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☆ Quannah Chasinghorse says she's 'come so far' from her first Met Gala, where she felt like she didn't belong
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Quannah Chasinghorse attended the 2024 Met Gala on Monday. Chasinghorse told Nylon she has become a "safe space" for first-time Met Gala attendees. AdvertisementThe 2024 Met Gala took place on Monday. Like, really, really lonely." AdvertisementLily Gladstone and Quannah Chasinghorse at the 2024 Met Gala.

Persons: Quannah Chasinghorse, Hannah Dixon, Chasinghorse, —, Tyla's, Mona Patel's, Ann, Sofie Johansson, Taylor Hill, Heather Dixon, Lily Gladstone, Arturo Holmes Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art Locations: New York, Alaska

☆ 'Bridgerton' star Phoebe Dynevor subtly revealed she's engaged at the Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-08 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Phoebe Dynevor attended the Met Gala on Monday in a custom Victoria Beckham gown. She also quietly revealed she is engaged to Cameron Fuller with her Met Gala look. AdvertisementOne of Phoebe Dynevor's accessories for the 2024 Met Gala was not like the others. A-list stars, billionaires, and athletes attended the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion"-themed gala in various interpretations of " The Garden of Time " dress code. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Phoebe Dynevor, Victoria Beckham, Cameron Fuller, Dynevor, —, Phoebe Dynevor's Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum, Art's Costume, Business

☆ Cocktail Hour at the Met Gala: What Comes After the Carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Katie Van Syckle | Landon Nordeman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Up the carpeted stairs, past the tuxedoed photographers, Anna Wintour stood at the top of the steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit. “Your royal highnesses,” Baz Luhrmann, the Australian film director, said as he approached Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez and Chris Hemsworth, who were standing in a receiving line with Ms. Wintour. The space had been transformed by greenery, filled with string musicians and dancers, creating a “Midsummer Night’s” dreamscape just off Fifth Avenue. “How is it out there?” Ms. Wintour said, adding, “You look incredible.”One by one, the stratospherically famous faces that captivate imaginations worldwide walked carefully up the stairs and stopped to talk to the row of co-chairs. (Zendaya, the fifth co-chair, did not make it to the perch.)

Persons: Anna Wintour, ” Baz Luhrmann, Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth, Wintour, dreamscape, Ms Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume Institute Locations: Australian

Celebrities attended the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" Met Gala on Monday. AdvertisementThe 2024 Met Gala was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Monday. The annual fundraising event, which is held in celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, is one of the most exclusive events of the year. The Met Gala's theme changes each year, and celebrities from Zendaya to Lana Del Rey embraced the "Garden of Time" dress code at this year's event. AdvertisementHere were the best-dressed celebrities at the 2024 Met Gala.

Persons: Lana Del Rey, Colman Domingo, —, Anna Wintour Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum, Art's Costume, Vogue, Costume Institute, The Locations: New York

☆ The Met Gala, in Photos
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Every Gala has a dress code, which is tethered to the exhibition. All of which makes it easy to forget this is actually an important fund-raiser for one of New York’s cultural pillars: the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. It was once a free-standing museum, but when it merged with the Met in 1946, part of the deal was that the Costume Institute would have to pay for itself. Hence the gala, which raises all the funds for the institute’s operating budget. The Costume Institute itself has historically been housed in the museum’s basement — a clear statement about its status at the museum.

Persons: you’ve, —, Ballard, Katy Perry, Alexandria Ocasio, Cortez, ” scrawled, Kandinsky Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume, Met, Costume Locations: East Coast, Alexandria

☆ How Much Money Did This Year’s Met Gala Raise?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Callie Holtermann | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At the Met Gala on Monday, a throng of photographers fought to capture Zendaya and Kim Kardashian parading couture gowns down the red (technically, mouthwash-green) carpet. This year’s event raised about $26 million for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, according to a spokeswoman. That’s a $4 million increase over last year’s total, and more than double what the event raised a decade ago, in 2014. The most recent fall gala for the New York City Ballet raised just short of $4 million, and the American Museum of Natural History’s gala brought in $2.5 million. Even The Met’s other events do not compare: Its Art & Artists Gala raised $4.4 million last year.

Persons: Zendaya, Kim Kardashian, That’s, ”, Rachel Feinberg, “ Organizations: Metropolitan Museum, Art’s Costume, New York City Ballet, American Museum, Natural, Elmhurst Hospital Locations: New York City, Queens

☆ 19 celebrities who nailed the Met Gala's 'Garden of Time' theme
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Erin Mcdowell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Hollywood's biggest stars attended the 2024 Met Gala in New York City on Monday. Ayo Edebiri and Karlie Kloss nailed the theme in floral looks, while others wore archival pieces. AdvertisementThe 2024 Met Gala was held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Monday. Prior to the event, Vogue reported that attendees' looks would feature floral details and archival pieces, which many did. AdvertisementHere's every celebrity who nailed this year's Met Gala theme.

