Everything you need to know about Met Gala 2024

A-listers are getting acceptable to sashay down the reddish carpet for fashion's biggest nighttime retired - the Met Gala.

Actors, musicians and concern magnates volition beryllium among those dressing to impressment astatine the Metropolitan Museum of Art fundraiser successful New York City.

The 2024 variation of the black-tie extravaganza is inspired by The Garden of Time, a abbreviated communicative by the British New Wave sci-fi writer JG Ballard.

The yearly gala raises wealth for the museum's Costume Institute.

This year's taxable has been chosen to complement the Costume Institute's forthcoming grounds Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.

The BBC didn't get a summons either - but here's a speedy usher to the event.

Those extracurricular of fashion's interior sanctum ne'er get to spot the backstage cocktail and meal events that comprise this multimillion-dollar fundraiser.

But manner critics everyplace bash get to ticker their favourite actors, artistes and influencers locomotion a lengthy reddish carpet.

Guests statesman arriving astatine the Met and locomotion up the iconic New York landmark's expansive staircase to the click of a 1000 cameras from 18:00 EST (22:00 GMT).

But expect precocious arrivals - we're looking astatine you, Rihanna.

Fashion mag Vogue, which organises the event, volition exclusively livestream the reddish carpet connected its website and each of its integer platforms. Streams volition besides beryllium disposable to US viewers connected NBC's Peacock streaming level and E!.

International viewers tin tune successful via TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and X.

You tin travel the BBC's unrecorded blog for updates.

The gala and its detonation successful popularity has been overseen by Vogue's planetary editorial manager Anna Wintour.

The Met Gala's taxable often serves arsenic a prelude to the Costume Institute's outpouring 2024 accumulation - and this twelvemonth is nary different.

The grounds - Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion - uses exertion to "breathe caller life" into garments from the Met's archives truthful fragile they tin nary longer beryllium worn and indispensable stay nether glass.

Artificial intelligence, computer-generated imagery, X-rays and soundscapes volition beryllium utilized successful "creative and immersive activations designed to convey the smells, sounds, textures, and motions" of these items, according to the museum's website.

The formal codification for Monday's reddish carpet is The Garden of Time, which shares its sanction with a dystopian communicative written successful 1962 by JG Ballard, successful which the past bastion of the super-rich is overrun by a working-class mob of the "great unwashed".

Commentators are calling it an exploration of rebirth and renewal, and of humanity's inclination towards cycles of instauration and destruction.

For an lawsuit that celebrates affluence and excess successful an property of economical uncertainty and planetary volatility, the taxable whitethorn dependable a small connected the nose.

The abbreviated reply is no. Fashion's biggest nighttime is simply a cocktail and meal enactment for astir 400 to 450 invited guests.

Wealthy celebrities and brands drawback up each the disposable tickets and tables astatine the foundation benefit.

An idiosyncratic summons goes for astir $75,000 (£60,000), much than the mean down outgo connected a house.

A 10-seat array starts astatine $350,000.

In 1995, Ms Wintour's archetypal twelvemonth overseeing the event, a summons outgo conscionable $1,000.

The gala raised astir $22m past year, erstwhile its taxable paid tribute to precocious plan fable Karl Lagerfeld.

Ms Wintour has recruited 4 large names to service arsenic co-chairs astatine this year's event.

They are Latino euphony stars Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez, US histrion Zendaya and Australian histrion Chris Hemsworth, making his debut astatine the gala.

Co-chairs assistance beforehand the event, program its taxable and dinner, and get astatine the opening of its reddish carpet portion.

Serving arsenic honorary chairs are Shou Zi Chew, main enforcement serviceman of TikTok, and Jonathan Anderson, the originative manager of the Loewe's manner house.

TikTok - presently nether the menace of a nationwide prohibition - and Loewe's are besides sponsoring the gala and exhibition.

The impermanent database is ever apical secret, but respective celebrities person already confirmed their attendance.

Rihanna has said she volition beryllium there, and we tin expect her to beryllium accompanied by her rapper-partner A$AP Rocky.

We tin besides expect to spot J-Lo's important other, Ben Affleck, arsenic good arsenic Zendaya's antheral Tom Holland.

Others to look retired for see Ayo Edebiri, Dua Lipa, Emma Stone, Lily Gladstone, Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Kate Moss, Blake Lively, Lil Nas X and Lea Michele.

Power mates Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are not tipped to attend. Neither is Jared Leto, who often stands retired among the antheral attendees.

Speculation is besides rife implicit the likelihood of appearances by Sean "Diddy" Combs, who is facing aggregate intersexual misconduct lawsuits, and Kendrick Lamar, who is locked successful a heated warfare of words with rival rapper Drake.