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Fashion’s biggest night is smizing toward the runway. The Met Gala is a stage for our most in-demand celebrities, TikTokers, and people willing to pay a million American dollars for a table at the combined fundraising event and launch of the Metropolitan Museum’s annual Fashion Institute exhibition. At galas past, we were blessed with a Versace-clad Chadwick Boseman dressed like a fly pope; Rihanna in a gilded headpiece and fur robe; and Zendaya in a literal dress of armor. As for moments completely unrelated to fashion, there was that time Timothée Chalamet was shooting his shot with Keke Palmer or when Frank Ocean’s plus-one was a little freak (a fluorescent-green baby doll with creepy eyes). Below, everything we know about this year’s Karl Lagerfeld–inspired and Kardashian-free event.
The late Karl Lagerfeld — who worked with major fashion houses throughout his storied career — will be the subject of this year’s event and corresponding Costume Institute exhibition, giving celebrity stylists yet another chance to scour the globe for the most off-theme, eyebrow-raising, or spooky archival looks — perhaps Kim Kardashian will find another dead person’s dress? Considering the acclaimed designer’s feelings about fashion in museums, the choice might have taken him by surprise in life and could even rattle him in death.
“Karl never tired of telling me that fashion did not belong in a museum,” Andrew Bolton, the Costume Institute’s Wendy Yu Curator in Charge, told Vogue in September. “When we worked on the Chanel show together, he was incredibly generous in what he lent, but he was completely disinterested in the exhibition itself! He would say, ‘Fashion is not art — fashion belongs on the street, on women’s bodies, on men’s…
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