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Celebration of American design themed ‘gilded glamour’ prompts slogans, homage and big dose of history

It's the annual high-stakes fashion soiree is a major money-maker for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute and an opportunity for mega-wattage stars and influencers to turn out in style.

From punk and China to Catholicism

Amanda Gorman and Billie Eilish are among this year’s guests

2023 Met Gala will take place at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on 1 May

Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds and Regina King are among this year’s hosts

Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one. Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors…

Well, hello first Monday in May. The year's biggest night in fashion, the Met Gala, returns to its usual berth on the social calendar this year after pandemic upheaval. And if it feels like one of those what, already moments, it is. It's been just under eight months since the…

Lights, camera

Yu, a former co-host and regular attendee of the Met Gala, reveals what it’s like when you step inside the exclusive event

Met Gala 2022 returns on first Monday in May