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Also known as the Met Gala, the glittering event has been overseen and personally curated byVogueeditor-in-chiefAnna Wintoursince 1995.
After extensive negotiations, she agreed to collaborate on the production and even appear in several scenes.
The ball, thats Anna Wintours creation.
Anna wanted to see to it the aesthetics were up to her standards.
I presented her with the design.
She was impressed with and moved by that.
And she went, OK, this is up to what we do.
That was a bit of an afterthought.
I know that Annas a tennis freak and I know she and Roger Federer are friends.
Were shooting in the American Wing, the director recalls.
Were around John Singer Sargents and Eakinss paintings.
Its worth more than the budget of our film!
So there were a lot of really rigid protocols that were adhered to.
And the Met saw that we took that seriously and that we werent going to screw their place up.
Thats not CG, the director says.
Everything you see on the walls was what we saw: being surrounded by Versailles.
Getting Famous FacesBut whats a Met Ball without celebrities?
Thats a necessary part of the Met Ball, right?
These people have to be famous, says Ross.
That means your background is famous.
So we created a kind of party upstairs for them all.
We took the executive dining room and converted it into a kind of club where people could hang out.
A bunch of interesting people up there.
When they were not on camera, they were at a fun party meeting people.
We had to create an environment they wanted to be in, he continues.
We had a bar and food.
Then theyd go back to the party.
There are days on a movie when the movies bigger than any single one of us.
You absolutely felt that, the director says.
These women have all spent time getting into costume to play parts.
Then you go to the party and it looks just like the real Met Ball?
I think that had an effect on everybody.
It puts you in a different headspace.
