Met Gala 2024: The most daring, dazzling and outrageous red carpet looks – National | Globalnews.ca

It’s vogue’s largest evening, as Hollywood’s most sartorially savvy stars descend on the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for this yr’s Met Gala.

The theme of this yr’s annual fundraiser, “The Garden of Time,” is impressed by a brief story of the identical identify, written by J.G. Ballard in 1962. Fashion’s elite are applauding the theme, saying it’s large open to interpretation and that onlookers can count on loads of floral, AI-impressed and classic items.

The Met Gala, held yearly on the primary Monday in May, is a soirée to lift cash for the Costume Institute, the museum’s assortment of vogue objects. Each yr a unique theme honours a designer, fashion or look.

This yr’s museum exhibit, which the celebs will tour Monday night, is named Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. But we’re not speaking fairy tales or Disney princesses.

It consists of 250 gadgets from the Costume Institute’s everlasting assortment, together with some clothes very not often seen in public and so fragile they must be below glass. Curators wished to interact all of the senses, together with that of odor. They even labored with a “smell artist” — and there’s a garment that really grows. Part of the concept is to pay tribute to the pure world.

Aside from the red carpet, which attracts consideration worldwide, it’s an occasion shrouded in secrecy. Once invitees head inside, there are strict guidelines round cellphones and social media, which provides to the attract; the general public will get minimal glimpses of what actually transpires among the many A-listers who attend.

Anna Wintour, a Met trustee for whom a part of the institute has been renamed, organizes the entire shebang. And this yr she’s invited a notable checklist of co-chairs, together with Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth.

The actual enjoyable of the Met Gala, at the very least for non-attendees, is judging the style of all of Hollywood’s largest celebs. So, let’s just do that. Keep scrolling for a roundup of a number of the most enjoyable, elegant and outrageous looks of the evening.

Jennifer Lopez

Zendaya

Luciana Damon and Matt Damon

Emma Chamberlain

Anna Wintour

La La Anthony

Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky

Ayo Edebiri

Dan Levy

Gwendoline Christie

Bad Bunny

Mindy Kaling

Jessica Serfaty

Lily James and Erdem Moralıoğlu

Elizabeth Cordry

Jill Kargman

Ben Simmons

Maleah Joi Moon

Greta Gerwig

Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin

Gustav Magnar

Colman Domingo

Gayle King

Amy Fine Collins

Cole Escola

Lea Michele

Alex Sharp

Jamie Singer Soros and Robert Soros

Alton Mason

Sarah Jessica Parker

Josh O’Connor

Alison Oliver

Rebecca Hall

Sabrina Harrison

Madelyn Cline

Adrienne Adams

Ambika Mod

Dan Levy

Harrison Ghee

Jamie Dornan

Samantha Berry

Donald Glover

Tyla

Willy Chavarria and Marc Metrick

Jordan Roth

Emma Mackey, Zoe Saldana, Chemena Kamali, Sienna Miller and Greta Gerwig

— with information from The Associated Press

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