{"id":24967,"date":"2025-04-18T14:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumhack.com\/?p=24967"},"modified":"2025-04-18T14:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T18:05:55","slug":"the-history-of-the-met-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumhack.com\/the-history-of-the-met-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Ultimate Guide To The History Of The Met Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have community theatre to thank for the Met Gala. I’m dead serious. The kind of theatre where your niece plays Drunkard #3 in <\/span>Les Mis\u00e9rables,<\/span><\/i> and you spend the entire second act wondering what the hell is happening because the children are whisper-singing over a haunted karaoke track. That kind.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fast forward a few decades, and now the Met Gala raises upwards of $26 million a year to fund the Met’s Costume Institute, home to more than 35,000 costumes spanning seven centuries. That is seven centuries of lewks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But how did we go from a community theatre on the Lower East Side to Jared Leto carrying his disembodied head up the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? A publicist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2728This is your chaotic guide to the history of the Met Gala, from its origins to its transformations to how we got to the 2025 Met Gala theme of\u00a0Superfine: Tailoring Black Style<\/em><\/strong>, with all the commentary on the unhinged outfits that make the Met Gala the cultural fever dream we can’t get enough of. \u2728<\/span><\/p>\n

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Give My Regards To\u2026<\/h2>\n

Let me boil this pot down for ya:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n