NEW YORK -- Curiosity around how guests would interpret this year's "Garden of Time" theme was quickly answered with a flurry of florals, vintage, leather, fascinators and classic tuxedos at this year's Met Gala, fashion's biggest night held on the first Monday in May.
NEW YORK — Curiosity around how guests would interpret this year’s “Garden of Time” theme was quickly answered with a flurry of florals, vintage, leather, fascinators and classic tuxedos at this year’s Met Gala, fashion’s biggest night held on the first Monday in May.
Celebrities, executives, musicians, politicians and more showed off every angle of every look for photographers and fans. Guests sashayed down an off-white carpet dotted with teal borders and posed in front of backdrops of vegetation and flora, creating an ethereal quality to the evening’s festivities. The “Midsummer Night’s Dream” vibe was countered by the dramatic flair of celebrities like Colman Domingo and co-chair Bad Bunny, and it wouldn’t be a Met Ball without the trains (on Alton Mason and Lea Michele, to name a few).
Lisa Love at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
Anna Wintour at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Samantha Barry at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Maleah Joi Moon at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
Ashley Graham at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Matt Damon and Luciana Barroso at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Bad Bunny at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
Steve Newhouse and Gina Sanders at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Rebecca Hall at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
Mindy Kaling at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
Zendaya at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Jennifer Lopez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)
FILE — Bad Bunny, left, wears a design by Simon Porte Jacquemus, right, at the 2023 Met Gala in Manhattan on May 1, 2023. The annual event raises millions of dollars for the museum’s self-funding fashion wing. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times)
The L Train Brass Band performs at the Debt Ball, which bills itself as a do-it-yourself alternative to the lavish Met Gala, at the event at the Bell House in the Brooklyn borough of New York, May 5, 2024. The “anti-Met Gala” seeks to raise awareness of personal debt burdens and health care inequality, with the proceeds going toward organizations that help relieve people from heavy medical debt. (Ben Sklar/The New York Times)
Robert Soros and Jamie Singer Soros at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
The singer Lizzo with the actress Gabrielle Union, the wife of the former NBA star Dwyane Wade, at La Mercerie, the restaurant and home goods store, in New York, May 5, 2024. Designers, athletes and celebrities swapped stories on dress fittings and gala prep routines on the eve of fashion’s biggest party. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
Jennifer Lopez at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York, May 6, 2024. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)
