Vogue & The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute The Met Ball, as it has now become known, is one of the most spectacular events of its kind, tickets are highly sought after and the photographs that are taken of the attendees dressed according to their interpretation of the theme are devoured across print and the internet in the days that follow. This book offers a history of the party and the collaboration between the Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute and Vogue which was first held in 1948 and also a history of the department and the exhibitions that they have organised and held including the blockbuster Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty exhibition of 2011 which was attended by 661,509 visitors. Anna Wintour writes in the introduction to the book "Long before Vogue became involved with The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute. . . . I knew the singular place that the annual gala held in New York's social calendar. The book contains photographs beyond the red carpet