Rob Shuter

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Yeah, so I broke a story this morning that the Met has not sold out.

It's the first year where they're actually discounting ticket prices.

So designers pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a table.

But really what they're doing is almost, I don't want to use the word blackmail, but they are buying Anna Wintour's attention.

They want to be in Vogue.

However, Vogue is not the magazine that it once was.

In fact, if you still read Vogue...

you'll see how thin it is.

A lot of those ads have disappeared.

And so why are designers paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a table to impress somebody who's no longer technically the editor-in-chief when they could spend that money on influencers, on different shows?

The media has changed so much over the last decade, over the last five years, over the last two years, that the reason the Met Ball was so successful was because of Vogue.

And if Vogue is no longer a success, that's going to play out at the Met Ball.

Also, too, let's add, it's not the ball that it used to be.

Now it is about reality stars.