Learn about 2024 Met Gala theme"sleeping beauties"

The Met Gala, often referred to as “fashion’s biggest night,” is fast approaching. But what exactly is this event and why does it generate so much enthusiasm every year?

On the night of first Monday of May, i.e. May 6, the worlds of cinema, fashion, music, sports, politics and social media will come together to grace the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at his annual Costume Institute benefit.

Upon entering the fashion museum, guests walk past what is, usually special for Met Gala, an incredibly huge floral arrangement in the lobby, with perhaps an orchestra playing nearby, and head to a cocktail. Or, they head to the exhibition this biggest night.

 Cocktails take place around 6-8 p.m., followed by dinner, but the most famous – or those who plan to make the biggest entrance – sometimes come (fashionably) later.

Celebrities from around the world will gather for cocktails, dinner and exploring the latest exhibit, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”

What does this year's fashion’s biggest night Met Gala theme mean?

This year's theme revolves around "sleeping beauties", but has little to do with fairy tales.

“Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion,” the title of the accompanying exhibition, refers to garments from the Costume Institute collection that have been “sleeping” and will now be on display, some too fragile to hang upright. afraid of disintegrating.

All eyes will be on Zendaya, the internet's favorite fashion biggest night icon and method dresser. This will be Zendaya's first Met Gala appearance since 2019, when she turned heads as sleeping beauties Cinderella, with a bright ballgown and her stylist Law Roach as her “fairy godmother.”

Curator Andrew Bolton selected 250 pieces spanning four centuries.

The fashion’s biggest night theme is accompanied by a dress code: this year, it is “Le Jardin du Temps”. The theme and dress code are often interpreted… loosely. So you may see an aurora on the carpet after all.

With Taylor Swift best dressed all the time, global pop has found its queen

“Taylor Swift, The Eras Tour”, a film shot during concerts that the best dressed American pop star gave this summer in California, as part of her phenomenon tour, is released and seen as sleeping beauties in theaters in more than a hundred countries . 

At 33, she is at the top of world pop. John Gapper, columnist for the “Financial Times”, recalls the talent, flair and will it took to get there.

In lyris of her song The Man, Taylor Swift, my favorite superstar, considers that she would have been more respected artistically if she had been a man. “They'd say I hustled, put in the work / They wouldn't shake their heads and question how much of this I deserve” really deserved”).

That being said, or sung, the best dressed singer doesn't seem to let herself get down. It was around the time of the release of Taylor Swift's second album, fifteen years ago, that I became hooked on her addictive genius; I listened to Fearless on repeat in my car all year while traveling the United States. I never imagined for a second that this talented sleeping beauties young woman of 19 years old, singer and songwriter of pop but also country, would reign uncontested over the world of music. No doubt I had also underestimated sleeping beauties.

Taylor Swift [completed the American leg of her tour called “The Eras Tour” on August 9. Hundreds of thousands of fans invaded the cities where she performed, stormed hotels and restaurants, and spent an average of $1,240. It is estimated that she earned 13 million euros per concert, and attracted an average of 54,000 spectators per performance. But Taylor Swift does not intend to stop there: she is continuing her international tour, and millions of “Swifties” [the nick-name of best dressed fans] have already snapped up tickets online.

Nothing best dressed is due to chance

It is certainly a phenomenon, but nothing is due to chance. If  being best dressed, Taylor Swift probably did not imagine experiencing such a sleeping beauties triumph at the age of 33, it was she who laid the foundations for her success: “Someday, I’ll be big enough so.