Anna Wintour Breaks Her Own ‘No Black’ Fashion Rule at 2024 Met Gala

In the course of the 2024 Met Gala purple carpet, Vogue international editorial director Anna Wintour shocked vogue followers when she walked the purple carpet in a customized model of a Loewe fall-winter 2024 ensemble that consisted of a fitted long-sleeve white robe and a dramatic floral coat adored with flowers. The shocking half wasn’t that she selected a coat, however that it was black.

Wintour, 74, has famously shared a few of her cardinal fashion guidelines publicly, together with her ideas on sporting what’s arguably vogue’s most beloved—or at the very least most relied-upon—shade. In a 2019 video for Vogue’s Go Ask Anna sequence, Wintour was requested how greatest to boost an all-black outfit. Her reply? “Don’t put on all black. It appears too gloomy as if one’s going to a funeral.”

The Met Gala is, clearly, the farthest factor from a funeral, so perhaps Wintour had a change of coronary heart, or perhaps one thing in regards to the coat spoke to the occasion’s theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Style,” and its official gown code, The Backyard of Time.

The black Loewe coat was impressed by a cape designed by Charles Frederick Value, an English clothier who based the Home of Value, one of many foremost vogue homes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is extensively thought-about to be the daddy of high fashion.

Along with Wintour, this 12 months’s superstar cochairs are multihyphenate Jennifer Lopez, actor Zendaya, musician Unhealthy Bunny, and actor Chris Hemsworth.

It needs to be famous that this isn’t the primary time Anna Wintour has doubled again on her viral vogue rule: She wore a classic black Chanel robe to the 2022 state dinner on the White Home that honored French president Emmanuel Macron. Granted, the 1983 long-sleeve gown was decked out with hooked up Chanel’s signature jewels, strands of pearls, and different adornments, however vogue followers have been fast to note the gown was, in essence, all black.