Opulent to outrageous, elegant to extreme, Monday evening’s Met Gala purple carpet guarantees to be equal components star-studded and visually gorgeous. Then once more, with Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth because the night’s co-chairs, how might it not?
Fold in confirmed company that embrace Nicole Kidman, Alexandra Daddario, Barry Keoghan, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Elizabeth Debicki, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Strong, Michelle Williams and Serena Williams, and the 2024 Met Gala might rank as among the many most thrilling and classy in latest reminiscence.
This yr’s gown code, “The Garden of Time,” takes its cue from the 1962 quick story of the identical identify by J.G. Ballard, which dovetails properly with the newest Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, which opens to the general public on Friday, May 10. The Andrew Bolton-curated present spotlights fragile items from the institute’s archives, all considered by means of a lens of nature.
With that in thoughts, fashion followers ought to anticipate to see quite a lot of interpretations — from floral to pastoral and every little thing in between — on the famed museum steps, which themselves are anticipated to replicate each a floral motif and sustainable components.
Last yr’s Met Gala raised $22 million because the yr’s main fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute, often known as the Anna Wintour Costume Center; the Condé Nast chief
content material officer and Vogue international editorial director famously oversees each element of the Met Gala, from approving the carpet’s design to the menu and visitor listing.
With the latter in thoughts, right here’s a take a look at the evening’s arrivals; preserve checking again as THR updates all through the night.