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Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, Jennifer Lopez and Zendaya will join Vogue’s Anna Wintour as this year’s official co-chairs of the 2024 Met Gala in May, the Metropolitan Museum of Art revealed today.
The Met Gala, benefitting the museum’s Costume Institute, is set for Monday, May 6. and marks the opening of the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”
According to Vogue, which posted the announcement, the gala’s honorary chairs are Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson and TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew.
“This year’s co-chairs reflect a variety of career achievements, and all have distinct style histories with the Met Gala,” Vogue writes. “Rapper Bad Bunny will ring in his third year attending the affair (having delivered an unforgettable backless Jacquemus suit just last year), while actor Chris Hemsworth will mark his very first time at the gala.”
Lopez, the magazine notes, is a 13-time attendee who “has mastered the art of delivering statement looks at the annual event.” Zendaya, who has attended the Gala five times, “has also proven herself a consistent fan-favorite on the red carpet; some of her best style moments at the gala have included her show-stopping Dolce & Gabbana gown from 2017, as well as her 2018 Joan of Arc look by Versace.”
The dress code for this year’s Gala is “The Garden of Time,” and, Vogue suggests, “one should also consider the aforementioned exhibition, ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,'” which includes pieces that span decades that will all be displayed in “entirely new ways using elements such as AI, GCI, and more while playing up themes of land, sea, and sky.”
The dress code title takes inspiration from a 1962 J.G. Ballard short story “The Garden of Time,” which tells the tale of a Count Axel and his Countess wife who, according to Vogue, live in a “utopia of leisure, art, and beauty; they live in a villa with a terrace that overlooks a garden of crystalline flowers with translucent leaves, gleaming glass-like stems, and crystals at the heart of every bloom.”
