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What’s the 2024 Met Gala Theme? Explaining “The Garden of Time”
If there's a fixed astatine the Met Gala, it's Anna Wintour.
Chair of the yearly payment for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute since 1999, the quietly elegant beingness of the Vogue editor-in-chief and planetary editorial manager of Condé Nast tin ever beryllium counted on.
She's ne'er successful 1 of the flashiest outfits, leaving that to the much adventurous A-listers who people a coveted invitation to the exclusive event, but it does people 1 of the uncommon occasions wherever she sometimes leaves her signature sunglasses astatine location (or astatine least in her bag). But not conscionable yet tonight, it inactive being wide daylight erstwhile the enactment started aft all.
In keeping with the 2024 formal code, "The Garden of Time"—sprung from the Met's "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" exhibit—Wintour wore a achromatic formal with subtle floral detailing, her look not wholly unreminiscent of a retro wedding dress. (See each the looks blooming connected the 2024 Met Gala reddish carpet.)
The 74-year-old—who was besides sporting an impressively unsubtle diamond necklace—was joined successful her efforts this twelvemonth by co-chairs Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya and Bad Bunny, arsenic good arsenic honorary co-chairs Jonathan Anderson, the originative manager of Loewe (and costume decorator connected Zendaya's slick tennis drama Challengers), and TikTok CEO Shou Chew.
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"When Anna calls you, and asks you to co-host the Met Gala on with her—it's kinda the biggest nighttime successful fashion—and to rise wealth for the museum, it was a existent honor," Lopez, who volition beryllium attending for the 14th time, said successful a video posted to Vogue's Instagram successful April. "It's a bully happening to beryllium a portion of."
Zendaya, meanwhile, hasn't been a portion of it since 2019, but erstwhile again she's turned to longtime stylish Law Roach to assistance her make a capital-M Moment.
"I'm a small nervous, but it's exciting," the 27-year-old said on The Jennifer Hudson Show in April. As for being a Met Gala co-chair, she admittedly didn't "really know" what that meant. "It's similar a host, I suppose, so I conjecture welcoming radical successful and that benignant of thing. But it's an honor, obviously." (And she picked her Joan of Arc-inspired Atelier Versace look successful 2018 as her favorite Met Gala ensemble truthful far.)
But we don't deliberation she has to basal astatine the doorway the full clip and greet everybody. Roughly 400 radical were invited (way down from the aged days of 800) and ticket prices person accrued $25,000 from past twelvemonth to ringing successful astatine $75,000 apiece, portion tables begin astatine $350,000.
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The 2023 Met Gala raised astir $22 million, leaving the organizers envisioning an adjacent grander matter adjacent clip around—and knowing that TikTok, arsenic good arsenic their aged pal Instagram, had truly helped boost societal engagement among the Gen Z crowd enjoying the parade of looks from home.
"If you look backmost astatine the aboriginal days of the event, it was truly a nine event," Wintour biographer Amy Odell told TIME ahead of this year's gala. "Anna's innovation was to marque it a popular civilization event, similar the Super Bowl of red carpets, which is what it is today."
While she usually shows up, smiles and makes her mode up the stairs into the museum—sometimes solo and different times with girl Bee Carrozzini and lad Charlie Shaffer—she made uncharacteristically idiosyncratic headlines last twelvemonth erstwhile she attended connected the limb of English histrion Bill Nighy.
The satellite was acceptable to get excited for what looked to beryllium a debut, having seen photos of the brace retired and astir before, but it wasn't that kind of love, actually.
"Bill and Anna person simply been large friends for 2 decades," her rep said aft the event. "They are not successful a relationship."
But successful the meantime, Wintour remains firmly committed to the Met Gala.
And she started readying successful the fall, truthful marque it worthy her portion and support speechmaking to see each stunning look connected the 2024 Met Gala reddish carpet:
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Gwendoline Christie
In customized Maison Margiela.
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La La Anthony
In Alexander McQueen FW22 RTW.
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Anna Wintour
In customized Loewe.
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Ashley Graham
In Ludovic de Saint Sernin.
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Deborah Roberts
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Alexandra Michler Kopelman
In Emilia Wickstead SS18 RTW.
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Lisa Love
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Reece Feldman
In Thom Browne.
