Everything you need to know about the Met Gala

The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in Manhattan. The Met Gala is popularly regarded as the world’s most prestigious and glamorous fashion event.

Since it started in 1948, the Met Gala has delivered boundary-pushing fashion modeled by celebrities and cultural icons, from rock stars to activists. The star-studded event generates millions of dollars for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute.

“Fashion’s biggest night” is hosted annually on the first Monday in May. It began as a fundraiser for the newly-founded institute, with tickets at only $50. Instead of modeling looks on the museum’s famous steps and partying in the Temple of Dendur as they do today, attendees were hosted at famous New York City venues including the Waldorf Astoria and Central Park for the first 20 years of the event.

We are always interested in trying to reflect a cultural moment and what we feel is happening at the world in any given time,” Wintour said about the invitees. 

“Every year is different and we try and curate the guest list in a way that makes sense for whatever the theme of the exhibition is,” Wintour said. 

It’s been the setting of notable and much-discussed pop culture highlights, from Rihanna’s 2015 arrival in a lengthy Chinese cape, to Lady Gaga’s multi-faceted reveals at the 2019 Camp-themed gala. Within the last decade, fashion nerds, critics and consumers review the red carpet with keen precision to understand, through photos and videos, the efforts — and at times, mistakes— that go into preparing for the event.

In this section you can identify the different types of costumes that can be seen at the gala met and their respective style, cut, shapes and places where they can be used, starting with the most common costume and ending with the most elegant.

With these 4 examples we can verify which is the right one for the event you will attend, and already having the mail suit for the event you can experiment with the colors and add your own style without removing the suit and the elegant.
We can take example as in the event of met gala and gold gala different times of costumes with the style of each person and combinations of colors that stand out.

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suit: generally advised for day events or no etiquette is required. It consists of jacket and trousers, shirt with or without tie. There is a great variety of colours: grey, blue, beige, sand, black.

Tuxtlas: it is distinguished by the flaps of its jacket, usually in shiny silk or satin, the sash and the bow tie. Although a gala event is best dressed in a coat or jacket, the rigidity of these events has been softened. That’s why tuxedo is a very good choice, especially in evening and evening events.

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Jacket: the most characteristic feature of this outfit is the vest, usually black or gray, the most appropriate colors. However, nowadays it is a trend to wear it in other colors, especially in pastel, bordeaux or blue tones. Used in morning and evening events

Frac: it is the costume of maximum male etiquette. It is characterized by the fact that the jacket, generally black, reaches up to the waist in front and has two skirts separated from each other, which reach the height of the knees. Being a fully gala attire, it is only dressed under the explicit requirement of the act and events at night.

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