The official dress code of Met for 2022 is,
“In America: An Anthology of Fashion”. It will be Gilded Glamour, white tie. It has always been the prior for the Met Gala to give importance to the dress code. In the year 2020 it was “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” it was studied insignificantly.
Following the year 2021, it was for, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” it was American Independence. Then comes the current one 2022 which is going to be on May 2.
What is the Met Gala?
It is commonly known as the Met Ball or Met Gala Ball. The annual concept is a celebration of fashion honoring the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute and voila the spring exhibit is opening. Many celebrities are invited to this gala where they are instructed to work with today’s top designers to form the perfect match for the chosen theme. The Met Gala also serves as a fundraiser for the MET and is all overseen by legendary Vogue EIC Anna Wintour.
Theme:
Age of Innocence and The House of Mirth of Edith Wharton is cancelled. This year’s Met Gala will ask it’s audiences to embody the magnificence and sometimes the segregation of Gilded Age of New York. This period stretched from 1870 to 1890 (Mark Twain was credited with coining of this term in 1873) was one of the unparalleled prosperity, cultural change, and industrialization when both skyscrapers and fortunes seemingly arose overnight.
Thomas Edison’s light bulb, patented in 1882, alit first The New York Times building and then the entire city. Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 telephone made communication instant—and created a demand for operators to man the lines, leading one of the first mass waves of women into the workplace. Wages skyrocketed past those in Europe (although, as Jacob Riis captured in How the Other Half Lives, far from everyone benefited).
Architects McKim, Mead, and White built Beaux Arts buildings up and down Fifth Avenue, beautifying the city in the process. And in 1893, Vogue was founded with the mission of publishing the “point of view of the cultivated citizens of the world.” Original stockholders included Cornelius Vanderbilt, Peter Cooper Hewitt, and John E. Parsons—last names that still live on in New York to this day.
Celebrities who missed last year’s Met Gala, 2021:
Nicki Minaj – She wasn’t in attendance because she was not vaccinated.
Zendaya – She had work commitments she couldn’t skip.
Kylie Jenner – She decided to skip the event.
sarah Jessica and Andy Cohen – Skipped the event because the former was working.
Harry Styles – He was on world tour.
Beyonce – She was on a vacation.
Lady Gaga – She was last seen in L.A
Zayn Malik – He must have spent time with his daughter (reason is still not clear)
Ariana Grande – She was probably enjoying newlywed bliss.
Taylor Swift – She was still in Ireland
Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas – Likely skipped because the Jonas Brothers tour.
Blake Lively – She wasn’t in the attendance.
Time:
The time has not been confirmed yet but last year the red carpet live stream started at 5:30pm EST.
