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The dress code for fashion’s biggest night has been revealed — Fashion is Art.
The Met Gala — the over-the-top charity event turned fashion spectacle — returns on May 4 and this year’s theme reflects the spring exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, which this year is “Costume Art”. The theme was announced in November, but the dress code was just revealed.
According to Vogue, the theme perfectly encapsulates the ethos of Costume Art, which explores the “centrality of the dressed body” through depictions and interpretations of the human form in the Met’s extensive collection. That collection features nearly 400 objects and pairs clothes from the Costume Institute with paintings, sculptures and other works of art history. The publication says the dress code “encourages attendees to consider the many ways that designers use the body as their blank canvas”.
What we take this to mean is we’ll either be seeing some amazing clothes inspired by great artwork or some absolutely lazy designs with artwork plastered on barely-there shorts.
“What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body,” said Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute. “It’s the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was.”
The Met Gala is always hosted by Anna Wintour, the former head of Vogue US and Conde Nast’s current global chief content officer and editorial director at Vogue. In addition to the fashion maven, this year, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams will play host, as well as members of the Gala Host Committee — co-chaired by Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz. This includes Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson, Yseult, Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Mullins, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, and Chase Sui Wonders.
Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos will also serve as honorary chairs as lead sponsors for this year’s gala and exhibition.
Cover photo via Vogue