Report: Anna Wintour Banned Kris Jenner & the Real Housewives of NYC from the MET Gala
May 13, 2013 by Hollywoodite
Turns out that Vogue editor Anna Wintour relenting to Kim Kardashian attending as someone’s plus one, after years of trying to buy her way in, is no indication of the MET Gala lowering the bar. According to reports, Wintour invited Kardashian to dine in her New York City home the night before the event. Only for Wintour to humiliate Kardashian by intentionally having her cropped out of the night’s best dressed list, leaving Kanye West posing with a disembodied hand.
For years now, there have been reports that Kardashian tried to buy or beg her way in, desperate to be seen as accepted. Mostly because Wintour is notoriously choosy about who she deems “famous” and whom she does not (another person who has been begging for attention for years from Wintour… former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham).
And a source for RadarOnline.com says the status quo has NOT changed; Nuclear Wintour, as she’s also known, still has contempt for anyone she deems to be beneath her.
“One Kardashian is enough!” That was the blunt edict Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour delivered after learning Kim Kardashian‘s momager, Kris Jenner, enquired about attending last week’s A-List Met Costume Institute Gala, RadarOnline.com has learned.
“Anna approves every star who enters and although she finally relented on Kim, she drew the line at Kris, who was desperate to attend,” a source said. “Anna wants a parade of stars at the gala, not a parade of reality stars!”
This is not the first time Wintour, 63, has nixed a member of the Kardashian clan attending the event: as RadarOnline.com previously revealed, she had banned the 32-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashians star from the 2012 event.
But tensions between the pair have soothed, thanks to Kardashian’s relationship with rapper West, who is a favorite of the magazine queen.
Wintour even invited the expectant couple over for dinner at her New York City home the night before the Gala and hand-picked Kardashian’s floral Givenchy dress that was widely criticized, prompting a side-by-side photo comparison of Kardashian and Robin Williams, the source said.
The insider also revealed the famed editrix rebuffed an approach by the The Real Housewives of New York stars Ramona Singer, Carole Radziwill, LuAnn de Lesseps, Heather Thomson, Sonja Morgan and Aviva Drescher, who wanted to buy a table at fashion’s biggest night.
“Anna would never, ever allow a group of Real Housewives to rub shoulders with fashion’s elite,” the source said. – via RadarOnline.