The Met Gala 2023 will be chaired by Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer, Michaela Coel and Dua Lipa

the monday 1^er May 2023 the new edition of the Met Gala. A highly anticipated event, since it will be chaired by four interplanetary stars. The Spanish actress (and Chanel muse) Penelope Cruzactress and director Michaela Coelthe Swiss tennis player (and friend ofAnna Wintour) Roger Federer and the british singer Dua Lipa were chosen to play the masters of ceremony for this very special evening.

The Met Ball will launch the exhibition Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty supported by Chanel and visible from May 5 to July 16, 2023 in the New York Museum. To stick to this retrospective, which retraces the designer’s career with the help of 150 pieces designed for Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel and his own Karl Lagerfeld brand, the dress code of the 2023 edition of the Met Gala is entitled “In honor of Karl”. The opportunity for the guests to draw on the couturier’s archives and, at the same time, to promote vintage fashion.

Who will be the guests of the Met Gala 2023?

It is the tradition: the guest list of the Met Gala is never communicated in advance and is discovered when the stars arrive on the red carpet. For the 2021 edition of the Met Ball, you had to count on Gigi Hadid, Karlie Kloss, Justin Bieber, Simon Biles, Alicia Keys, Lili Reinhart, Megan Fox, Lily-Rose Depp… And if the stars had mainly bet on American designers (Raph Lauren, Prabal Gurung, Vera Wang, Coach, Rick Owens, Thom Browne, Christian Siriano, Tom Ford), it’s the French house Balenciaga which was one of the most represented on the red carpet. Demna, the label’s artistic director, had thus dressed Rihanna, Isabelle Huppert, Elliot Page, Tracee Ellis Ross and Michaela Coel. Not to mention Kim Kardashian, dressed in a total black look that did not show the slightest centimeter of skin, since even her face was covered.

With the theme “Gilded Glamor“, the 2022 edition of the Met Gala, held on Monday, May 2, was going to be spectacular. And the stars graced the event with crazy looks! As expected, glitter, sequins and extravagance were at the appointment of this exceptional evening which referred to theamerica’s golden agea period of extreme industrialization for the country stretching from 1870 to the beginning of the 20th^th century. The opportunity for homes Versace, Michael KorsMoschino, Burberry and Iris van Herpen to get noticed by dressing the biggest stars of the whole world. Donatella Versace has thus signed the looks of Emily Ratajkowski, Lena Waithe, Olivia Rodrigo, Cole Sprouse, Cardi B, Blake Lively, Gigi Hadid, Gabrielle Union and Lily James. Riccardo Tisci for Burberry dressed Lila Grace and Kate Moss, Bad Bunny, Bella Hadid, Stormzy, Irina Shayk, Jacob Elordi, Naomi Campbell and Nicki Minaj. On his side, Jeremy Scott for Moschino composed outfits for Megan Thee Stallion, Khloé Kardashian, Iris Law, Vanessa Hudgens, Anitta, Simone Ashley, Madelaine Petsch and Mj Rodriguez. More pointed, the designer Thom Browne has also taken over the red carpet with his creations for Lizzo, Christine Baranski, Thomas Doherty, Kourtney Kardashian, Travis Barker, Maisie Williams and Oscar Isaac. On his side, Kim Kardashian had chosen to wear a famous dress. The gold and glittery piece sported by Marilyn Monroe in 1962 to sing “Happy Birthday Mr Presidentto President John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The theme of the Met Gala 2023 will be the work of Karl Lagerfeldfrom the beginning of his career in the 1950s to his death in 2019. His muses, from Kristen Stewart to Ines de la Fressange, will certainly be among the personalities invited to the event.

For two years, stars around the world have had to skip the Met Gala in May. Following the tradition, the event takes place on the first Monday of this month. Due to the coronavirus, the MetBall was completely canceled in 2020, then moved to Monday, September 13, 2021 the following year. To wait until that date, young fashion enthusiasts launched a look contest on social networks in May 2021. The goal: to democratize the Met Gala and make it an event in which everyone can participate. In 2022, back to normal since the Met Gala was held on Monday, May 2. The 2023 Met Gala, meanwhile, will take place on monday 1^er may.

What will be the theme of the Met Gala 2023?

