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Gala 2024: Celebrities, Red Carpet, Theme & More

Affectionately referred to as "fashions biggest night out,” the Met Gala 2024 is a fundraising benefit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City that is held every year on the first Monday in May.

The event welcomes stars, young creatives, and industry paragons. The 2024 Met Gala will take place on Monday, May 6 and will celebrate the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.”

The 2023 Met Gala theme honored Karl Lagerfeld, who was a regular attendee at The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute. During 2021 and 2022, the Costume Institute hosted its first two-part exhibition, on the theme of American fashion.

Part one, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” opened in the Anna Wintour Costume Center on September 18, 2021, and “In America: An Anthology of Fashion,” opened on May 5, 2022 in the period rooms of the American Wing.

The Met Gala is the one event that those of us fond of fawning over red carpet fashion look forward to every year.

Historically taking place every first Monday of May (unless a global pandemic forces a September reschedule), the 2024 Met Gala is just over three weeks away, taking place on Monday, May 6th.

Here's everything you need to know about fashion's most anticipated red carpet...

The 2023 Met Gala theme honored
What is the Met Gala and when does it happen?

Although the night is more commonly referred to as either the Met Ball or the Met Gala, the event is formally known as the Costume Institute Gala.

What is the Met Gala and when does it happen?

Although the night is more commonly referred to as either the Met Ball or the Met Gala, the event is formally known as the Costume Institute Gala. The gala is a fundraiser dedicated to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute – formally named The Anna Wintour Costume Center, in homage to the American Vogue's editor-in-chief, who has been a chair member of the museum's gala since 1995. The benefit was founded in 1948 by publicist Eleanor Lambert to encourage donations from New York's high society.