The co-chairs for this yr’s Met Gala have been introduced.
The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork revealed on Monday that Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Unhealthy Bunny and Chris Hemsworth will function the Costume Institute Profit occasion’s co-chairs. Honorary chairs are Loewe inventive director Jonathan Anderson and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.
This yr will mark Unhealthy Bunny’s third yr on the Met, whereas Hemsworth will attend his first Met as a co-host. Zendaya has attended the Met 5 occasions and Lopez is a 13-time attendee.
The celebrities, together with Vogue’s Anna Wintour will welcome friends to the museum for an exhibition entitled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Trend.”
Vogue described this yr’s “Backyard of Time” theme as one which has “nothing to do with the Brothers Grimm or Disney, however is relatively a celebration of clothes and vogue so fragile that it could’t ever be worn once more – and are subsequently sleeping beauties within the scrupulously maintained archives of The Costume Institute.”
“Per the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, we will count on to see a variety of vogue on show, relationship again so far as a Seventeenth-century Elizabethan-era English bodice, that embodies the great thing about the pure world – its fragility and its inevitable decay. Extra fashionable, much less delicate items imbued with the identical spirit because the spotlit fashions can be showcased alongside them, and damaged up into three sub-themes: Land, Sea and Sky.
Vogue additionally famous the costume code was impressed by a brief story of the identical identify written by JG Ballard in 1962. (Ballard’s The Empire of the Solar was tailored into a movie by Steven Spielberg.)
The Profit takes place yearly on the primary Monday in Could and marks the opening of The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition. To this point, the Profit has raised greater than $223.5 million for The Costume Institute beneath the management of Met Trustee Wintour.
The 2024 Met Gala will happen on Could 6.
Extra to come back.