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Met Gala 2024: Alia Bhatt in Sabyasachi saree; Co-chair Zendaya in Margiela.
MET GALA 2024 LIVE UPDATES: Attention all you fashionistas: It’s MET GALA time! Yes, the first Monday of May (early Tuesday in India) is here and this year’s green carpet was unveiled with early A-listers including party headliners Anna Wintour and Jennifer Lopez and Bollywood star Alia Bhatt as well. Businesswoman Isha Ambani was also included.…Read more
Wintour wore a black coat decorated with multicolored flowers in keeping with the theme “The Garden of Time”. Flowers were already everywhere. Lopez, one of the party co-chairs, was all va-va-voom as a silver goddess who draped herself like a second skin. She’s got the Met Gala: It’s her 14th.
It’s certainly a party, including cocktails and dinner for about 400 guests, but it’s also a big fundraiser for the Met’s Costume Institute, the only department of the museum that has to pay for itself. Last year, the event raised approximately $22 million. Anna Wintour, a Met trustee for whom part of the institute is renamed, organizes the whole shebang. No phones are allowed, which adds to the attraction.
Each year there is a dress code associated with the museum’s spring exhibition. Some guests, but not all, proceed at Wintour’s request. This year’s theme is inspired by JG Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same name. This is a squishy fashion question, considering how specific last year’s theme was: all things Karl Lagerfeld. This time, flowers and more flowers are expected. Vintage will also probably be big.
Being asked by Wintour to be a co-chair is a big deal. This year’s class includes Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth. This is Hemsworth’s first Met Gala, and he and Bad Bunny were among the early arrivals on Monday. Shaw Chew, chief executive officer of TikTok, and Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Loewe, are honorary chairpersons. Companies also sponsor festivals and exhibitions.
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