The 11 wildest (or mildest) Met Gala looks from this year’s “costume art” extravaganza

The Met Gala hasn’t always been a capital-E Event. The invitation-only gala, which benefits The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, began in 1948 as a fundraiser that marked the Institute’s annual spring fashion exhibition and was attended primarily by high-society museum patrons. In the 1970s, the celebrity friendships and pop-culture savvy of former Vogue editor Diana Vreeland brought fashion-party glitz to the previously staid dinner; starting in 1995, Anna Wintour’s meticulously...