While the 2024 Met Gala’s “Garden of Time” sounded like a fantastical place, it felt very real on Monday, with supermodels, actors, athletes, billionaires, influencers, and other attendees showcasing a wide variety of the code of evening wear while doing so. his way on the red carpet draped over the famous steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Borrowed from the English writer The Short Story by JG Ballard 1962 of the same name, the “Garden of Time” theme of the Met Gala 2024 worked in conjunction with the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” Affectionately called “fashion’s biggest night,” the Met Gala is also a benefit for the Costume Institute, which serves as the primary source of funding for the department. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the show features approximately 250 pieces from the Costume Institute’s collection that span four centuries and are “visually united by iconography linked to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion” . With references to the natural world and the essence of time, it is clear that the theme of the Met Gala 2024 has fueled the imagination of designers, guests, makeup artists and hair stylists, encouraging creativity from head to toe on the lively red carpet.
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The theme of the Met Gala is always more than offering a dress code for the event; sets the tone for making fashion history and, in turn, inspires conversation long after the red carpet has been rolled out—be it a debate about the definition of field or an exploration of punk’s contributions to the world of high fashion.
Below, our choices for their originality and vision made a master of the “Garden of Time” theme. For more on the 2024 Met Gala red carpet, review all the fashion, clothes and looks hereand see who did Vanity Fair‘s best dressed list here.
