Wednesday 29 April 2020

The Met Gala 2020

So due to the current situation The Met Gala 2020 will not be going ahead on the first Monday of May.  So I thought I would look at some of the fantastic outfits we have seen at the Met Gala in the past and what them theme was for the 2020 gala.

The Met Gala is a fundraiser for the Met Museum it raises money for the museum and all of its exhibitions.  I have been to this museum and it is sensational a must see and do if you ever go to New York.


The Met Gala 2020 theme is "About Time: Fashion Duration", and is partly inspired by Virginia Woolf and the theories of the French philosopher Henri Bergson.


The curator in charge of the Costume Institute of the Met- Andrew Bolton - spoke about the theme to The New York Times: " Fashion is indelibly connected to time.  It not only reflects and represents the spirit of the times, but it also changes and develops with the times".


The theme for the 2019 red carpet was "Camp: Notes on Fashion", inspired by Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'".




In 2018, Catholicism ruled the celebrity runway thanks to the theme of "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
To me the Met Gala is a celebration of fashion and how it is influenced by culture and society. 

See you next week stay safe.