The countdown begins for one of the most anticipated and special nights in pop culture. He Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has everything ready to host the new edition of the MET Gala 2024of which some details are already known, such as the guests who will attend the event, the presenters, the theme and some other curiosity about this acclaimed ceremony.
As tradition indicates, the event takes place in the first month of May, so hundreds of well-known faces from the fashion, music and entertainment industry They have Monday the 6th of this month on their calendar. For such an important occasion, attendees usually take out their best clothes. looks with the idea of wasting glamor in its path, yes, taking into account the dress code of the ceremony.
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This 2024, the name of the exhibition is Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashionwhich in Spanish means Sleeping beauties: the awakening of fashion. The idea behind this exhibition, inspired by the story of J. G. Ballard called The garden of time (1962) and organized by Anna Wintour, is to pay tribute to nature and address sustainability through fashion. Thus, the exhibition presents a series of pieces in which elements such as flowers or butterflies are present and connected by the metaphor of ephemeral fashion.
Taking into account this themeit is very likely that the guests will wear striking outfits on the red carpet, giving rise to different reinterpretations of the concept of nature. In this way, some of the elements that, without a doubt, will be present in this ceremony will be the flowers, crystals, glitter and botanical prints.
Zendaya, Jennifer LopezChris Hermsworth and Bad Bunny will be the hosts star of the MET Gala 2024. Honorary co-chairs include Jonathan Anderson, creative director of Loeweand Shou Zi Chew, CEO of TikTok. On the other hand, although the list of 600 guests is not made public, those who will not miss the appointment will be Rihanna, Beyoncé or Anne Hathawaysince they are faces that usually attend this event year after year.
He Origin of the MET Gala dates back to 1948when publicist Eleanor Lambert organized the first charity event in favor of the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Almost eight decades have passed since then, specifically 76 years, and this meeting is still one of the most anticipated by celebrities year after year. This 2024, the ceremony has broken one of its rules and has encouraged its male guests to reinvent themselves and leave behind the classic dress code that the gala forced them to adhere to and which was centered on black suits and tuxedos.
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As usual, the exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashionsponsored by Loewe and TikTok, It will be open to the public from May 10 to September 2. As if that were not enough, one of the most innovative elements of this exhibition is technology, because thanks to it a immersive experience, divided into three zones: land, sea and sky. In this way, along with the clothes, you can enjoy different projections, music and even recreations of smells that will help create a more precise context of the fashion on display, which ranges from 17th century bodices to exquisite dresses, even delicate headdresses.
The MET Gala 2024 will be broadcast across all editions of Vogue of its channels in Youtube and also through the website of the Spanish edition of the magazine. Around 00:00 hours (6:00 p.m. in New York) This Monday night the red carpet will begin, where you can see the famous and traditional staircase of the First Monday in May (first Monday in May), a catwalk in which celebrities will dazzle everyone present with their looks.
Those in charge of the broadcast will be the actress Gwendoline Christiepopularly known for her role in Game of Thrones, the producer and actress La La Anthonythe model Ashley Graham and the influencer Emma Chamberlainwho will be on the red carpet and will be in charge of interviewing the personalities attending the event.
