Drumroll, please…. This year’s Met Gala co-chairs have finally been announced!
And, as always, the choices couldn’t be more spot-on relating to the exhibition’s theme.
Alongside Condé Nast’s Anna Wintour, the three celebrities who will be standing at the helm of this May’s Costume Institute event will be the incomparable trio of Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams.
Announced in November, this year’s Exhibition theme is “Costume Art,” set to take place in the Costume Institute’s new permanent galleries at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“It’s a huge moment for the Costume Institute,” curator Andrew Bolton told Vogue, adding, “It will be transformative for our department, but I also think it’s going to be transformative to fashion more generally — the fact that an art museum like The Met is actually giving a central location to fashion.”
The inaugural exhibit, which opens to the public following the gala on the first Monday in May, will address “the centrality of the dressed body in the museum’s vast collection.”
As for this year’s co-chairs, each one boasts true icon status when it comes to fashion.
Co-chair or not, this marks Beyoncé’s first appearance at the event in a decade. She was last photographed on the museum’s epic stairway in 2016 at the Manus x Machina-themed event.
Kidman and Williams, on the other hand, have been regulars at the major gala for years.
Just last year, Kidman honored fashion history by wearing a re-creation of a 1952 Balenciaga gown.
At the same event, Williams chose to pay homage to her roots with a high-fashion version of courtside style, designed by Lacoste.
In everything that they wear, on and off the stage and court, all three women use couture to celebrate the body. They also use their influence to champion the designers they choose to wear.
As such, they exemplify the coming exhibit’s theme completely. Each co-chair is a perfect choice for paying tribute to fashion’s rightful place in this historic house of art and history.
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