The Met Gala, the annual high-wattage celebration of both fashion and celebrity, is coming back – not once, but twice. The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that the event – cancelled last year because of the pandemic – will return in person, first in September, then again in 2022 in its usual slot of the first Monday in May.
The galas, a “more intimate” version on September 13 of this year and a larger one on May 2 2022, will launch a two-part exhibition, a survey of American fashion to be on view for almost a year.
In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, opening on September 18, will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the museum’s Costume Institute and “explore a modern vocabulary of American fashion”, the museum said.
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