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.

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.