Timothée Chalamet; Amanda Gorman; Naomi Osaka; Billie Eilish.Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images; Mike Coppola/Getty Images; Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
TheMet Gala 2021co-chairs have been revealed!
Gen Z superstarsTimothée Chalamet,Billie Eilish,Naomi OsakaandAmanda Gormanwill help bring the biggest night in fashion back in full force after a year-and-a-half-long hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic,Vogueconfirms. Honorary chairs for the evening will be Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri andVogueeditor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
Eilish herself recentlyunveiled a totally new look on the cover of BritishVogue,while Gorman landed an IMG Models contract —and the May cover of AmericanVogue—after hercompelling performance of her poem “The Hill We Climb"at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Tennis superstarOsaka is a new face of Louis Vuitton, andChalamet was named one the “most influential man in fashion” in 2019.
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After the co-chair announcement was released, Chalamet posted the news on his Instagram feed with an image of the iconic Metropolitan Museum of Art’s front steps, additionally sharing photos of himself and the other co-chairs.
Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, revealed during a virtual press conference that part one of the exhibition will be organized to resemble a home with intersecting walls and rooms. Heexplainedthat the design will represent “a new vocabulary that’s more relevant and more reflective of the times in which we’re living.”
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He also confirmed that a second Met Gala will be held on May 2, 2022 (bringing back the First Monday in May timing) to celebrate the opening ofAn Anthology of American Fashion.
source: people.com
