What is that this yr’s theme?

The 2024 Met Gala theme is ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Trend’ and an official gown code of ‘The Backyard of Time’, with the exhibition specializing in utilizing analysis, dialog, and expertise to copy the sensations of the museum’s main items.

What to anticipate?

Apart from luxurious outfits and a great deal of photographers attempting to get an unforgettable shot, count on plenty of bodyguards and fluffers. Yep, fluffers, aka folks operating round to make the clothes look picture-perfect. It takes a village, folks.

This yr, Zendaya and J Lo are two of the co-chairs – so we’re anticipating some fairly main appears.

Who chairs the occasion?

Apart from Anna Wintour, annually the occasion brings honorary chair members. The late Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace had been the primary designers chosen to co-chair the evening, in 1995.

Since then, amongst many designers and trend insiders, the gala has additionally made room for celebrities (and even royalty) to take part: Caroline Princess of Hanover was a chair of the 2005 Met Gala, Beyoncé was a chair member in 2013, and final yr noticed Penelope Cruz, Dua Lipa, Michaela Coel and Roger Federer co-chairing the occasion.

This yr will see Unhealthy Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya serving because the night’s co-chairs.

Can anybody get a ticket?

With out being an actress, mannequin, musician, Vogue editor, A-lister’s plus one, or rich sufficient to donate a whole lot of hundreds to the Met Museum and turn out to be a sponsor, it isn’t simple.

Tickets go for roughly £23,000, whereas tables value £211,000 – and that is earlier than you get your palms on a Met-worthy designer gown costing tens of hundreds of kilos. Anybody else assume watching it from the consolation of your individual couch with a takeaway all of the sudden appears extra interesting?

Oh, and also you super-rich lot getting your cheque books out may wish to maintain off, as a result of solely those that have Anna Wintour’s official seal of approval will be capable of really buy a ticket.

So what will we fancy, pizza? We’ll carry the fizz.

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