02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Evening Standard
Met Gala 2025: the secret rules explained, from being AWOK to the garlic ban
Thought that £50k would afford you the right to choose your own seat? Think again! In the 2016 documentary The First Monday in May, Sylvana Ward Durrett (director of special projects at Vogue) explains the Met Gala's official seating plan, saying: 'A lot of thought goes into who sits next to who, if they sat together last year, if they've sat next to each other at other events, so much goes into it, it's shocking.'
