Opulent to outrageous, elegant to extreme, Monday evening’s Met Gala crimson carpet guarantees to be equal elements star-studded and visually gorgeous. Then once more, with Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Dangerous Bunny and Chris Hemsworth because the night’s co-chairs, how might it not?
Fold in confirmed company that embody Nicole Kidman, Alexandra Daddario, Barry Keoghan, Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Elizabeth Debicki, Janelle Monáe, Jeremy Sturdy, Michelle Williams and Serena Williams, and the 2024 Met Gala might rank as among the many most thrilling and trendy in latest reminiscence.
This yr’s costume code, “The Backyard of Time,” takes its cue from the 1962 brief story of the identical title by J.G. Ballard, which dovetails properly with the most recent Metropolitan Museum of Artwork Costume Institute exhibition, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Style, which opens to the general public on Friday, Could 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 the whole lot in between — on the famed museum steps, which themselves are anticipated to mirror each a floral motif and sustainable parts.
Final yr’s Met Gala raised $22 million because the yr’s major fundraiser for the museum’s Costume Institute, often known as the Anna Wintour Costume Middle; 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 checklist.
With the latter in thoughts, right here’s a take a look at the evening’s arrivals; hold checking again as THR updates all through the night.