The 2021 Met Gala, the annual fundraising profit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will happen on Monday, September 13.
This yr’s theme is “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.” The theme intends to pay homage to American trend: the place it has been, and the place it is going.
Andrew Bolton, the curator of The Met’s Costume Institute, advised Vogue, “I actually do consider that American id and trend is present process a renaissance. I feel younger designers, specifically, are on the vanguard of discussions about range and inclusion, in addition to sustainability and transparency, way more so than their European counterparts, possibly aside from the English designers.”
Tonight’s intimate gala is one a part of two. A bigger model of the occasion will happen on May 2, 2022. The theme of that occasion can be related, with a slight change: “In America, An Anthology of Fashion.”
What Does American Fashion Really Mean?
When requested to outline American trend, Bolton got here up with three phrases for Vogue: heterogeneity, range, and pluralism. Bolton is principally saying you can’t put American trend right into a field. It is many issues. It’s a melting pot of influences, just like the nation itself.
Editor-in-Chief of Vogue and Met Gala Chairwoman Ann Wintour advised CNN, “American trend is a celebration of exuberance, pleasure, and creativity. That hasn’t modified. What it has change into in 2021 is a patchwork, reflecting the world we’re all residing in, as seen via many alternative lenses.”
The clothes worn by Hollywood A-listers tonight will quickly be on show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Costume Institute’s “In America” exhibition can be open from September 18, 2021 to September 5, 2022. Part two of the exhibition will open in May 2022.
How to Watch the Met Gala
Although the precise gala is not going to be filmed, Vogue can be live-streaming the red-carpet arrivals on their Twitter page.
For these with cable, E! can even air pink carpet protection. The stars will start to reach at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Who Is Hosting This Year’s Met Gala?
This yr’s hosts are actor Timothée Chalamet (“Call Me By Your Name,” “Little Women), singer Billie Eilish, tennis professional Naomi Osaka, and inaugural poet Amanda Gorman.
All this yr’s hosts are 25 or youthful. In May, Chalamet posted an Instagram picture of the Metropolitan Museum of Art accompanied by pictures of his fellow hosts Eilish, Osaka, and Gorman.
What Was Last Year’s Theme?
The 2020 Met Gala was canceled attributable to Coronavirus. The theme was presupposed to be “About Time: Fashion and Duration.”
Although the gala was cancelled, The Costume Institute’s exhibition was nonetheless out there for viewing on the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibit was a timeline of girls’s trend going again 150 years to when the Met first opened.
Writer Virginia Woolf, and particularly the 1992 movie “Orlando” based mostly on Woolf’s novel of the identical title, impressed the theme.
“Fashion is indelibly linked to time. It not solely displays and represents the spirit of the instances, but it surely additionally adjustments and develops with the instances,” the Costume Institute’s curator Andrew Bolton advised The New York Times in 2020.
