Non uno, ma due Met Ball Gala, su due temi diversi, con due sfavillanti party. Dopo che l’edizione 2020 è stata cancellata causa pandemia – il Costume Institute ha comunque aperto la mostra About Time: Fashion and Duration – l’evento più importante della moda americana ha deciso di raddoppiare. La prima parte della mostra, intitolata In America: A Lexicon of Fashion, aprirà i battenti il 18 settembre 2021. La seconda, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, è prevista per il 5 maggio 2022. Entrambe le edizioni inaugureranno l’apertura di una mostra pensata in due capitoli differenti, entrambi dedicati al glamour a stelle e strisce. Nell’eccitante attesa, sfoglia la gallery con i 43 look più pazzeschi delle precedenti edizioni.
- 2019: Camp: Notes on Fashion, Lady Gaga nell’abito-matrioska di Brandon Maxwell
- 2018: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination, Blake Lively in Atelier Versace
- 2017: Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between, Katy Perry in Maison Margiela
- 2016: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology, Claire Danes in Zac Posen
- 2015: China: Through the Looking Glass, Karen Elson in Dolce & Gabbana
- 2014: Charles James: Beyond Fashion, Blake Lively in Gucci
- 2013: Punk: Chaos to Couture, Miley Cyrus in Marc Jacobs
- 2012: Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations, January Jones in Versace
- 2011: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty, Beyonce in Emilio Pucci
- 2010: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, Anne Hathaway in Valentino
- 2009: The Model As Muse: Embodying Fashion, Kate Moss in Marc Jacobs
- 2008: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy, Amber Valletta in Versace
- 2007: Poiret: King of Fashion, Cate Blanchett in Givenchy
- 2006: AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion, Victoria Beckham in Roland Mouret
- 2005: The House of Chanel, Selma Blair in Chanel
- 2004: Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century, Scarlett Johansson in Calvin Klein
- 2003: Goddess: The Classical Mode, Nicole Kidman in Gucci
- 2001: Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years, Renée Zellweger in Oleg Cassini
- 1999: Rock Style, Jennifer Lopez (con Puff Daddy)
- 1998: Cubism and Fashion, Claudia Schiffer
- 1997: Gianni Versace, Salma Hayek in Versace
- 1996: Christian Dior, Lady Diana in Dior
- 1995: Haute Couture, Sarah Jessica Parker
- 1994: Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western Dress, Veronica Webb
- 1993: Diana Vreeland: Immoderate Style, Linda Evangelista
- 1992: Fashion and History: A Dialogue, Christy Turlington
- 1991: Joan Rivers
- 1990: Théâtre de la Mode: Fashion Dolls, Naomi Campbell in Versace
- 1989: The Age of Napoleon: Costume From Revolution To Empire, Anna Wintour
- 1988: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress 1837–1877, Gina Lollobrigida
- 1987: In Style: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Costume Institute, Barbara Walters
- 1986: Dance, Lynda Carter
- 1985: Costumes of Royal India, Cher in Bobbie Mackie
- 1984: Man and the Horse, Nancy Kissinger
- 1983: Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design, Diana Vreeland
- 1982: La Belle Époque, Raquel Welch
- 1981: The Eighteenth Century Woman, Iman in Calvin Klein
- 1980: The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of China, the Ch’ing Dynasty, Paloma Picasso
- 1979: Fashions of the Habsburg Era: Austria-Hungary, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in Valentino
- 1977: Vanity Fair: A Treasure Trove: Nancy Regan
- 1976: The Glory of Russian Costume, Bianca Jagger
- 1975: American Women of Style, Naomi Sims
- 1974: Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design, Marisa Berenson