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Met Gala Photos: Stars Stun And Celebrate Nature On Fashion’s Biggest Night

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This year’s Met Gala, one of the biggest events in fashion, is underway with co-chairs Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Anna Wintour and more stunning in fashion aligned with the theme: “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”

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Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth co-chaired this year’s gala along with Zendaya, Lopez and Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue who has been leading the event since 1995.

The gala serves as an annual kick-off event for a new exhibit at the museum, and this year’s “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibit will feature 250 objects with “iconography related to nature” that span four centuries from the Institute's archive, according to the museum.

Key Background

The annual Met Gala is typically on the first Monday in May. The gala is always star-studded and draws buzz on social media as people rate celebrity looks of the evening and discuss who dressed to theme best. This year’s exhibit and celebrity guests worked with a gala theme that looked at how fashion and the natural world interact. The gala began in 1948 as a small fundraiser—though now it raises millions of dollars annually to keep the Costume Institute at the Met going.

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This year’s exhibit features what the museum called “sleeping beauties,” or garments that aren’t able to go on mannequins anymore “due to their extreme fragility.”

Further Reading

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