This year’s theme celebrates an exhibit showcasing 40 pieces on loan from the Vatican as well as designs from Coco Chanel, John Galliano and Cristóbal Balenciaga that spotlight the influence religious iconography has on fashion. The event is hosted by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintor, as well as this year’s special co-hosts Amal Clooney , Rihanna and Donatella Versace . Catholicism has been an important factor of Madonna’s personal brand (she was raised Catholic but later became a devotee of Kabbalah), which has caused plenty of controversy for her in the past. T his year’s Met Gala was decades in the making for Madonna. As soon as the 2018 theme — “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” — was announced, the fashion world was on the edge of its seat waiting to see what outrageous look Madonna, 59, would wear. And true to her daring self, the superstar went all out. After all, she was born for this red carpet....