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What does Met’s U-turn on John Galliano augur for him, the gala and Anna Wintour?

theguardian.com · 9dShare

NYC’s elite figures, led by Julie Menin, made Wintour blink, and the designer who in 2011 had gone on a drunken antisemitic rant, bowed out of industry’s biggest event Did Anna Wintour, Vogue’s long-serving fashion titan and ringmaster of the annual Met Gala, meet her match in Julie Menin, the speaker of New York’s city council? The museum is the crown jewel of the wealthy neighborhood and some residents hold significant sway at the institution, financially and in terms of the art they plan to bequeath to it. So when it was announced late in July on a Friday afternoon that Galliano would be the focus of the Met Gala next year, it left many stunned. Continue reading...

First report: I spent a decade working with Anna Wintour on the Met Gala — the John Galliano fiasco makes us ask what legacies are honored — nypost.com, 9d