Photo: Getty Images For years, the Met Gala has taken place on the first Monday in May. But the pandemic changed everyone’s plans in 2020, and fashion’s “biggest night,” as it’s so often described, was canceled. The Costume Institute’s corresponding spring exhibit, “About Time: Fashion and Duration,” never got its celebrity-driven theme party, although it did eventually open to the public in October — just fashionably late, and with limited capacity.
Part one, ”In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” will open in the Anna Wintour Costume Center on September 18, 2021. According to a press release, it will celebrate the Costume Institute’s 75th anniversary and “explore a modern vocabulary of American fashion,” meaning it will highlight more contemporary designers — something that has not been done to such an extent in the past — and put them in conversation with those who came before them.
As for the Met Gala, a “more intimate” Costume Institute Benefit will take place on Monday, September 13, ahead of the part one opening, and a full-blown gala for part two is scheduled for the first Monday in May of 2022.
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