Gosh...it is a high profile (in my mind completely redundant) fashion event, so of course a lot of money has to be spent to showcase fashion-houses/designers/models/celebs/the Metropolitain Museum etc., etc.
Everybody is paying, especially for attending and getting prepared, for the luxury and fancy frills that give so much attention to this event, for the flight, the stay, the food, special photoshootings...whatever floats the boat.
I suppose that it is a kind of collaboration between the fashion houses/designers + the celebs + the MET where the fashion-houses ask for attending and name the model they want to send or vice-versa, a celeb asks a fashion-house to showcase them at the gala...and the MET gives the okay (or not) getting a hefty amount for attending.
For Alia, it was a good opportunity to get more international attention, likewise for Sabyasachi and the combination of Spring & Garden theme fits to her 'cuteness'...and I guess, KJo was eager to play 'matchmaker'.
It is a long ago prepared event (starting the moment the theme is announced). Making Alia's Sari evidently had been a time-consuming labour (for the wages one may have to ask those who did the work).
I grant Alia the attention she got but it's just one part of her profession - she has still to deliver as an actress in every movie...and I certainly don't envy her for her private life. Money and fame may be something to strive for but what really matters is something else.
Edited by Clochette - 4 months ago
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