The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute has announced the dress code for this year’s Met Gala: “Fashion is Art.”
The museum announced the dress code Monday, along with this year’s celebrity committee and co-chairs.
According to an announcement in Vogue, the directive is meant to reflect the ethos of “Costume Art,” which explores the “centrality of the dressed body” through depictions and interpretations of the human form in the Met’s extensive collection.
The dress code encourages guests to think about how designers can use their bodies as a blank canvas.
“What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body,” Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge of the Costume Institute, said in a statement. “It’s the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was.”
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