{"id":427003,"date":"2026-05-05T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/427003\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:06:08","slug":"the-real-vips-at-the-2026-met-gala-the-train-handlers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/427003\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real VIPs at the 2026 Met Gala? The Train Handlers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are approximately 450 guests at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/tag\/event\/met-gala\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Met Gala<\/a> each year\u2014and almost as many people working behind the scenes. Included in that group? The handlers who escort all the night\u2019s starry attendees from the tunnel to the red carpet\u2014and are charged with straightening, carrying, and otherwise looking after the night\u2019s many, many trains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/blake-lively-2026-met-gala-archival-atelier-versace\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a>, the unofficial queen of the Met Gala, made a triumphant return to the carpet with a 13-foot train that required a team of four to help her exit her Sprinter van. Elsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/madonna-met-gala-2026\" class=\"text link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Madonna\u2019s Saint Laurent look came with a set of seven ladies in waiting<\/a> who trailed the singer from the car to the top of the Met steps.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, people like Cond\u00e9 Nast\u2019s SVP of Talent, Alison Ward Frank, and the team at Karla Otto were on standby at the entrance to the tunnel and under the tent for just this purpose: that is, to avoid any trainwrecks.<\/p>\n<p>Below, a roundup of our favorite behind-the-scenes fashion moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are approximately 450 guests at the Met Gala each year\u2014and almost as many people working behind the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,104252],"class_list":["post-427003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-met-gala-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}