Met Gala 2024 Photos: Best Of The Red Carpet

The first Monday in May marks the opening of The Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, and theme to The Met Gala’s theme, Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.

The coveted golden ticket to fashion’s big night out will be attended by a select few guests including Hollywood royalty, politicians, chart-topping musicians, and power players from all walks of life. No awards will be handed out tonight, accolades are traded for applause and gasps instead. Guests will transform into living works of art, each vying for the coveted title of Best Dressed. 

The first to arrive on the carpet included Lily Gladstone, Da’Vine Joy Randolph, Pamela Anderson, Sydney Sweeney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Dua Lipa, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Lana Del Rey, Nicole Kidman, Kylie Minogue, Luca Guadagnino, Keke Palmer, Ariana Grande, Riley Keough, Nicholas Galitzine, Donald Glover, Demi Moore, Steven Yeun, Greta Lee, Taylor Russell, Lily James, Penélope Cruz, Dan Levy, Greta Gerwig, Josh O’Connor, Mindy Kaling, Zoe Saldana, Tyla, Ayo Edebiri, Colman Domingo, and Stray Kids.

Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth, Bad Bunny, and Anna Wintour will serve as the evening’s co-chairs. The dress code for the evening will be “The Garden of Time,” and Shou Chew, Chief Executive Officer of TikTok, and Jonathan Anderson, Creative Director of LOEWE, will serve as honorary chairs. 

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Approximately 250 garments and accessories spanning four centuries will be on view at the Costume Institute’s Spring 2024 exhibition, visually united by iconography related to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and transience of fashion and a vehicle to examine the cyclical themes of rebirth and renewal.

The exhibition will be on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue from May 10 to September 2, 2024.

Scroll through the photo gallery for up-to-date photos from the red carpet.