Every year, on the first Monday of May, A-list celebrities gather in New York for the Met Gala. The Met Gala is an annual event that raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute; first being held in 1948. Since then, it has grown and currently has an extremely large audience, making it an influential event every year.
Each year there is a unique theme serving as inspiration for the outfits worn by celebrities on the red carped. The theme for the exhibition was “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” but the theme for the dress code was “The Garden of Time”. The dress code is inspired by the short story “A Garden of Time” by J.G. Ballard. This story is tangled through with themes of nature, destruction, and the nature of time – all these themes are unarguably present within the outfits worn by the celebrities in attendance.
The Met Gala will occur again on May 5, 2025 and fashion fans are already awaiting the event. Every year promises to reveal new fashion achievements and an event which builds from a specific theme.