Yahoo Lifestyle 47 Photos That Show What The Met Gala's Costume Exhibit Looks Like This Year, In Case You Forgot It Takes Place At A Literal Museum
The Met Gala is officially here! On the evening of May 6, aka the first Monday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute hosted its annual star-studded gala where Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth, and Bad Bunny served as co-chairs.
This year's exhibit is: Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. The exhibit features 250 items from the Institute's permanent collection with a focus on "nature and the emotional poetics of fashion," as curator of the exhibit Andrew Bolton said. As Vogue put it, there's also an emphasis on archival fashion "too fragile to be worn again."
As for the attendees who walk the well-known carpet, the dress code theme is "The Garden of Time," inspired by author J.G. Ballard's 1962 short story of the same name.
It's an exhibit you can visit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The exhibit opens on May 10 and runs through Sept. 2. So take a look at just a few of the many intricate and beautiful pieces on display in the museum's exhibit below:
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Hunger Games fans may recall Elizabeth Banks wore this Spring/Summer 2011 Alexander McQueen dress while playing Effie Trinket in Catching Fire.
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Natalie Portman wore a recreation of Dior's 1949 Junon dress, which is seen above on the far right, to the Cannes Film Festival last year.
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