This year’s Met Gala, one of the biggest events in fashion, is underway with co-chairs Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Anna Wintour and more stunning in fashion aligned with the theme: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
Co-chair Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky arrive at the 2024 Met Gala on Monday. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
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Key Takeaways
- Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth co-chaired this year’s gala along with Zendaya, Lopez and Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue who has been leading the event since 1995.
- The gala serves as an annual kick-off event for a new exhibit at the museum, and this year’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibit will feature 250 objects with “iconography related to nature” that span four centuries from the Institute’s archive, according to the museum.
Co-chair of the 2024 Met Gala Zendaya arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday to celebrate the theme “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
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Actress and co-chair of the Met Gala Jennifer Lopez arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday in New York. The Gala’s 2024 theme is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
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Emma Chamberlain, a social media star, arrives for the 2024 Met Gala, which fundraises for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
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Bad Bunny, another co-chair of this year’s event, attends the gala on Monday. Last year, a single ticket to the gala was about $50,000, though it’s been reported that designers sometimes purchase tickets for the celebrities they style. (Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic)
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Theater producer Jordan Roth arrives at the 2024 Met Gala dressed to theme of “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” Last year, the theme was “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” and in 2022 it was “In America: An Anthology of Fashion.”
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Lea Michele, who is expecting her second child, arrives at the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” Met Gala on Monday, showing off her baby bump.
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Fashion designer Willy Chavarria (L) and Saks executive Marc Metrick (R) arrive at the 2024 Met Gala in New York City.
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Key Background
The annual Met Gala is typically on the first Monday in May. The gala is always star-studded and draws buzz on social media as people rate celebrity looks of the evening and discuss who dressed to theme best.
This year’s exhibit and celebrity guests worked with a gala theme that looked at how fashion and the natural world interact.
The gala began in 1948 as a small fundraiser—though now it raises millions of dollars annually to keep the Costume Institute at the Met going.
Surprising Fact
This year’s exhibit features what the museum called “sleeping beauties,” or garments that aren’t able to go on mannequins anymore “due to their extreme fragility.”
