On Monday evening, Anna Wintour and Andrew Bolton, the curator of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sat down with former CNN journalist Alina Cho at the Met for the first in a series of such talks that Cho is doing with the museum, called "The Atelier with Alina Cho." The vibe onstage was remarkably laid-back and conversational, and Cho coaxed some pretty amazing tidbits out of Wintour, ranging from that controversial April Vogue Kimye cover, advice the EIC gives to new designers and her last day with Oscar de la Renta. 
 
 On that kontroversial Kimye kover: 
 
 "I see the role of Vogue to reflect what’s going on in the culture. The first celebrity that I put on the cover of Vogue was Madonna, and that was considered completely controversial at the time, too. It’s such a long time ago probably no one remembers, but she was a very controversial figure. Now she’s part of the establishment. I think if we just remain deeply tasteful and just put deeply tasteful people on the cover, it would be a rather boring magazine! Nobody would talk about us. It’s very important that people do talk about us. Going back to Estée Lauder’s decision to make Kendall Jenner the face of Estée Lauder. What a fantastic decision that was! They have a wonderful brand that’s very traditionally American, and they decided they want to shake it up and reach a different audience. Now and again one has to do things like that. I think it’s part of the excitement and part of being a journalist. I hope another Kim Kardashian comes along this year!" 
 
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 On her advice that new designers often ignore: 
 
 "In terms of what I tell young designers -- and I’m not sure any of them listen -- you need to remain focused, [and] find yourself a really good business partner. The other thing I urge them to do, and they certainly never listen to this, is it’s really worthwhile going to work for somebody else. So many of these young students come out of school and want to start their own businesses and that’s a slippery slope. It’s much better to go work for an existing designer and learn that way. But I think in today’s world where they think they can -- and [people] do become -- very famous overnight through social media, I think sometimes they are slightly misguided in thinking that they too can make a living that way." 
 
 On Oscar de la Renta's last words to her daughter, Bee Shaffer: 
 
 "He was so brave and so wonderful, joking with [Bee] about her love life... My daughter went over to kiss him goodbye and when we were driving off I said, 'What did Oscar say to you?' And she said, 'He said, 'Thank you for wearing my dress.' That’s the sort of man he was. To him the greatest pleasure was to see someone in his clothes. It was a joy for him. Life was a joy. He was the most extraordinary man. It’s unthinkable for me to think that he’s no longer with us. " ||||| This is high praise! After Kim K was shut out from the cover of ‘Vogue’ for years, she and her soon-to-be hubby will be the face of the April 2014 issue. Now find out from the infamous Editor-In-Chief herself why the mag finally decided to join the Kimye revolution. 
 
 It may have taken some pushing, but Vogue Editor-In-Chief Anna Wintour has finally come around on Kim Kardashian. After it was revealed on March 21 that Kim and Kanye West would be gracing the cover of the April Vogue, the infamous editor revealed why she felt the “world’s most talked about couple” deserved the honor. 
 
 
 
 Anna Wintour: Why I Put Kim Kardashian & Kanye West On ‘Vogue’ Cover 
 
 In her editor’s letter, Anna quickly debunked the theory that Kanye forced Vogue to put Kimmy on the cover. “He did nothing of the sort,” Anna writes. “The gossip might make better reading, but the simple fact of the matter is that it isn’t true.” 
 
 After describing the cover itself, which tastefully shows Kim in a wedding dress and Kanye holding her lovingly from behind, as “both charming and touching,” Anna then really lays on the praise for Kim and her husband-to-be. “There’s barely a strand of the modern media that the Kardashian Wests haven’t been able to master, and for good reason.” 
 
 She continues: “Kanye is an amazing performer and cultural provocateur, while Kim, through her strength of character, has created a place for herself in the glare of the world’s spotlight, and it takes real guts to do that.” Lastly, Anna writes that Vogue always looks to feature those who define culture at the given moment — the people who stir things up and influence the world — before joking, “I think we can all agree on the fact that that role is currently being played by Kim and Kanye to a T. (Or perhaps that should be to a K?)” 
 
 However, you might want to take all of this praise with a grain of salt, because a source tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively that “Anna would only do this if they were both on the cover. Kanye orchestrated the whole deal.” 
 
 Kim Kardashian Thrilled To Be On ‘Vogue’ 
 
 But don’t tell Kim that, because this might be the best day of her life. The reality star wasn’t afraid to let her excitement show when the big news was announced: 
 
 This is such a dream come true!!! Thank you @VogueMagazine for this cover! O M GGGGGG!!! I can’t even… http://t.co/CbD5ThUqor — Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) March 21, 2014 
 
 “Both Kim and Kanye are over the moon with how their Vogue cover looks,” a source also told HollywoodLife.com exclusively. “This is exactly the theme they want for their wedding — pure elegance.” 
 
 So HollywoodLifers, are you surprised Anna changed her tune? Do you agree with her? Let us know! 
 
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 More Kim Kardashian News:
– "I think if we just remain deeply tasteful and just put deeply tasteful people on the cover, it would be a rather boring magazine!" That was Vogue editor Anna Wintour's response ... to a question about putting Kim Kardashian and Kanye West on the magazine's cover. Or, as Fashionista puts it in its headline, "Anna Wintour Implies Kim and Kanye Are Not 'Tasteful.'" Of course, it could be argued she's "implying" the same thing about Madonna, since her answer started off: "I see the role of Vogue to reflect what’s going on in the culture. The first celebrity that I put on the cover of Vogue was Madonna, and that was considered completely controversial at the time, too." If Vogue were to be too tasteful, Wintour continued during her talk at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Monday night, "Nobody would talk about us. It's very important that people do talk about us. ... I hope another Kim Kardashian comes along this year!" (See how Kim's latest controversial magazine cover is contributing to divorce rumors.)