![]() ![]() Valletta started modeling for the label when its eponymous founder was still alive, but she and Vaccarello, who debuted his first collection for Saint Laurent during the Spring 2017 season and with whom she planned to attend the Met Gala, also go way back: They met on set shooting a campaign for his own, now-on-hiatus namesake brand. Valletta’s dress, a black sequined mini by Anthony Vaccarello for Saint Laurent, lay on the bed alongside a couple of shopping bags bearing the brand’s logo. (On this particular night, a cluster of paparazzi had staked out the hotel’s front entrance waiting for Met Gala departures.) A makeup artist flitted around Valletta, still in her hotel robe at one point, Pat McGrath, who masterminded her look, dropped in for a brief consult. ![]() ![]() It was almost 4 p.m.-a scant hour before attendees were slated to arrive-and we sat in a third-floor suite of her scene-y hotel in Tribeca. “It wasn’t as intense as it is now-it wasn’t as big a deal.” So the parties all blend together at some point: “They were more just like a really nice night out,” Valletta said on the afternoon of the first Monday in May, shortly before the red carpet was unfurled down the steps of the Met. She’s been attending since the 90’s, when she was first flung into fashion’s orbit as one of the original supermodels-a time when the Met Gala, despite having hosted its first crop of philanthropists-about-town back in 1948, wasn’t quite the institution it is now. Amber Valletta can’t quite remember the first time she went to the Met Gala. ![]()
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