Persons: Kloss, —, J.G, Anna Wintour Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue Locations: New York City, New York

☆ 20 Unforgettable Looks at the Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( The Styles Desk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By Monday morning, the answer to one of the biggest questions looming over the Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York had emerged. Would members of the union representing employees of Vogue and other Condé Nast publications proceed with threatened disruptions to the gala orchestrated by Vogue editor Anna Wintour? No: A tentative contract agreement between Condé Nast and union leaders was reached hours before the event. — were only answered as attendees started stepping out of Sprinter vans to make their way into the gala, known formally as the Costume Institute Benefit. Among them: Floral prints and embellishments, elaborate headpieces and skin-revealing outfits that skewed more Garden of Eden.

Persons: Condé, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, Emily Ratajkowski, Pamela Anderson, Dan Levy Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, Condé Nast, Institute Locations: New York, Eden

The 2024 Met Gala was held in New York City on Monday night. Celebrity couples were some of the night's best-dressed and nailed the " Sleeping Beauties" theme. AdvertisementCelebrity couples were some of the best-dressed stars of the 2024 Met Gala. Hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on Monday, the annual fundraising ball welcomed guests to view the latest Costume Institute exhibit, titled "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Rita Ora, Taika, — Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Business Locations: New York City

☆ This entrepreneur was actually the best-dressed person on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe 2024 Met Gala came and went in a flash of glamorous red-carpet fashion. AdvertisementBut one of the best takes came from Mona Patel, a philanthropist and entrepreneur who made her Met Gala debut. Related storiesHer work in the fashion world led her to the 2024 Met Gala, where she arrived in a custom Iris van Herpen couture gown. AdvertisementMona Patel on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet. Mona Patel walks up the steps at the Met Gala 2024.

Persons: —, J.G . Ballard, Mona Patel, Patel, Iris van Herpen, Iris, Dimitrios Kambouris, Casey Curran, Cindy Ord, MG24, Roach, Law Roach, Zendaya's, he's, Chris Martin, Edgar Martin Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, Business, Haute Mona, Forbes, The Met Museum, Vogue India, Vogue Fashion, Zendaya's Locations: India, Mumbai

☆ Is the Met Gala Protest-Proof?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Vanessa Friedman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If ever a Met Gala seemed primed to clash with its political moment, it was the 2024 Met. On the one hand, there was the event: the most opulent, extravagant, expensive party of the year, where a single ticket cost a whopping $75,000 — 50 percent more than last year’s ticket and more than $15,000 more than the average American salary. On the other hand, there was a city roiled by student protests over the war in Gaza and rived by the country’s first criminal trial of a former president, and a sponsor (Condé Nast) in a fight with its employees over their union. Even the evening’s dress code seemed to acknowledge the dichotomy: “The Garden of Time,” the title of a J.G. Ballard short story about an aristocratic couple isolated in their mansion as an unruly mob draws ever closer, brandishing sticks and tools and a threat to their way of life.

Persons: Condé Nast, Ballard, “, ” Andrew Bolton Organizations: Institute Locations: Gaza

Fashion's most extravagant night is in full swing, with celebrities descending on New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual Met Gala. The invitation-only event, held the first Monday of May, raises money for the museum's Costume Institute. Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth are co-chairs alongside Anna Wintour. In the late British author's story, a count and his wife live in a grand villa with a crystalline garden of time-manipulating flowers. The Costume Institute's concurrent exhibition, "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," will showcase rare designs that span 400 years.

Persons: Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Wintour, J.G, Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli, Alexander McQueen Organizations: New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, Zendaya Locations: New, British

☆ Met Gala 2024: Everything we know about the theme, hosts and guests
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Bad Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will co-chair this year's Met Gala for the exhibition "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion." The first celebrities to appear will be Gala co-chairs Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth, the last of whom is making his Met Gala debut. What was the first Met Gala theme? Gwyneth Paltrow famously called the Met Gala “un-fun” in 2013 and said she’d “never” go again, but returned in 2017 (and 2019). Met Gala guests have often broken the no-social-media rule to give a more candid glimpse of who is hanging with who and what goes on behind closed doors.

