THE MEGA-INFLUENCE OF ANNA WINTOUR
ON THE EVENING OF MAY 2, ANNA WINTOUR WILL TAKE her place at the top of the carpeted steps leading into New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Wintour, now Condé Nast’s global chief content officer as well as the global editorial director of Vogue, has been hosting the Met Gala for nearly 30 years. She is always happy on this night—but it’s work. So every detail must be perfect.
Former Met Gala planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff describes Wintour as “militant” each year. “Where is everybody? It’s time,” Wintour says. “Can you tell me where they are?” The staff knows. Every guest has a prearranged arrival time, and Wintour’s people know what cars they’ll arrive in, if they’ve left the house, what they’ll be wearing, and if they’ve broken a zipper
