"Graham actually had been 'on hold' (a prelude to an invitation) for [the 2016 Met Gala] but ended up staying home. 'I couldn’t get a designer to dress me. You can’t just show up in jeans and a t-shirt,' [Ashley said]. She insists it’s just because she didn’t have the right designer relationships and there hadn’t been enough time to get a custom gown (at the time she was convinced it was because her husband made the faux pas of hugging Anna Wintour not long before the gala), but likely a factor was that Graham is well out of sample-size range. To dress her requires extra work — she can’t wear something lying around the showroom — and an exercise in imagination that not every designer wants to go on."
Ashley also revealed that her stylist still has to tweak a lot of the clothes that are fitted for her shape: "Graham tells me she now borrows everything she wears to fancy events, with the designers fully aware that her stylist will aggressively tear off sleeves, lower bust lines, and add slits to better suit her body."
