We now know the most highly guarded details of the 2024 Met Gala, to be held on the first Monday in May. The 2024 Costume Institute exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, titled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” will feature approximately 250 items drawn from the Costume Institute’s permanent collection, many of which have rarely been seen in public before. Ahead of the hotly anticipated event, Vogue is rounding up everything we know thus far.
Below, everything you need to know about the 2024 Met Gala, happening tonight.
When will the Met Gala 2024 take place?
The 2024 Met Gala will take place tonight, on Monday, May 6, in New York City at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It will celebrate the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
How can I watch (or rewatch) the Met Gala 2024?
The 2024 Met Gala Red Carpet is live! And, as in years past, you can live stream the Met Gala’s red carpet arrivals right here, on Vogue.com, as well as across our digital platforms. The Met Gala red carpet livestream will take place on Monday, May 6th starting at 6:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm PST.
Co-hosting the carpet in 2024? Actor Gwendoline Christie, producer and actor La La Anthony, and model Ashley Graham. Emma Chamberlain will also return as Vogue’s special correspondent to interview some of the biggest stars at the gala.
What is the Met Gala 2024 theme?
The 2024 Met Gala will celebrate the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” and the official dress code is “The Garden of Time.” The exhibit will feature approximately 250 rare items drawn from the Costume Institute’s permanent collection. Spanning over 400 years of fashion history, the pieces will include designs by Schiaparelli, Dior, Givenchy, and more. Some garments that are too fragile to ever be worn again—such as a Charles Frederick Worth ball gown from 1877—will also be displayed via video animation, light projection, AI, CGI, and other forms of sensory stimulation.
Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, added that the exhibition will be shaped around three main “zones”—Land, Sea, and Sky—that pay tribute to the natural world. “It is very much an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of fashion,” he said.
Who is hosting the Met Gala 2024?
The 2024 Met Gala hosts are Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, and Chris Hemsworth. They follow last year’s star studded group: Penélope Cruz, Michaela Coel, Roger Federer, Dua Lipa, and Vogue’s Anna Wintour. The latter has run the Met Gala since 1995, shaping it into the much-loved annual celebration of fashion we know today.
What is the dress code?
This year’s 2024 Met Gala dress code is “The Garden of Time.” Inspired by J.G. Ballard’s short story of the same title, written in 1962, it can be interpreted in a myriad of ways. Still, we’ll likely see many a floral and botanical looks grace the famed Met Gala red carpet.
Who are the 2024 Met Gala Best Dressed?
- TYLA:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This image was captured using a remote camera) (L-R) Tyla and Donald Glover attend The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
“Water” singer Tyla brought the sands of time with her to her first Met Gala, pairing her shimmering golden Balmain gown and sparkly body paint with an hourglass, a nod to the night’s theme, “The Garden of Time.”
- MINDY KAILING:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Mindy Kaling attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
The writer and comedian evoked sculpture with her beige gown by Indian designer Gaurav Gupta, accented with silver throughout. The back of the immaculately constructed dress resembles a large bloom.
Her look even has a name, she told Vogue livestream correspondent La La Anthony: “The Melting Flower of Time.”
- SARAH JESSICA PARKER:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Sarah Jessica Parker attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/MG24/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Met Gala mainstay SJP is known for her intricate headwear, and her petal-like fascinator tonight doesn’t disappoint. She’s wearing an ornate, structured beige gown from Richard Quinn that makes her look like a paper doll come to life. (Beige and earth tones are an unexpected trend tonight.)
- HARIS REED:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: (L-R) Demi Moore and Harris Reed attend The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)
Harris Reed and Demi Moore are bringing ethereal drama to the Met Gala with custom looks by the designer.
Moore’s entire costume is made of vintage archival wallpaper that, via 11,000 hours of silk embroidery, was repurposed into “this Victorian idea of basically blooming on the carpet, and covered in these, like, thorns,” Reed said in a Vogue livestream interview. It was inspired by the floral Cartier necklace Moore’s wearing, he added.
- KENDALL JENNER:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Kendall Jenner attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
Looking like a forest queen from a fantasy series, the supermodel is wearing archival Givenchy, made by Alexander McQueen during his time helming the atelier.
“I’m the first human to ever wear it,” she told La La Anthony. The dress was made in 1999 but was never modeled on a person, she said, so when she and her team found the dress and it fit, the look felt meant to be.
- BAD BUNNY:
2024 co-host Bad Bunny has hit the carpet in Maison Margiela Artisnal Collection by John Galliano. The suit features red racing stripes down the inside of the legs, and paired with standout accessories including a hat, sunglasses and leather gloves.
The rapper completed the look with a pair of Maison Margiela’s signature Tabi boots.
- DOJA CAT:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Doja Cat attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
Doja Cat is wearing a wet Vetements by Guram Gvasalia T-shirt dress and Euphoria-esque glitter tears at the Met Gala.
Before she arrived on the carpet, she posed for paparazzi photos in white towels wrapped around her head and torso — which some fans think is an homage to a photo of Lady Gaga taken backstage at the 2019 Oscars.
- LANA DEL REY:
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MAY 06: Lana Del Rey attends The 2024 Met Gala Celebrating “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 06, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue)
In custom Alexander McQueen, Lana del Rey is embodying a woodland queen aesthetic, apt for the theme’s roots in the natural world.
Think “sleeping beauty but slightly more sinister,” McQueen told reporters on the Met Gala carpet.
Brown branch details reach up her dress and crown her head, likely inspired by McQueen’s fall/winter 2006 “Widows of Culloden” collection.
- ZENDAYA:
Zendaya is back at the Met Gala for the first time in five years, and boy, was the Challengers star missed.
In her latest collaboration with stylist Law Roach, Zendaya’s gala look evokes a peacock, with shades of green, purple and blue. The gown is custom Maison Margiela Artisanal by John Galliano
- DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH:
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