Anna Wintour is ­stepping down as Vogue ’s ­editor-in-chief, which supposedly marks the end of an era. Not the era of the puns on her name, for those are still with us, as unchanging as the shades-and-bob look she made famous: nuclear Wintour, Wintour of our discontent, something about The Devil wears Prada.

Although the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Gala fundraiser has been happening since 1948, it wasn’t until Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour took over in the 1990s that the fashion reached new heights. Us Weekly takes a look back at the most over-the-top Met Gala beauty looks to have ever graced the famed steps.