Shock duo. Actress Zendaya and the prince of Latin rap Bad Bunny are among the co-presidents of the next Met Gala, the big New York social gathering where the stars parade in extravagant outfits. They will be accompanied by actress Jennifer Lopez and Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, Thor in the Marvel saga. On May 6 and like every year, they will accompany on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum, backing onto Central Park on 5th Avenue in Manhattan, the high priestess of events and fashion, the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine Anna Wintour.
Thanks to his albums Un verano sin ti, released in 2022 and Nadie Sabe Lo Que va a Pasar Manana, released in 2023, Bad Bunny rose to 2nd place on the podium of the most listened to artists in the world on Spotify, behind Taylor Swift. Revealed on Disney Channel, Zendaya became a star for her role in the series Euphoria, broadcast on HBO about the lives of adolescents, between trauma, romantic relationships and addictions.
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Both a celebrity parade and a social and philanthropic evening, the Met Gala constitutes the main source of funding for the museum’s fashion department. In its press release, the Metropolitan Museum emphasizes that “to date, and since Met administrator Anna Wintour took over as director, the gala has raised $223.5 million for the Costume Institute.” “.
Each year, the event takes place on the first Monday of May and accompanies the opening of the major exhibition of the “Costume Institute”, dedicated in 2024 to the “sleeping beauties” of the museum, in other words these pieces of clothing or outfits oldest or fragile in its collection. And the dress code for the evening, other information eagerly awaited by fashionistas who will crowd on May 6 at the foot of the steps to catch a glimpse of the stars: “The Garden of Time”, which refers to a short story of the same name from the British science fiction writer J.G. Ballard, on the ephemeral nature of beauty.
This “dress code” allows great designers to put their imagination at the service of the outfits worn by the stars, and the climb to the steps of the Met is every year the occasion for a competition of sartorial extravagance, as in 2021, when the Reality TV star Kim Kardashian arrived completely covered in black, including her face.