Persons: CNN —, —, Jared Leto’s, Rihanna, J.G, Ballard, Andrew Bolton, Bunny, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth, Zendaya, James Devaney, Victor Aubry, Christina House, Neil Mockford, Bad Bunny, Anna Wintour, Wintour, Arturo Holmes, Karl Lagerfeld, Rei Kawakubo, Charles James, Christian Dior, Alexander McQueen, Gianni Versace, Angela Weiss, Lagerfeld, Anne Hathaway, Nicole Kidman, Jenna Ortega, Chanel, Fendi, Eleanor Lambert, Diana Vreeland, LaunchMetrics, Calvin Klein, “, ” Cher, Ron Galella, ”, Lady Gaga, Kardashian, Jenners, Donald Trump, James Corden’s, Demi Lovato, Zayn Malik, Tina Fey, Fey, David Letterman ”, backtrack, Gwyneth Paltrow, she’d “, Olivia Wilde, Margaret Zhang, Kevin Mazur, Bella Hadid, Dakota Johnson, Jason Derulo, Jay, Solange, it’s, ” Wilde Organizations: CNN, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute, Los Angeles Times, American Vogue, New York Times, Getty, Super, Hollywood, Vogue, “ Vogue China Locations: New York, British, American, China

☆ Tyla stole the show on the Met Gala red carpet in a skin-tight dress made from sand
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

South African musician Tyla made her Met Gala debut on Monday. She wore a daring dress designed by Balmain, which was covered from top to bottom in sand. But the dress was slightly impractical, as she needed to be carried up the Met steps. AdvertisementTyla's Grammy-winning hit might be called "Water," but it was sand she embraced at the 2024 Met Gala. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Tyla, — Organizations: Balmain, Service, Business

☆ In Brooklyn, the Anti-Met Gala Raises Funds for Medical Debt
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Alex Vadukul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Twenty-four hours before the Met Gala, a starkly different sort of gala occurred in Brooklyn at the Bell House, a concert venue that sits on a lonesome industrial street near the Gowanus Canal. It was the second annual Debt Gala, which bills itself as a D.I.Y. alternative to the lavish spring benefit in Manhattan, which raises hundreds of millions each year for the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. The theme, “Sleeping Baddies: Slumber Party,” was a parody of this year’s Met ball theme, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” Many of the participants at the Bell House wore bathrobes, pajamas and fuzzy slippers, along with sleep masks, travel pillows and other slumber-centric accessories.

Persons: ” Organizations: Bell, Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Locations: Brooklyn, Gowanus, Manhattan

☆ Every outfit the Kardashian-Jenner family has ever worn at the Met Gala, ranked from least to most iconic
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Members of the Kardashian-Jenner family have been attending the Met Gala since 2013. Kim Kardashian's outfits, in particular, have become some of the most famous worn at the event. AdvertisementIt's tough to imagine the Met Gala without the Kardashian-Jenner family. And while some of their outfits have made Met Gala history, others have missed the mark. Here's a look at everything the family has worn at the annual event, ranked from least to most iconic.

Persons: Kardashian, Jenner, Kim Kardashian's, —, Kim Kardashian, Kanye, Kris Jenner Organizations: Service, Costume Institute

☆ All of Blake Lively's Met Gala looks, ranked from least to most iconic
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Celia Fernandez | Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Blake Lively has attended 10 Met Galas throughout her career. Most recently, Lively wore a dress inspired by NYC landmarks that changed colors. AdvertisementThe 2024 Met Gala has finally arrived. A-list stars will show off their interpretations of the "The Garden of Time" dress code for the "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" Met Gala with their red carpet attire. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Blake Lively, Lively, — Organizations: Met, Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Business

☆ Opinion | The Baffling Theme of This Year’s Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Anna Marks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Met Gala is an annual spectacle of celebrity that raises money for the museum’s Costume Institute, which works to preserve fashion history. The night’s enduring power can largely be chalked up to the way guests interpret its themed dress code, which changes every year. At its most brilliant, a theme might inspire absurd, campy or daring interpretations by clever designers. In either case, the commentary the theme provokes gives the gala its enduring cultural relevance. Ballard implicitly criticizes the wealthy count’s distance from the public, but the gala essentially celebrates the counts among us.

Persons: there’s, Ballard Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Institute, Costume Institute

Stars pull out all the stops to follow the event's dress code, which changes each year. Rihanna, Cher, and Zendaya have worn some of the best outfits in Met Gala history. AdvertisementThe 2024 Met Gala has finally arrived. There are always eye-catching looks at the Met Gala, but some outfits stand out from the pack. AdvertisementTake a look back at some of the best-dressed Met Gala attendees of all time.

