What they do have in common, however? They’re all packed with the most famous faces in the world and their posses-resulting in the strictest of doors. Others are club basements with bottle service, house-music DJs, and bathroom stalls filled with multiple people taking way longer than they should. Some are places to sip champagne and eat caviar. Like a cottage industry around fashion’s biggest night, a number of late-night soirées pop up around New York City every first Monday in May-or, technically every first early Tuesday morning. By midnight, you have a whole lot of celebrity Cinderellas without a ball. (Can’t say I know from experience, but bedazzling yourself head-to-toe with said silver crystals seems like it takes a while.) But the big event itself? Most people are there for two to three hours, tops, before it ends.
Then, on the day, they spend the whole morning and afternoon getting ready for it. Celebrities spend months planning for it, scrutinizing their outfits down to every last button, embroidery detail-or, in the case of Lil Nas X, dazzling silver crystal.
