The Met Gala returns in 2021 with a two-part American fashion exhibit

The Metropolitan Museum of Art officially announced that Met Gala with Vogue will return. The museum sent out a press release on Monday that the exhibit – which coincides with Vogue’s ball – will open in two parts, with a year between them.

After being postponed and then eventually canceled in 2020, the Met Gala is making its return for 2021, as officially announced by The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday. The “Super Bowl of Fashion” or “Oscars of the East Coast” is scheduled to come back in the fall – September 13, specifically, pending government guidelines- a few months after its traditional first Monday in May date.

The Costume Institute announced the exhibit “About Time: Fashion and Duration” in October 2019 before indefinitely postponing the launch event in March of last year and then canceling entirely two months later, though Vogue marked the moment virtually with a fundraising YouTube Livestream entitled “A Moment with the Met.” Along with Wintour, the event’s co-chairs were set to be Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, Emma Stone, Meryl Streep, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

The exhibit for part 2

“In America: An Anthology of Fashion” opens May 5, 2022, three days after the second Met Gala, examining the men and women’s dress from the 18th century until the present.

“Part Two will further investigate the evolving language of American fashion through a series of collaborations with American film directors who will visualize the unfinished stories inherent in The Met’s period rooms,” Bolton’s statement concluded.

“This two-part exhibition will consider how fashion reflects evolving notions of identity in America and will explore a multitude of perspectives through presentations that speak to some of the complexities of history with powerful immediacy,” added Max Hollein, the Marina Kellen French Director of The Met. “In looking at the past through this lens, we can consider the aesthetic and cultural impact of fashion on historical aspects of American life.”