Met Gala 2024: theme, guests and how to watch

Met Gala 2024: theme, guests and how to watch

Met Gala 2024 details have been revealed for the event on the first Monday in May.

The Costume Institute has named the exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ticket prices start at $75,000, with tables starting at $350,000.

Theme:

Vogue reports that the extravaganza will celebrate the new exhibition and the dress code will be “The Garden of Time.”

Some 250 rare items from the Costume Institute’s collection will be featured, spanning over 400 years of fashion history, including the designs of Schiaparelli, Dior, and Givenchy.

Some fragile garments, such as Charles Frederick Worth’s ball gown from 1877, will be displayed using video animation, light projections and other methods of sensory stimulation.

Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator of the Costume Institute, mentioned that the exhibition will be organized around three main “zones”—Land, Sea and Sky—that pay homage to the natural world.

Who’s Going to the Met Gala?

Co-chairs of the 2024 gala are Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny, with honorary chair Mr. Anderson of Loewe and Shou Chew, chief executive of TikTok.

The guest list is a closely guarded secret, and this year, as in 2023, there are about 400 invitations, according to a spokesperson for the Costume Institute.

Rihanna has confirmed her presence, and it’s likely that Ben Affleck and Elsa Pataky will attend as their partners are co-chairing the event.

The presence of the Kardashians/Jenners at the Met Gala is noteworthy, with Kendall Jenner being a regular guest. She attended last year’s event but did not walk the carpet with her then-partner Bad Bunny, as they had split in December.

How to watch:

The respected fashion magazine announced that Gwendoline Christie, La La Anthony, Ashley Graham and special correspondent Emma Chamberlain will host a Vogue live stream event.

It will be broadcast live across Vogue’s digital platforms, including TikTok and YouTube. The red carpet live stream starts at 6 p.m. ET.

For the event, Anna Wintour has the final say on who does and doesn’t get invited to the event, which raised $22 million last year.