Met Gala 2022, here’s what to expect from the most glamorous New York night

Almost a month to go until the new appointment with the Met Galaone of the most glamorous events in New York, staged at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On 2 May (traditionally the event is held on the first Monday of the month), the Costume Institute will present In America: an anthology of fashion, that is the second chapter dedicated to US fashion that will follow the exhibition opened in September last year In America: A Lexicon of Fashion.

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But what to expect from this new and awaited event? The 3 presidents do not change – the stylist Tom Fordthe head of Instagram Adam Mosseri And Anna Wintour – but there will be 4 new hosts. The actress and director Regina Kingthe actress Blake Lively together with her husband Ryan Reynolds and the actor and playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda.

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A bit of a break with last year’s younger formation – with Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilishthe tennis player Naomi Osaka and the poetess Amanda Gorman – but that promises to be just as jaw-dropping especially thanks to the evening’s theme as well dress code implicit for participants: the Gilded Glamor (as reported by the Fashion Director of the New York Times Vanessa Friedman)

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It will therefore be a dip in the past andgolden age American, a period of rapid industrialization and massive economic growth that took place in about three decades – from 1870 to 1900 – and which owes its name to the book written by Mark Twain And Charles Dudley Warner of 1873 The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Anthology of Fashion will open to the public from May 7 and aims to explore the fundamental foundations of American fashion, including individual designers who worked in the United States between the 19th century and the mid-late 20th century.

The prerequisites for a Met Gala full of fluffy and sophisticated clothes, capable of surprising, they are all there. We just have to wait a little longer to see what the guests have come up with one of the nights with the highest glamor rate in New York.

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Source: Vanity Fair

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