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“This exhibition broke my cardinal rule,” Wintour told the Today Show’s Jenna Bush Hager during an interview published on Monday at the 1:29 mark. “When we came up with the title Sleeping Beauties—it’s wonderful and poetic and romantic. But it actually could be many, many things.”
The fashion icon was able to count on Andrew Bolton, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute curator, to consult on what people should wear.
“I said, ‘What are we going to say to people to wear to this night?’ And he said, ‘Well, what about ‘Garden of Time?’” Wintour said. “So I fear that we have unleashed a lot of confusion out there. And for which I deeply apologize, I imagine we’ll see a lot of flowers, a lot of flowers.”
“The idea of sleeping beauties is taking these masterpieces from different periods and because so many of them are very fragile, they are laid flat behind glass walls,” Wintour added.
The editor-in-chief also mentioned she helped Serena Williams pick out her 2019 Met Gala outfit where she infamously wore a yellow Atelier Versace dress with a pair of highlighter green Nike x Off-White Air Force One sneakers, according to British Vogue.
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