Current:Home > InvestMet Gala announces 2024 theme and no, it's not Disney-related: Everything we know -VitalWealth Strategies
Met Gala announces 2024 theme and no, it's not Disney-related: Everything we know
View
Date:2025-04-12 17:45:15
Like clockwork, Mariah Carey is defrosting for Christmas and the Met Gala is unveiling its 2024 theme.
The Costume Institute Benefit, commonly known as Met Gala, revealed revealed Wednesday that the theme is "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion."
The fairytale event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art typically invites celebrity guests like Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Rihanna and A$AP Rocky, The Kardashian-Jenner family, Anne Hathaway, Jared Leto, Billy Porter and more to kick off the museum's spring 2024 exhibit. Yet to be announced: the celebrity hosts of the May 6 affair.
What is the 2024 Met Gala theme?
The "sleeping beauties" is not inspired by Disney princess, but rather treasured garments in the museum’s collection that are so fragile that they need to be housed in special glass "coffins" rather than on mannequins, curators said. Garments will be displayed in a series of galleries organized by themes of nature.
"Using the natural world as a uniting visual metaphor for the transience of fashion, the show will explore cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal, breathing new life into these storied objects through creative and immersive activations designed to convey the scents, sounds, textures, and motions of garments that can no longer directly interact with the body," the museum said in a statement.
Curator Andrew Bolton, who masterminds all the Met Gala exhibits, explained that the show includes both rare historical garments and corresponding contemporary fashions.
"When an item of clothing enters our collection, its status is changed irrevocably," Bolton said in the statement. "What was once a vital part of a person’s lived experience is now a motionless 'artwork' that can no longer be worn or heard, touched, or smelled. The exhibition endeavors to reanimate these artworks by re-awakening their sensory capacities."
When is the Met Gala 2024?
The Met Gala is the first Monday in May as is tradition. The exact date next year is May 6.
The exhibit will be open to the public from May 10 to Sept. 2, 2024.
Met Gala 2023 best dressed:See Rihanna, Dua Lipa, Janelle Monáe, more stars channel Karl Lagerfeld
About 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries will be on view. The exhibit will unfold in a series of rooms, each displaying a theme inspired by the natural world. "Within each space, historical fashions will be juxtaposed with their contemporary counterparts in an immersive environment intended to engage a visitor's sense of sight, smell, touch, and hearing," the museum stated.
Examples will include a space decorated with the "insectoid embroidery" of an Elizabethan bodice, or a ceiling projecting "a Hitchcockian swarm of black birds" surrounding a black tulle evening dress from before the outbreak of World War II.
Contributing: The Associated Press
Biggest Met Gala 2023 moments:Rihanna closes red carpet, Kim Kardashian honors Karl Lagerfeld
veryGood! (9)
Related
- Bodycam footage shows high
- Are you a better parent than your mom or dad? My son's question sent me into a spiral.
- Poland's parliament backs easing of abortion laws, among the strictest in Europe
- Keanu Reeves, girlfriend Alexandra Grant walk 2024 MOCA Gala red carpet: See the photos
- Olympic disqualification of gold medal hopeful exposes 'dark side' of women's wrestling
- Rep. McCaul says decision on Ukraine aid vote is a speaker determination
- Taylor Swift’s Coachella Look Reveals Sweet Nod to Travis Kelce
- FBI opens criminal investigation into Baltimore bridge collapse, AP source says
- The White House is cracking down on overdraft fees
- Detectives solve 1968 killing of World War II veteran who became milkman, Florida sheriff says
Ranking
- Paula Abdul settles lawsuit with former 'So You Think You Can Dance' co
- Full transcript of Face the Nation, April 14, 2024
- Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer's Love Story Will Truly Warm Your Blood
- Another suspect charged in 2023 quadruple homicide in northern Mississippi
- Your Wedding Guests Will Thank You if You Get Married at These All-Inclusive Resorts
- In historic first, gymnast Morgan Price becomes first HBCU athlete to win national collegiate title
- Peso Pluma addresses narcocorrido culture during Coachella set, pays homage to Mexican music artists
- Fashion isn’t just for the eyes: Upcoming Met Gala exhibit aims to be a multi-sensory experience
Recommendation
North Carolina justices rule for restaurants in COVID
It withstood hurricanes, lightning strikes and pests: 'This tree is a survivor'
It withstood hurricanes, lightning strikes and pests: 'This tree is a survivor'
ERNEST on new album and overcoming a heart attack at 19 to follow his country music dreams
NCAA hits former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh with suspension, show-cause for recruiting violations
Bayer Leverkusen wins first Bundesliga title, ending Bayern Munich’s 11-year reign
K-Pop singer Park Boram dead at 30, according to reports
2 law enforcement officers shot, killed in line of duty in Syracuse, New York: Police