Habemus theme! The theme of the has finally been revealed in these hours Met Gala 2024 editionor rather the most glamorous event – without fear of being contradicted – on the East Coast, that is, the opening evening of the flagship spring exhibition of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashionthat is to say Sleeping Beauties: the awakening of fashion: it will be on this rather cryptic and mysterious false track that the stars of Hollywood, and not only, will battle it out with surprising outfits the first Monday in May (as per tradition), i.e. day 6.
The exhibition will include approx 250 pieces from the permanent collection of the Costume Institute, many of which have rarely been previously exhibited to the public, and promises to be quite innovative, even in its staging. The intent of this particular exhibition will be to reveal it to the public – he said Andrew Boltonchief curator of the Anna Wintour Costume Center at the Met – approximately 50 pieces of great historical value and incomparable beautybut so fragile and delicate so much can never be worn again: this is what the sleeping beauties of the title refer to. Precious pieces which will therefore be exhibited in new and surprising ways, and which will dialogue with modern and contemporary creations of today’s great couturiers and designers.
The Met Gala, intended as a super social event that accompanies the vernissage of the Museum exhibition, was born way back in 1948 as the Costume Institute Gala, a “simple” dinner to raise funds for the Costume Institute, and has maintained the same purpose ever since charity. To turn it into a big party is Diana Vreelandin 1973, but the real turning point came with Anna Wintour, in 1995, capable of making the event not only highly coveted, but also truly media-relevant. She still today she is the director of Voguebut also president of the event and his deus ex machinato decide not only the theme of the exhibition, but above all who to invite (and, consequently, who not).
Yes, because it is precisely from the theme chosen each year that, increasingly over the years, and in an increasingly astonishing way, the dress code of the invited guests was conditioned. Until leading to the incredible and memorable outfits of recent years (which you can find by clicking the links below).
1973: The World of Balenciaga
1974: Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design
1975: American Women of Style
1976: The Glory of Russian Costume
1977: Vanity Fair: A Treasure Trove
1978: Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes
1979: Fashions of the Habsburg Era: Austria-Hungary
1980: The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of China, the Chi’ng Dynasty
1981: The Eighteenth Century Woman
1982: The Belle Époque
1983: Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design
1984: Man and the Horse
1985: Costumes of Royal India
1986: Dance
1987: In Style: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Costume Institute
1988: From Queen to Empress: Victoria Dress 1837-1877
1989: The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815
1990: Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture
1991: No specific theme
1992: Fashion and History: A Dialogue
1993: Diana Vreeland: Immoderate Style
1994: Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress
1995: Haute Couture
1996: Christian Dior
1997: Gianni Versace
1998: Cubism and Fashion
1999: Rock Style
2001: Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
2003: Goddess: The Classical Mode
2004: Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century
2005: The House of Chanel
2006: AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
2007: Poiret: King of Fashion
2008: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
2009: The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion
2010: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
2011: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
2012: Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
2013: Punk: Chaos to Couture
2014: Charles James: Beyond Fashion
2015: China: Through the Looking Glass
2016: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
2017: Comme des Garçons’s Rei Kawakubo
2018: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
2019: Camp: Notes on Fashion
2020: About Time: Fashion and Duration
2021: In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
2022: America: An Anthology of Fashion
2023: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
For us, mere mortals, the exhibition will be open to visitors from 10 May to 2 September 2024.
Source: Vanity Fair
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