The
most
anticipated
party
of
the
year
is
just
around
the
corner.
Movie
stars,
musicians
and
celebrities
will
walk
at
the
Met
Gala,
as
part
of
the
Costume
Institute’s
charity
event
that
will
take
place
on
May
6
at
the
Metropolitan
Museum
in
New
York.
It’s
a
magical
night
that
draws
all
the
A-listers
to
New
York
—
and
the
curiosity
of
the
world,
as
fans
wait
to
see
what
kind
of
outfits
their
favorite
stars
will
wear
Although
creativity
at
the
gala
has
no
limit,
the
idea
behind
the
guests’
style
will
be
linked
to
the
Met
Gala
theme.
What
does
the
Met
Gala
theme
mean?
The
theme
this
year
will
be
“Sleeping
Beauties:
Reawakening
Fashion,”
which
is
the
name
of
the
Costume
Institute’s
spring
2024
exhibition.
That
doesn’t
mean
that
celebrities
will
dress
like
sleeping
beauties,
but
rather
that
the
exhibition
will
be
based
on
unique
garments
from
four
centuries
ago
that
will
be
reborn
for
those
who
see
them.
The
exhibition
will
display
around
250
garments
and
accessories
with
400
years
of
history,
visually
united
by
iconography
related
to
nature,
which
will
serve
as
a
metaphor
for
the
fragile,
ephemeral
nature
of
fashion
and
a
vehicle
to
examine
cyclical
themes
of
renaissance
and
renewal,
as
the
museum’s
website
detailed.
“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,” said
the
Met
website.
“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,”
said
Andrew
Bolton,
The
Costume
Institute’s
curator
in
charge.
The
exhibition
will
be
a
series
of
“sleeping
beauties,”
garments
that
can
no
longer
be
dressed
on
mannequins
due
to
their
extreme
fragility,
displayed
in
glass
“coffins”
allowing
visitors
to
analyze
their
various
states
of
deterioration
as
if
under
a
microscope.
Select
“beauties”
will
be
brought
back
to
life
by
the
illusion
technique
known
as
Pepper’s
ghost.
The
exhibition
will
run
from
May
10
to
September
2,
2024
following
the
Met
Gala.
What’s
the
dress
code
for
the
Met
Gala?
Based
on
the
name
of
the
exhibition,
the
dress
code
for
celebrities
this
year
is
“The
Garden
of
Time.”
As
explained
in
Vogue
magazine,
the
dress
code
is
inspired
by
a
short
story
written
by
J.G
Ballard,
which
has
the
same
name
of
the
exhibition
and
was
published
in
1962.
In
this
story
there
is
a
combination
of
beauty
and
destruction,
it
shows
how
over
time
a
garden
of
flowers
end
up
sloppy
and
graceless.
According
to
the
magazine,
it
is
possible
that
celebrities
are
inspired
by
designs
based
on
melancholic
flowers
or
designs
related
to
time.