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Author Michael Gross suggested over the weekend that the Costume Institute Gala, hosted by Anna Wintour, represents the Vogue editor's attempt to compete with Graydon Carter's equally star-studded Vanity Fair Oscar bash every February. "Graydon and Anna are competing for the social crown. It's the social-status factor that defines those magazines," explained Gross. So did Graydon deign to stop off at last night's celeb-fest at the Met?

Of course not!

I went to Christie's where one of my sons works to see the Modernist pictures they're auctioning off this week and then had a quiet dinner with my family at the Waverly Inn.

Not mentioned, of course, was how he scurried home after dinner to look at pics of Madonna's horrifying get-up from the Met gala and the laugh he had when he compared them to the "remarkably youthful" pics of Madge from the Vanity Fair fête two months earlier.

No Met Gala? No Problem [Fashion Week Daily]
WINTOUR'S WONDERLAND [NYP]