The Met Gala is nonsense - but the Costume Institute is FABULOUS

Plus the perfect revenge from Graydon Carter

Stormzy, owning the Met Gala.

I don’t have a lot to say about what people wore to the Met Gala in New York last night, because my professional experience is of writing about fashion – not fancy dress.

It’s an oddity and irony that the still-reigning queen of high fashion, Anna Wintour, has created the most high-profile global event dedicated to that subject, yet it has strayed so far from it.

I don’t mind that the outfits aren’t on-trend high fashion – what bothers me is that they’re just not elegant. Apart from Stormzy, up there, working it like the total prince he is.

But it’s all good because this year it raised $31 million for an institution that is properly concerned with fashion – the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum.

Founded in 1946, it achieved its full glory when another legendary Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, became a special consultant for it in 1972, putting on some of the greatest fashion exhibitions of all time and really inventing that genre as we know – and love…