Each year, the theme of the Met Gala changes to match the exhibition it opens. In 2023, it is Karl Lagerfeld who will be honoured. From May 5 to July 16, an exhibition entitled Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty will explore the six decades of creation that have marked the couturier’s career. The dress code for the event is titled “In Honor of Karl”. The theme of the 2022 Met Gala put American creation in the spotlight as the event was held just before the May 5, 2022 launch of the exhibition In America: An Anthology of Fashion. Its exact title? “Gilded Glamour”. In 2021, the Met Gala already had American fashion as its theme and was titled exactly “American Independence”. It preceded the opening of the exhibition In America: A Lexicon of Fashion which began on September 18, 2021, when the Costume Institute celebrated its 75th anniversary. the Met Gala 2020which did not take place because of the Covid, had as its theme About time: Fashion and durationthe Met Gala 2019 focused on aesthetics camp, the 2018 edition was called Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination while the Met Gala 2017 celebrated Rei Kawakubo, the founder of the Comme des Garçons brand.

Who will be the presidents of the Met Gala 2023?

Karl Lagerfeld, Lady Gaga, Riccardo Tisci… The presidents of the Met Gala are always as prestigious as the guests who flock there. In 2021, American youth in all its diversity was honored because singer Billie Eilish, actor Timothée Chalamet, tennis player Naomi Osaka and poet Amanda Gorman co-chaired the event. For the 2022 edition, the co-presidents were the American actors Regina King, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Linen-Manuel Mirandasupported by Tom Ford, the president of the CFDA, the popess of vogue Anna Wintour and Instagram boss Adam Mosseri. For the 2023 edition of the Met Galafour presidents have been appointed: the Spanish actress (and Chanel muse) Penelope Cruzactress and director Michaela Coelthe Swiss tennis player (and friend of Anna Wintour) Roger Federerthe British singer Dua Lipa.

Stars from all over the world had an appointment at New York for the 2022 edition of the Met Gala September 13th. The dress code for this very selective event? Gilded Glamora theme that foreshadowed a succession of metallic looks. Singer Cardi B and her golden Versace dress, Jessica Chastain and her red sequined Gucci outfit or even Megan Thee Stallion in Moschino played the game thoroughly. Kim Kardashian with her dress that belonged to Marilyn Monroe has meanwhile hit the headlines. In short, the Met Gala once again lived up to the expectations it aroused!

In 1946, with financial support from the fashion industry, the Museum of Costume Art merged with the Metropolitan Museum of Arts to become the Costume Institute. Two years later, the Costume Institute Benefit also known as the Met Gala, the inaugural meeting of the first bi-annual, then annual exhibition, is launched. The intention is clear: this supper in the heart of the museum is thought of as “party of the year”. It is certainly thanks to the contribution ofEleanor Lambert that he becomes. This ultra-powerful press secretary, nicknamed the Empress of Seventh Avenue, has a keen sense of fashion and communication. Her career bears witness to this: she founded the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1962, the fashion week of New York and takes part in the mythical Black and White Ball of Truman Capote in 1966. Her talent joins that of the great editor of the US Vogue Diana Vreelandin charge of the exceptional programming of the museum from 1972 until his death in 1989, to place the event in the center of attention and make it so coveted.

The Met Gala is part of Eleanor Lambert’s project to make the United States a benchmark in the fashion world. Little wonder, therefore, that it quickly became essential. In its wake, a succession of socialites influential people at the head of the committee, including Jackie Kennedy and socialite Patricia Buckley, helped to promote the event. But it is only recently, since 1999 and the arrival of Anna Wintour at its head, that the gala has reached the scale it is known for. The editor-in-chief of US Vogue known for her ability to reconcile star popular system and fashion elitism has won her bet. For its prestige as its extraordinary media coverage, the big brands and stars from all walks of life are fighting to get to this evening. As a result, the major red carpet is the scene of the greatest sartorial extravaganzas, but also of the scandals of the stars (we remember the quarrel of the elevator between Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Solange in 2014). For security reasons, but certainly above all for confidentiality, since 2015, smartphones have been prohibited there. Which does not fail to arouse curiosity around the biggest evening of the year.

Unless you are a guest of a fashion brand or designer, you have to pay. Behind the most popular party in the fashion industry is actually a great slot machine. In 2016, the New York Times unveiled the prices for attending the evening, with a ticket from $30,000 a seat to $275,000 a table. Thanks to these sums, the Met Gala is the main source of funding for the Costume Institute. It also generates tremendous traffic for the exposure it introduces. The exhibition China: Through the Looking Glass has, for example, accumulated more than 800,000 visitors. An institution in its own right, the evening was even the subject of a documentary film The First Monday in May by Andrew Rossi, released in 2016. All of this contributing to making fashion assimilate to a museum material, studied and preserved.

The Met Gala takes place every year at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Those who have not had the opportunity to visit this museum have surely already seen it in one of the many audiovisual productions having Big Apple as theatre. It is on its steps, for example, that Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen feed almost exclusively on natural yoghurt and foment their little plots to be the queens of the Upper East Side in gossip girl.