What is it really like inside the secretive Met Gala?published at 02:26 British Summer Time
Brandon Drenon
Live reporter
With only the red carpet stragglers left, most of the attendees of tonight’s Met Gala have now gone inside the museum to begin the main programme for the night.
Very few people, excluding the invitees, have been inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art during the gala – but I have.
I moved to New York City from Los Angeles in 2013, called to the city – like many others before me – in hopes of becoming a fashion model.
The modelling agency that represented me partnered with a catering company that hired models for its high-profile events, like the Met Gala.
I was part of a vast network of waiters, handing off bottles of booze and plates of food to one server, who would hand it to another server, who would gently put it on the table between chattering celebrities.
At the end of the night, one thing that struck me was that most of the food on the plates appeared untouched. The champagne bottles, however, were mostly empty.
