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Deets: Hosted by Co-Chairs Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute Benefit, also known as The Met Gala™, takes place tonight in celebration of the exhibition In America: A Anthology of Fashion, Part One of a two-part exhibition, with this first part on view September 18, 2021, through September 5, 2022. The Met Gala for Part Two, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, will take place on Monday, May 2, 2022.

The Benefit is The Costume Institute’s main source of annual funding for exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and capital improvements. The 2020 Met Gala was canceled due to the pandemic.

Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, and Naomi Osaka served as co-chairs with honorary chairs Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri, and Anna Wintour. This is the 22nd year that Met Trustee Anna Wintour has co-chaired the event.

The exhibition and the benefit for The Costume Institute are made possible by Instagram. Additional support is provided by Condé Nast.

The guests attended an inaugural viewing of the exhibition in The Costume Institute’s Anna Wintour Costume Center galleries, and gather for cocktails in the Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court. Dinner was in The Temple of Dendur.

About the Exhibition
In America: A Lexicon of Fashion launches a two-part exploration of fashion in the United States and establishes a modern vocabulary of American fashion based on its expressive qualities.

Smaller and more compact than Part Two, this portion of the exhibition uses the organizing principle of a patchwork quilt. A signature quilt begun in 1856 from The Met’s American Wing collection opens the show and serves as a metaphor for the United States and its varied cultural identities.

Approximately 100 men’s and women’s ensembles by a diverse range of designers from the 1940s to the present are featured. Enclosed in scrimmed cases that represent three-dimensional “patches” of a quilt, they are organized into 12 sections that explore defining emotional qualities: Nostalgia, Belonging, Delight, Joy, Wonder, Affinity, Confidence, Strength, Desire, Assurance, Comfort, and Consciousness. Part Two, In America: An Anthology of Fashion—opening in the American Wing period rooms on May 5, 2022—will present sartorial narratives that relate to the complex and layered histories of those rooms.

Hint for the Average Socialite: The gala is strictly invite only. Stay tuned for details on the Exhibitions.

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