Met Gala 2024 Celebrity Style: Sleeping Beauties, Reawakening Fashion
The 2024 Met Gala, themed "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion," transformed the Met into a whimsical wonderland on May 6. Celebrities stunned in "The Garden of Time" theme inspired ensembles, merging history with futuristic flair.
The theme—inspired by a J.G. Ballard story, highlighted a count who slows time by cutting roses to delay an angry mob. This dystopian tale, paired with the exhibit's blend of past and future, led to a red carpet teeming with floral motifs, techno-inspired designs, and nods to Sleeping Beauty. Celebrities embraced this mix of old-world charm and futuristic flair, making it a night where fashion truly bridged the ages.
Presented at The Met Fifth Avenue from May 10 through September 2, 2024, the exhibition, featuring 250 rare items from over 400 years of fashion history, will also feature original research, conservation analysis, and diverse technologies to revive and explore the sensory capacities of masterworks in the Museum’s collection. Using the natural world as a uniting visual metaphor for the transience of fashion, the show will explore cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal, breathing new life into these storied objects through creative and immersive activations designed to convey the smells, sounds, textures, and motions of garments that can no longer directly interact with the body.
Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO, said: “The Met's innovative spring 2024 Costume Institute exhibition will push the boundaries of our imagination and invite us to experience the multisensory facets of a garment, many of which get lost when entering a museum collection as an object. Sleeping Beauties will heighten our engagement with these masterpieces of fashion by evoking how they feel, move, sound, smell and interact when being worn, ultimately offering a deeper appreciation of the integrity, beauty and artistic brilliance of the works on display.”
Andrew Bolton, Curator in Charge, The Costume Institute, commented: “When an item of clothing enters our collection, its status is changed irrevocably. What was once a vital part of a person’s lived experience is now a motionless ‘artwork’ that can no longer be worn or heard, touched, or smelled. The exhibition endeavors to reanimate these artworks by re-awakening their sensory capacities through a diverse range of technologies, affording visitors sensorial ‘access’ to rare historical garments and rarefied contemporary fashions. By appealing to the widest possible range of human senses, the show aims to reconnect with the works on display as they were originally intended—with vibrancy, with dynamism, and ultimately with life.”
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See below for some of our favorite MET Gala looks:
Gigi Hadid
Kendall Jenner
Tyla
Jennifer Lopez
Kylie Jenner
Emily Ratajkowski
Sarah Jessica Parker
Kim Kardashian
Emma Chamberlain
Zendaya
