The Met Gala, which advantages the Costume Institute, is held yearly on the primary Monday of Might.

The Met Gala is held on the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in New York Metropolis. The occasion is invite-only and carries a hefty price ticket. This 12 months, tickets to the occasion are reportedly $50,000 a bit, with costs for tables starting at $300,000, in keeping with the New York Occasions.

What truly goes on contained in the occasion is comparatively secret, as celebrities are banned from posting images or movies from inside on social media. Nonetheless, official images from previous Met Galas provide a glimpse into the decorations and environment contained in the occasion. 

The museum fully transforms for the annual occasion.

Images from inside the principle foyer of final 12 months’s Met Gala present the pink carpet, which continues from the underside of the steps into the doorway corridor. The carpet, which adjustments from 12 months to 12 months, was coloured pink, white, and blue to characterize the American flag and the 2022 theme, “In America: An Anthology of Style.”

This 12 months, the theme is “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Magnificence,” a homage to the legacy of the late designer and fashion-industry icon Karl Lagerfeld. The decorations and pink carpet will possible be totally different from years previous to replicate the brand new theme.

Final 12 months, a big spiral-staircase sculpture was erected in the midst of the room to greet movie star visitors.

The 2022 costume code was “gilded glamour,” impressed by the Gilded Age of New York Metropolis. To match the theme and costume code of the evening, Shane Valentino designed the centerpiece to characterize the Statue of Liberty’s everlasting flame. 

“I am hoping that this sculpture will probably be a reflective second and permit us to consider what these symbols imply to us in a private approach,” Valentino instructed Vogue in 2022.

Final 12 months, a big arched floral association welcomed visitors into the principle seating space.

The decorations change from 12 months to 12 months. Final 12 months, the decorations closely featured pink flowers and roses.

The occasion’s visitor checklist is meticulously curated by Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

Wintour additionally serves because the evening’s host. Earlier this 12 months, stories emerged that the visitor checklist could be slimmed down for the 2023 Met Gala, although Wintour herself by no means confirmed that to be the case.

Contained in the 2022 Met Gala, visitors could possibly be seen milling about from desk to desk in entrance of huge projection screens. There was additionally a stage arrange for dwell performances.

The precise seating chart is designed by Vogue contributing editor Eaddy Kiernan — a course of that she says takes months to arrange.

“We begin with a seating doc when the names come collectively in December,” Kiernan instructed Vogue forward of the 2023 Met Gala. “The precise seating chart would not come collectively till a couple of month earlier than the occasion, after we get a way for the format of the room, and the circulate of the night.”

The dinner itself for trend’s greatest evening is curated by famend cooks. Final 12 months, the menu featured a vegan spin on deviled eggs, barbecue strip loin, with chocolate cake and mousse served in teacups for dessert.

“We actually attempt to assume very fastidiously about who’s sitting subsequent to one another,” Kiernan continued. “Our perfect pairing would perhaps be two individuals who we expect will simply get on like a home on hearth, however who might not even understand that they’ve quite a bit in frequent. So with every particular person, we actually do take time to assume, ‘What is going to they discuss?’”

There’s often one headline performer for the evening’s festivities.

Final 12 months, Lenny Kravitz took to the stage to carry out hits like “American Girl,” “Are You Gonna Go My Method,” and “Fly Away.” Kacey Musgraves additionally carried out a canopy of “Cannot Assist Falling in Love” from the soundtrack to “Elvis,” earlier than its launch that summer season. 

Previous Met Gala performers have included superstars like Rihanna, Florence and the Machine, and Woman Gaga.

Nonetheless, the principle attraction for celebrities attending the Met Gala is the possibility to fulfill and mingle with the most important names in Hollywood.

Many movie star {couples} have met on the unique occasion, from exes Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson to Taylor Swift and her (reportedly now ex) boyfriend Joe Alwyn. 

“It is enjoyable for assembly the 5 folks you’ve got all the time wished to fulfill in your life,” Marcus Wainwright, a co-founder of Rag & Bone who has attended a number of Met Galas, instructed the New York Occasions in 2016. “It provides you some form of permission since you acquired within the entrance door.”