It's 930 in the morning. I am at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and tonight at this very spot

this museum will be full of celebrities attending the Met Gala.

I mean already at this early hour the museum is full of tents and cops and

cops and bystanders already lining the barricades staking out a good spot so they can see celebrities later and the

internet tonight will be plastered with pictures of very glamorous people

wearing all manner of outrageous outfits. But the thing that's really interesting to me is that people will not only be

commenting on designers and on celebrities, they'll also be talking about

stylists. There's this widespread acknowledgement that like, celebrities don't always dress themselves and you think this would be like a dirty secret

But you know Robert Downey Jr. even thanked his stylist in his Oscar speech. I'm going to thank my stylist in case no one else does.

Thanks, Erica, thank you very much.

And many stylists have become celebrities in their own right.

They give interviews, they offer styling tips,

many of them are like designing diffusion lines, and so I was wondering what was up with this?

Like where did all these celebrity stylists come from?

How did this become a job and how did this become so readily acceptable?

So I brought this question to one of my favorite podcasts called The Coda Ring and it's made by Slate and

host Willa Paskin and I dove in to try to figure out the answer. So I thought

I'd share it today in honor of the Met Gala. Okay, I'm going to go into the press preview now.

This is Decodering. I'm Willipaskin. Like a manager or an agent or a publicist, a stylist has become a kind of must-have accessory for well-dressed A-list celebrities.

It's just expected they'll have hired someone to select the clothes they'll wear

at all of their public appearances. But this was not always the case.

In today's episode, Avery Truffelman

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