Met Gala: what it’s like to attend fashion’s biggest night where ‘celebrities and designers outnumber regular people’
- Nichapat Suphap has attended the fundraiser for the Met’s Costume Institute twice – find out what it is like to go to the gala if you’re not a celebrity
- From Anna Wintour and Rihanna, to Katy Perry and Donatella Versace, the Met Gala is jam packed with the world’s biggest celebrities
As a young student on holiday in New York, she was planning to visit the museum, only to find that it was closed for a private event. Back then, pre-Instagram, fashion wasn’t the pervasive force it is now and Nichapat had to wait until the following day to find out that is was closed for the Met Gala.
Fast forward to 2018 and Nichapat, now a successful New York-based fashion entrepreneur, was able to attend the glamorous bash, fulfilling a long-held dream to get her hands on the most coveted invitation on the global social calendar.
Nichapat, who grew up in Bangkok and moved to New York in her early 20s, was not your typical fashion-obsessed teenager. “I was never really fascinated by fashion growing up. I thought that I would be a doctor or an engineer,” she says. “Fashion was never on the cards for me because I didn’t really like to dress up.”
While her sister loved to style Barbie dolls in different outfits, Nichapat would rather role-play a bank teller or a company manager, which she says was an early sign of her interest in the business side of fashion.