Scheduled for May 4, it was to be co-chaired by Meryl Streep, Emma Stone, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nicolas Ghesquière, and Anna Wintour.
The Met Gala, one of New York’s most mundane events of the year, has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. A decision announced Monday by Anna Wintour, high priestess of fashion who chairs the organization of this event.
The editor-in-chief of Vogue American linked this postponement to “the responsible and inevitable decision of the Metropolitan Museum to close its doors” until further notice, in an open letter published on the magazine’s website.
Originally scheduled for May 4, the Metropolitan Museum Gala is a charity event held annually for the benefit of the Costume Insitute, a department of the museum with its own budget and which receives no funding from the Met.
An evening that rivals the Oscars
Created in 1948, the gala was for a long time an event reserved for very high New York society, the main source of patronage for the Met. It gradually opened up from the 1970s, before transforming itself after the arrival at its head of Anna Wintour, in 1995. She made it a people event, adapted to the era of social networks and to the democratization of fashion, to the point where it now rivals the Oscars.
The gala was to be co-chaired by American actress Meryl Streep, comedian Emma Stone, playwright, composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (to whom we owe the musical Hamilton), the artistic director of Louis Vuitton’s women’s collections, Nicolas Ghesquière, and Anna Wintour.
The exhibition was scheduled to open on May 7, to end on September 7.
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