The Met Gala is coming back. Actually twice.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on Monday that the annual high-watt celebration of fashion and celebrity – which was canceled last year due to the pandemic – will return in person, first in September, then again in 2022 in its usual closing of the first Monday in May.
The galas, a “more intimate” version on September 13 this year and a larger one on May 2, 2022, will launch a two-part exhibition, a recording of American fashion that has been on view for almost a year .
“In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” which opens Sept. 18, will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the museum’s Costume Institute and explore a modern vocabulary of American fashion, “the museum said. Part two, “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” opens on May 5, 2022, in the museum’s popular American Wing rooms and explores American fashion, in collaboration with film directors, by presenting “narratives related to the complex and low history of those spaces. ‘Both parts close on September 5, 2022.
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Filmmaker Melina Matsoukas (“Queen & Slim”) was commissioned to create an open film to project in the galleries, with the content changing during the exhibition.
Lady Gaga is attending the Metropolitan Museum of Art Gala performance on May 6, 2019 in New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Monday that the annual high-watt celebration of fashion and celebrity – virtually held in 2020 due to the pandemic – will return in person, first in September, then again on the usual date on the first Monday. in May.
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There was no immediate word on who the famous hosts or chairs for the galas would be, traditionally a turbulent mix of bodies from fashion, music, film, TV, sports and other arenas. The first gala in September will be smaller and will be held according to the guidelines of the government’s coronavirus. The second next May is meant to be bigger, in line with previous galas that usually accommodate about 550 guests.
The gala is a major fundraiser and provides the Costume Institute with the primary source of funding. In 2020, the gala was canceled, but fans were invited to take on a challenge on social media to recreate the favorite look of the red carpet.
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“Fashion is a harbinger of cultural shifts and a record of the forces, beliefs and events that shape our lives,” Max Hollein, director of the Met, said in a statement. “This two-part exhibition will reflect on how fashion reflects the evolving ideas of identity in America and will explore a multitude of perspectives through presentations that speak with a powerful immediacy to some of the complexities of history.”
As always, the exhibits will be the work of curator Andrew Bolton. “In recent years, as a result of the pandemic, the connections with our homes have become more emotional, as have those of our clothing,” he said in his own statement. “For American fashion, this has meant an increasing emphasis on sentiment over practicality.”
He said that in line with this shift, Part 1 of the exhibition would “establish a modern vocabulary of American fashion based on the expressive characteristics of clothing, as well as deeper association with issues of equity, diversity and inclusion.”
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As for part two, it will “further explore the evolving language of American fashion through a series of collaborations with American film directors that will visualize the unfinished stories inherent in The Met’s timerooms.”
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In addition to Matsoukas, among others are fellow photographer Bradford Young, whose projects include ‘Selma’ and ‘When They See Us’. production designers Nathan Crowley and Shane Valentino; and Franklin Leonard, CEO of the film and founder of The Black List, a list of top unproduced screenplays.