Showbiz greats Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya and Chris Hemsworth are co-hosting this year’s Met Gala, one of the highlights of New York’s social calendar, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Thursday.
Together with US Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, they will host the gala on May 6th, where entertainment’s biggest stars will parade through the museum in extravagant outfits and the annual exhibition will open in the museum’s Costume Institute.
The evening’s dress code is “The Garden of Time” – inspired by the English writer JG Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same name, which is essentially about the transience of beauty.
The theme parallels the exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” an exhibition that focuses on the most fragile pieces from the Costume Institute’s extensive collection that are “visually connected by a nature-based iconography.” The exhibition will be on view from May 10th to September 2nd.
The Costume Institute relies on the Met Gala to fund its work, including exhibitions and purchases. The gala was first held in 1948 and was reserved for New York’s upper class for decades. Wintour, the high priestess of fashion, took over the event in the 1990s and turned the party into a catwalk for the rich and famous.
It has also become a social media spectacle – both the gala and the exhibition are sponsored by TikTok. (AFP)