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AFP
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February 17, 2024
Showbiz stars Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya and Chris Hemsworth will co-host this year's Met Gala, one of the highlights of New York's social calendar, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced Thursday.
They will join Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour to host the May 6 gala, which will see the entertainment world's brightest stars parade through the museum in extravagant costumes and mark the opening of the annual exhibition at the Met Costume Institute.
The dress code for the evening will be “The Garden of Time”, which is inspired by the 1962 short story of the same name written by the English writer JG Ballard and is, in essence, about the ephemeral nature of beauty.
The theme parallels “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” an exhibition that will focus on the most fragile pieces in the Costume Institute's vast collection “visually united by nature-related iconography.”
It will be on public view from May 10 to September 2.
The Costume Institute relies on the Met Gala to fund its work, including exhibitions and acquisitions.
The gala was held for the first time in 1948 and for decades it was reserved for New York high society. Wintour, the high priestess of fashion, took over the show in the 1990s, transforming the party into a catwalk for the rich and famous.
It has also become a spectacle on social media: both the gala and the exhibition are co-sponsored by TikTok.
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