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Time of India
04-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
MET Gala 2025: You won't believe how much a ticket to fashion's biggest night costs
The MET Gala 2025: The MET Gala is always highly anticipated, the vent celebrates art, culture and fashion at its best. With many actors, filmmakers, businesspeople and other artists in attendance it is always a star studded event. The event is nothing short of luxury and is worked on for months before it happens. This brings us to the question, do you know about how much one ticket of the MET Gala costs? It's a whopping price that will leave your jaws dropped. Want to know more? Scroll down. MET Gala 2025 ticket price In 2025, a single ticket to the Met Gala will cost an astounding $75,000 (about Rs 63 lakh), and a table for 10 can cost up to $350,000 (roughly Rs 2.9 crore). Compared to prior years, when individual tickets cost about $50,000, this represents a substantial increase. Do celebrities pay for these tickets? As per Businessinsider, this cost is typically not borne by celebrities. Design houses, brands, or businesses typically buy tables, then decide who they want to invite to the table—a decision that needs Anna Wintour's approval. How is the seating arrangement planned? One of the main organizers of the MET Gala, Eaddy Kiernan of Vogue, disclosed that the seating arrangement is meticulously chosen over several months. The procedure starts in December and comes to a close near the event. 'We consider who would spark great conversations,' Kiernan shared. 'We love pairing people who may not know each other but have surprising common ground" said Eaddy as per NewsX. Meaningful conversations can result in high-stakes business negotiations or creative partnerships, so this intentional arrangement isn't simply for show. When is the MET Gala 2025? The MET Gala 2025 is on 5th May 2025 (6th May for India). The event will be streamed live on Vogue's social media channels.
Vogue Singapore
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue Singapore
What exactly goes into the Met Gala seating chart?
Every successful party planner knows the key to a good event is good company. Eaddy Kiernan, the woman tasked with organising Vogue 's Met Gala, takes that concept to a whole new level while masterminding the seating chart for the high-profile event that attracts hundreds of actors, singers, athletes, models, and society swans each year. 'We start with a seating document when the names come together in December,' Kiernan says. 'The actual seating chart doesn't come together until about a month before the event, when we get a sense for the layout of the room, and the flow of the evening.' At the Vogue office, Kiernan and her team spend the month of April constantly going over the specifics of the seating. Her objective? For guests to have fun—and perhaps to make fruitful, or even unexpected, connections in the process. 'We really try to think very carefully about who's sitting next to each other,' Kiernan says. 'Our ideal pairing would maybe be two people who we think will just get on like a house on fire, but who may not even realise that they have a lot in common. So with each person, we really do take time to think, 'What will they talk about?'' And that's just the start of it. Kiernan and her team also fastidiously deliberate where, exactly, tables are placed in the dining room. It's partially due to aesthetic reasons: the decor for the Met Gala changes every year, and therefore, the larger composition does too. Everyone needs to have a clear view of the stage, for example. And, well, perhaps not a clear view of their ex. 'We try and think a lot about sight lines and where people have sat in the past. And we try to make sure someone isn't staring into the eyes of a former flame,' Kiernan says. It's a task she approaches with the utmost planned precision. Perched on an easel in Kiernan's office is a massive foam-core board, affixed with individual velcro tabs. (The 'Lilah labels' as Kiernan calls them, which are named in honour of their inventor, Vogue 's own Lilah Ramzi, are 'virtually indestructible,' Kiernan says.) The guest list of the Met Gala changes each year, which means the Met Gala seating chart does too. Yet Kiernan keeps an archive of every one she's worked on, unintentionally creating a fascinating pop-culture archive in the process. 'There have been quite a few versions of the seating charts over the years,' Kiernan says laughing. 'It's fun for me to look back through them, to see who was invited, who was sitting next to whom, and to recall the collaborations that might have come out of that. They're almost little time capsules of what was going on each year.' This article was originally published on