Persons: Rihanna, Cher, —, Anna Wintour, Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue Locations: New York City

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. The 2024 Met Gala, an elaborate fundraiser for the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was held on Monday in New York City. The event theme was "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," with this year's exhibition spotlighting "precious masterpieces of fashion" using technology, Vogue announced in November 2023. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. The 2024 Met Gala co-chairs included Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Zendaya, and Chris Hemsworth, while Loewe's creative director, Jonathan Anderson, and TikTok CEO Shou Chew were the event's honorary chairs.

Persons: —, Jennifer Lopez, Bad, Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth, Jonathan Anderson, Shou Chew, J.G Organizations: Service, Costume, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, Business Locations: New York City

☆ Met Gala tickets, which are invite-only, cost $75,000. Here's what that gets attendees.
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The Met Gala is notoriously exclusive. In 2024, individual tickets cost $75,000, while entire tables cost $350,000. AdvertisementOne of the most intriguing qualities of the Met Gala is its exclusivity. Time reported that individual tickets for 2024's Met Gala, which is a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, cost $75,000, up from $50,000 in 2023. AdvertisementSo, while only a select group of elite individuals experience the grandeur of the Met Gala, the rest of us are left to wonder what that actually entails.

Persons: —, Anna Wintour, — there's, Wintour Organizations: Service, Vogue, Metropolitan Museum, Art's Costume Institute

☆ Zendaya, Bad Bunny and a Threat of a Picket Line at the 2024 Met Gala
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Louis Lucero Ii | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On Monday night, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will play host to one of the biggest fund-raising events and starriest parties of the year: the annual Costume Institute Benefit or, as it’s been known for years, the Met Gala. The event, which raises millions of dollars for the museum’s self-funding fashion wing, has become known for its audacious red carpet, with a highly exclusive guest list handpicked by Anna Wintour, the longtime Vogue editor and Condé Nast executive. But this year’s event has been unusually shadowed by drama. The union representing employees of Condé Nast publications including Bon Appétit, GQ, Vanity Fair and Vogue escalated the stakes in its long-running contract negotiations on Saturday, telling the company in a video posted on X that if management didn’t meet the union at the bargaining table, its members would “meet you at the Met,” setting up the possibility of a picket line during Vogue’s biggest night. A representative from the New York Police Department said that there were no street closures planned and that the police would have “an adequate security deployment.”

Persons: it’s, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, didn’t Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue, New York Police Department

☆ Live Updates: The 2024 Met Gala Is Here
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Louis Lucero Ii | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Although the guest list for the gala is kept strictly under wraps, some famous faces are a surer bet than others. Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya will all be joining Ms. Wintour as co-chairs of the event. The dress code for the gala on Monday night is “Garden of Time,” an apparent reference to a 1962 short story by the British writer J.G. Ballard in which aristocrats living in a walled estate are menaced by the advance of a violent rabble. But the theme also nods to the subject of the spring exhibition, titled “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”

Persons: it’s, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, Bon Appétit, didn’t, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Wintour, Rihanna, J.G, Ballard Organizations: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vogue Locations: New York City, British

☆ 10 of the biggest moments in Met Gala history
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Mykenna Maniece | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

The Met Gala is home to some of history's biggest fashion and pop-culture moments. Zendaya's Joan of Arc-inspired look from 2018's Gala remains one of her most iconic fashion moments. NEW LOOK Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Throughout the years, the Met Gala has transformed into a multimillion-dollar fundraiser — last year's event reportedly raised $22 million — filled with unforgettable fashion, controversies, and canon-level pop-culture moments. AdvertisementAs the world awaits all that this year's party has to offer on May 6, here's a look back at 10 memorable moments in Met Gala history.

Persons: Taylor, Joan of Arc, —, What's, Eleanor Lambert, who's, Diana Vreeland, Pat Buckley, Anna Wintour, Condé Nast, Wintour Organizations: Service, New York, Metropolitan Museum, Art's, Vogue, Party

☆ 18 vintage photos of the Met Gala that show it's been a glamourous night for decades
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Anneta Konstantinides | Samantha Grindell | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

The 2024 Met Gala will take place Monday night. Vintage photos show socialites, celebrities, and even royals mingling in the past. AdvertisementThe Met Gala is among the most exciting fashion events of the year. An annual fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, the Met Gala brings together celebrities, socialites, athletes, and nepo babies in the form of a themed party at the museum itself. The 2024 Met Gala has a "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion" theme and a " Garden of Time " dress code, which will shape what attendees wear on the red carpet.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, Metropolitan Museum, Art's Costume Institute, Business

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