After a year’s break in 2020, the world-famous Met Gala is back, held this year on the second Monday in September. As well as a plethora of stunning outfits on guests, the selection of cochairs showed a more youthful modern outlook, with Timothée Chalamet, Billie Eilish, Amanda Gorman, and Naomi Osaka.
This year’s theme is “In America: The lexicon of fashion”, interpreted as a celebration of American fashion. Andrew Bolton, the Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, said “American fashion is undergoing a renaissance” due to social justice and political movements of recent years, making it the right “time to reexamine American identity and fashion” now.
Outfits ran the gamut from spectacularly contemporary to nostalgic Old Hollywood, but glamour and statement pieces were the order of the night. Some of my favourites were the silver, beaded, crystal and sheer gowns.
Met Gala 2021 Get The Look with these pieces
16 September 2021