Goddesses on Parade: See What the Met Gala Appeared Like in 2003 – E! On-line

Please excuse us, we simply returned from 20 years in the past and wish a second to get our bearings.

So totally different and but so acquainted was the Met Gala assistance on April 28, 2003—which, although it was a coveted (and solely $3,500) ticket, was not fairly the everybody-who’s-anybody event it quickly turned, finally surpassing the Oscars as style’s greatest evening. The premiere of Conserving Up With the Kardashians was nonetheless 4 years away, 13-year-old Taylor Swift was furiously journaling in her childhood bed room and TikTok was simply the sound a clock makes.

However the occasion benefiting the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork’s Costume Institute was nonetheless a premiere vacation spot, a spot for the actresses of the second—Nicole! Kate! Charlize!—to flock with supermodels, designers, model legends, icons-to-be (Victoria Beckham, nonetheless discovering her post-Spice Women legs), and different titans of popular culture. Most of whom, by the best way, are nonetheless welcome on the occasion Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour presides over to this present day.