The showing opens on May 10 .
TheMet Galais officially here! On the evening of May 6, aka the first Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute hosted its annual star-studded gala whereJennifer Lopez,Zendaya,Chris Hemsworth, andBad Bunnyserved as co-chairs.
This year’s exhibit is:Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. The exhibit features 250 items from the Institute’s permanent collection with a focus on “nature and the emotional poetics of fashion,” as curator of the exhibitAndrew Bolton said.AsVogueput it, there’s also an emphasis on archival fashion “too fragile to be worn again.”
As for the meeter who walk the well - known carpet , the dress code composition is " The Garden of Time,“inspired by author J.G. Ballard ’s 1962 shortsighted narration of the same name .