New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced that the highly-anticipated Met Gala will be returning in 2021 after it was cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. To make up for the lost season, the Met Gala will throw 2 separate events – one in September 2020 and the other in May 2022.
The 2021 Met Gala events are fundraisers and will explore the following themes: “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” on September 18 and “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” on May 5 2022.
Andrew Bolton – a curator at Costume Institute – revealed his thoughts on the selected themes and why they are important and relevant within the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic landscape:
“Over the past year, because of the pandemic, the connections to our homes have become more emotional, as have those to our clothes. For American fashion, this has meant an increased emphasis on sentiment over practicality. Responding to this shift, Part One of the exhibition will establish a modern vocabulary of American fashion based on the expressive qualities of clothing as well as deeper associations with issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Part Two will further investigate the evolving language of American fashion through a series of collaborations with American film directors who will visualize the unfinished stories inherent in The Met’s period rooms”.
While we’re all excited to see the stunning outfits that will be grace the red carpet in late 2021 and in mid 2022, let’s take a look at some of the social media influencers who have walked the annual Met Gala event:
CHIARA FERRAGNI
CAMILA COELHO
LILLY SINGH
JAMES CHARLES
LIZA KOSHY