Do young people still care about the Met Gala?
‘We’ve been planning this for months’: Despite the online discourse and calls for a boycott, some superfans were still willing to wait hours for a tiny glimpse of their fave through a blacked-out window

What is art without an audience? Yesterday afternoon, just a few hours before the Met Gala’s Costume Art-themed red carpet began, I wandered the streets of the Upper East Side with the hopes of running into the youngest and most dedicated fans camping outside. It only took me about three steps before running into about 50 of them behind a metal barricade. A few more steps, and someone asked me if I knew of an afterparty. So, as people online argue over whether the event ishellip;
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