As Seth Meyers noted on Tuesday, longtime Vogue editor Anna Wintour does not look like the kind of person who should be wandering around the Madison Square Garden basement.
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The British fashion maven used the phrase to describe Kanye West’s recent show held at Madison Square Garden in NY.
Wintour revealed she arrived thirty minutes early to the show, leaving her to stick out like a well-dressed sore thumb as she waited for the Kardashian clan and Jay-Z to arrive.
“Eventually the Life Of Pablo concert started, and the “migrant chic” fashion show started, and [it] was wonderful, but after about 45 minutes I did notice that Jay Z had slid away, so I thought I could sneak out after him without anyone noticing”.
The twin forces behind the event are Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute, and Vogue editor and Condé Nast artistic director Anna Wintour. “I was lost in there for half an hour asking various people to take me out”.
Wintour said a security guard finally recognized her not for her fame but because he coached her son’s baseball team and escorted her to an exit. He said his shoot “Der Migrant” was meant to represent what he called the ambiguity of the migrant crisis by depicting “someone who is miserable but at the same time very attractive, and who despite the situation owns good-quality clothing and a smartphone”.
The Tribeca film festival kicked off its 15th year with an evening celebrating the meeting of glamor and art with a documentary about New York’s annual star-studded Met Gala.
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Wintour, 66, was recalling an anecdote about accidentally getting stuck inside a basement when she attended West’s show at Madison Square Garden in February.
