going to The Met when I was there… and just being awed by what Mrs.
Vreeland had done. It just seemed it was the most glamourous evening I'd ever been at.» Glamourous as it was, Wintour wasn't able to attend the event in full. «I didn't go to the dinner.
I couldn't afford to go to the dinner,» she recalled. «I was just at the cocktails.»Vreeland led the Met Gala until her death in 1989.
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