The 2022 Met Gala promises to be a Star Studded Fashion Affair

Last week, Vogue announced that the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute’s annual star studded fashion mega event – it’s primary source of funding for the entire year – promises to be chock full of A-list celebrities, beginning with co-chairs Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Returning as honorary co-chairs: Anna Wintour (of course), Tom Ford and Instagram’s Adam Mosseri.

As Vogue reports, the 2022 theme and exhibition, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, is part two of the Met’s thoughtful homage to our country’s history. Part one, titled In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, opened in September last year due to the pandemic. Still on view at the Anna Wintour Costume Center, the exhibition includes pieces from American standard-bearers such as Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein. (The 2021 Met Gala was also held in September, but this year, both the exhibition and gala mark a return to their usual May calendar spots.) Later this month, more than half of the pieces in the Lexicon exhibition will be rotated out in order to include garments by designers not yet featured, as well as designers whose work appeared in the first rotation. These additions will reflect the vitality and diversity of contemporary American fashion.

After two years of upheaval due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year’s Gala will return to its rightful and traditional spot as “the” fashion event of Spring, to be held on the first Monday in May, in New York City.

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