In the course of the 2024 Met Gala purple carpet, Vogue world editorial director Anna Wintour stunned style followers when she walked the purple carpet in a customized model of a Loewe fall-winter 2024 ensemble that consisted of a fitted long-sleeve white robe and a dramatic floral coat adored with flowers. The stunning half wasn’t that she selected a coat, however that it was black.

Wintour, 74, has famously shared a few of her cardinal fashion guidelines publicly, together with her ideas on sporting what’s arguably style’s most beloved—or at the least most relied-upon—shade. In a 2019 video for Vogue’s Go Ask Anna sequence, Wintour was requested how greatest to boost an all-black outfit. Her reply? “Don’t put on all black. It appears too gloomy as if one’s going to a funeral.”

The Met Gala is, clearly, the farthest factor from a funeral, so possibly Wintour had a change of coronary heart, or possibly one thing concerning the coat spoke to the occasion’s theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Vogue,” and its official gown code, The Backyard of Time.

The black Loewe coat was impressed by a cape designed by Charles Frederick Price, an English designer who based the Home of Price, one of many foremost style homes of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and is broadly thought-about to be the daddy of high fashion.

Along with Wintour, this yr’s movie star cochairs are multihyphenate Jennifer Lopez, actor Zendaya, musician Unhealthy Bunny, and actor Chris Hemsworth.

It ought to be famous that this isn’t the primary time Anna Wintour has doubled again on her viral style rule: She wore a classic black Chanel robe to the 2022 state dinner on the White Home that honored French president Emmanuel Macron. Granted, the 1983 long-sleeve gown was decked out with hooked up Chanel’s signature jewels, strands of pearls, and different adornments, however style followers have been fast to note the gown was, in essence, all black.