Met Gala 2018: The Best, And Wildest, Fashions

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Celebrities pulled out all the stops to channel the fashion gods during this year's Met Gala on the Upper East Side.

In accordance with this year's theme — "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" — Catholic iconography such as halos, crosses and bejeweled crowns were a hit on the red carpet. But some celebrities took the theme even further, donning angel wings, pope hats and fashioned that evoked the underworld more than Heaven.

The star-studded gala is a giant fundraiser for the Costume Institute that draws some of the world's biggest celebrities and the uber-wealthy who want to be seen with them. Individual tickets for the event sell for $30,000 and a table goes for $275,000. The Costume Institute is the recipient of ticket proceeds, and is one of the museum's only self-funded curatorial departments, the New York Times reported.

Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, has served as the Met Gala's co-chair since 1995, according to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. This year she will be joined by co-chairs Rihanna, Donatella Versace and Amal Clooney, the Times reported. Blackstone founder Stephen A. Schwarzman and his wife Christine are honorary chairs and the first people to name-sponsor the event since 1997, according to the report.

Check out some of the best, and wildest, fashions from this year's Met Gala below:

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