By KARU F. DANIELS | kdaniels@nydailynews.com | New York Daily News

Anna Wintour has one regret ahead of tonight’s 2024 Met Gala.

The Vogue magazine chief, who has presided over the star-studded fashion fete since 1995, apologized for any “confusion” over the theme of this year’s event.

The exhibit’s theme is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” while the dress code is “The Garden of Time” — and Wintour admits that may have unintentionally opened the door for any and every kind of interpretation.

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“This exhibition broke my cardinal rule,” Wintour told the “Today” show on Monday. “When we came up with the title ‘Sleeping Beauties,’ it’s wonderful and poetic and romantic, but actually, it could be many, many things.”

She sought advisement from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute curator, Andrew Bolton, about the dress code.

“I said, ‘What are we gonna say to people to wear to this night?’ And he said, ‘Well, what about ‘Garden of Time?’” Wintour shared. “So, I fear that we’ve unleashed a lot of confusion out there, and for which I deeply apologize.”

The 74-year-old fashion doyenne added: “I imagine we’ll see a lot of flowers,” teasing she could “possibly” be seen wearing some.

Wintour has followed the Met Gala themes closely throughout the years.

Last year, she was draped in Chanel — a white skirt and a sparkly sequined pattern coat, which was finely in tune with the “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” exhibit that paid tribute to the late German designer, who died in 2019 at 85.