Met Gala 2022: Look Inside the Actual Exhibit with These Photos!
The 2022 Met Gala is about to begin and the event will be celebrating the new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.
All of the celebrities in attendance at the Met Gala will be among the first people in the world to check out the exhibit, which opens to the public on May 5.
The Costume Institute’s In America is a two-part exhibition and the Met Gala this year is celebrating the opening of Part Two, An Anthology of Fashion.
“Fashion is both a harbinger of cultural shifts and a record of the forces, beliefs, and events that shape our lives,” said Max Hollein, the Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. “This two-part exhibition considers how fashion reflects evolving notions of identity in America and explores a multitude of perspectives through presentations that speak with powerful immediacy to some of the complexities of history. In looking at the past through this lens, we can consider the aesthetic and cultural impact of fashion on historical aspects of American life.”
Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of The Costume Institute, said: “American fashion has traditionally been described through the language of sportswear and ready-to-wear, emphasizing principles of simplicity, practicality, functionality, and egalitarianism. Generally denied the emotional rhetoric applied to European fashion, American fashion has evolved a vernacular that tends to sit in direct opposition to that of the haute couture. Part One of In America addresses this linguistic imbalance by presenting a revised vocabulary of American fashion based on its expressive qualities. Part Two will further investigate the evolving language of American fashion through a series of collaborations with American film directors who will visualize the unfinished stories inherent in The Met’s period rooms.”
Click through the gallery for 65+ photos from inside the exhibit…