Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Kate Upton - P 2012
Sports IllustratedWho says celebrities get everything for free?
Kate Upton, recently anointed cover girl of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, paid for her ticket to the Met Costume Institute Gala in New York City, a source close to the model confirms to THR. She will attend Monday’s event with Michael Kors, and will sit at the designer’s table, wearing one of his gowns.
The price tag: $25,000, according to Page Six, which reports that Upton wrote Anna Wintour a check on the spot while meeting with the Vogue editor at the magazine’s offices.
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Wintour gets final word on the guest list at the annual gala — one of spring’s hottest and most-sought-after tickets — which helps fund the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. Monday’s event will pay tribute to Miuccia Prada and Elsa Schiaparelli and help launch the museum’s new exhibition, “Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations.”
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