NEW YORK 鈥� The star power is back. When the Met Gala returns in September, it will feature a heavy-hitting contingent of celebrity co-chairs: Actor Timoth茅e Chalamet, musician Billie Eilish, poet Amanda Gorman and tennis star Naomi Osaka.
Honorary chairs for the evening will be designer Tom Ford, sponsor Instagram's Adam Mosseri, and Vogue's Anna Wintour.
The museum made the announcement Monday on the traditional day of the Met Gala 鈥� the first Monday in May. Those plans, of course, were upended by the pandemic. The September 13 gala will be a more intimate affair, to be followed by a larger one on May 2, 2022. Both will launch a two-part exhibition, a survey of American fashion to be on view for almost a year.
鈥淚n America: A Lexicon of Fashion,鈥� opening Sept. 18, will celebrate the 75th anniversary of the museum鈥檚 Costume Institute and 鈥渆xplore a modern vocabulary of American fashion,鈥� the museum has said. Part two, 鈥淚n America: An Anthology of Fashion,鈥� will open in the museum鈥檚 popular American Wing period rooms on May 5, 2022, and will explore American fashion, with collaborations with film directors, by 鈥減resenting narratives that relate to the complex and layered histories of those spaces.鈥� Both parts will close on Sept. 5, 2022.
Filmmaker Melina Matsoukas (鈥淨ueen & Slim鈥�) has been commissioned to create an open-ended film to project in the galleries, with content changing during the course of the exhibition.
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As always, the exhibits will be the work of star curator Andrew Bolton. In a video preview Monday, Bolton noted how challenging the past year had been for the fashion community.
鈥淚t's been incredibly inspiring to see how designers have responded to the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, how they've found new outlets to express their creativity and new ways to present their collections,鈥� he said.
Bolton added that many designers had been at the vanguard of the discussion about diversity and inclusion: 鈥淭he social justice movements of last summer reinforced their commitment to these issues and also consolidated their leadership in advancing the conversation."
In addition to Matsoukas, other confirmed collaborators from the film world include cinematographer Bradford Young, whose projects have included 鈥淪elma鈥� and 鈥淲hen They See Us;鈥� production designers Nathan Crowley and Shane Valentino; and Franklin Leonard, film executive and founder of The Black List, a listing of top unproduced screenplays.
Jocelyn Noveck, The Associated Press
