Met Gala 2024: Once again the world’s biggest mega fashion event Met Gala has started from May 6. The Met Gala is a charity event. Which raises funds for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Big celebs not only from India but from all over the world participate in its annual fashion exhibition. In this event, Alia’s stunning hand-crafted floral saree is creating magic on people’s eyes. At the same time, you will get to see cool, beautiful and strange outfits of other celebs in this event in the world of fashion.
Not only this year but every year the Met Gala red carpet dress of celebs becomes a topic of discussion on social media. But have you ever wondered what this Met Gala event means besides posing on the red carpet on the steps of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art? There is always a curiosity among the Indian people regarding this incident that what is it?
How did a fashion show in a museum begin?
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met for short, is the fourth largest museum in the world. The museum has a costume institute which was a separate institute till 1946 and was named ‘Museum of Costume Art’. When the Costume Institute merged with the Met, it was decided that it would handle its own funding.
It is believed that there is a difficult question behind this – ‘Should fashion be considered an art or not? But the other side of the question is that the fashion or costume of every time is a reflection of the literature, society and sometimes politics of that time. And historians also believe that fashion is also a major link in understanding the development of human civilization. For example, the 1976 Met Gala themed ‘The Glory of Russian Costume’ included the shoes of ‘Peter the Great’ and the silver wedding dress of ‘Catherine the Great’. Both these things are not only fashion but also a deep part of history. Iconic costumes from many classic films are also a part of understanding the design process and its art.
But if we want to understand the importance of this institution, then it can be understood that more than 35 thousand fashion pieces of the last 600 years have been preserved and stored here. More than 50 ancient designs preserved and preserved by the Costume Institute are on display at the Met Gala 2024 itself. Along with this, more than 250 outfits have been displayed. Many of which have been recreated through sound-scaping and digital .mation.
This costume institute bears the salaries of its regular working staff and all the expenses of the fabulous exhibitors, for which a grand charity event is org.zed which we call ‘Met Gala’. The event becomes even more important because the Met’s Costume Institute is a self-funded department, but it also donates a large portion of its revenue to the Man Museum.
How do strange costumes make great money-making photos?
The ticket price of Met Gala 2024 is 75 thousand dollars i.e. more than Rs 62 lakh. Whereas the charge for a table of 10 seats is 350 thousand dollars i.e. more than Rs 2 crore 92 lakh. As per the importance of the Costume Institute, they have designed the entire setup of the Met Gala. This is the event in the fashion world where everyone who knows the ‘F’ of fashion is watching. This means that if you are a designer or fashion brand and your design or product is on the Met Gala red carpet, it can reach every eye in the world. All proceeds from these tickets go directly to the Met Gala.
This whole thing is like having a celebrity role model in mathematics. That’s why most of the celebs you see at the Met Gala have designer-sponsored tickets or tables. The designer buys a table and fills it with all the celebs he has styled. However, some celebs also buy their own tickets. But this also does not mean that anyone can become a part of this event by spending Rs 62 lakh.
Vogue magazine editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has been chairing the Met Gala since 1999. He himself prepares the guest list of which celebrities and which designers are to be invited to the event. While making the guest list, full care is taken to keep away celebs who have mutual conflicts. Who should sit together and who should not be a part of which table. Every guest knows who has to sit where. You may be surprised to know that couples are not seated together at the Met Gala. After all, this gathering is a social gathering among fashion lovers, not a wedding reception.
