Il Met Gala, noto anche come il Costume Institute Gala, è un evento annuale di raccolta fondi che si tiene presso il Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York City.

Ogni anno, il gala è incentrato su un tema specifico che ispira gli ospiti a indossare abiti e creazioni che si allineano a tale tema.

Ecco i temi del Met Gala negli anni

1973 – The World of Balenciaga
1973 – The 10s, the 20s, the 30s: Inventive Clothes: 1909–1939
1974 – Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design
1975 – American Women of Style
1976 – The Glory of Russian Costume
1977 – Vanity Fair: A Treasure Trove
1978 – Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes
1979 – Fashions of the Habsburg Era: Austria-Hungary
1980 – The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of China, the Chi’ng Dynasty
1981- The Eighteenth-Century Woman
1982 – La Belle Époque
1983 – Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design
1984 – Man and the Horse
1985 – Costumes of Royal India
1986 – Dance
1987 – A Tribute to Diana Vreeland
1988 – From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837–1877
1989 – The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789 –1815

Negli anni ’90 i temi del Met Gala:

1990 – Théâtre de la Mode – Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture
1992 – Fashion and History: A Dialogue
1993 – Diana Vreeland: Immoderate Style
1994 – Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western dress
1995 – Haute Couture
1996 – Christian Dior
1997 – Gianni Versace
1998 – Cubism and Fashion
1999 – Rock Style

I temi negli anni 2000

2001 – Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
2003 – Goddess: The Classical Mode
2004 – Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century
2005 – The House of Chanel
2006 – AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
2007 – Poiret: King of Fashion
2008 – Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
2009 – The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion
2010 – American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
2011 – Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
2012 – Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
2013 – Punk: Chaos to Couture
2014 – Charles James: Beyond Fashion
2015 – China: Through the Looking Glass
2016 – Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
2017 – Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
2018 – Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
2019 – Camp: Notes on Fashion
2020 (cancellato) – About Time: Fashion and Duration
2021- In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
2022 – In America: An Anthology of Fashion
2023 – Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty

Questi sono solo alcuni esempi dei temi del Met Gala degli ultimi anni. Ogni anno, il tema viene scelto in modo da ispirare la creatività e l’interpretazione dei partecipanti, dando vita a una delle serate più glamour e discusse nel mondo della moda e dell’intrattenimento.

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