Anna Wintour Met Gala Dresses

It's like she came home. For Monday night's Met Gala, Anna Wintour returned to the brand she's worn to the Costume Institute's annual party no fewer than six times over the past few years and enlisted Karl Lagerfeld to make a custom floral version of one of the gowns in his Spring 2013 Chanel Couture show. During Vogue.com's live stream of the event's red carpet, Wintour told William Norwich she chose the dress because Andrew Bolton — curator of the exhibit Punk: Chaos to Couture — told her, "Pink is the color of punk."

A look at that dress, plus all the gowns and ensembles she's worn to the Met Gala since she became Vogue's editor in chief in 1988, here in the gallery.