Met Gala 2022: This will be the ‘dress code’ of the great fashion event

The Met Gala returns to its usual slot, the first Sunday in May. The day 2 of next month will be held ‘Oscars’ of fashion and at the bottom of the invitations that have already been sent to the hundreds of ‘vip’ guests is a small but vitally important inscription: the ‘dress code’, the dress code.

In 2020, for the ‘Camp: Notes on Fashion’, the topic was triviality. In 2021, for the ‘In America: A Lexicon of Fashion’ exhibition, it was all about American independence. And on May 2, 2022, for ‘In America: An Anthology of Fashion’, it will be asked gold glam and white tie.

Celebrities will be able to play dress up with clothes inspired by ‘Gilded age’, so fashionable now thanks to period series such as ‘The Golden Age’ (HBO Max) or also ‘The Bridgertons’ (Netflix). Or how well Martin Scorsese portrayed in 1993, in ‘The Age of Innocence’, with a very young Winona Ryderleading an all-star cast where they were also Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis.

Elise Taylor of ‘Vogue’, the magazine that organizes the event, with its director Anna Wintour at the helm, has explained the theme and its origins, writing that the colors of the time “were deep, rich jewel tones” and that “hats were a must for going out and were often adorned with feathers.” In short, the extravagance will be trading high on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on May 2.

‘The golden age, which lasted from 1870 to 1890 (at Mark Twain is credited with coining the term in 1873), was a time of unprecedented prosperity, cultural change, and full industrialization. In those years, the great fortunes that apparently emerged overnight, with prosperous businesses such as the incipient railway, built the skyscrapers of New York. By then Thomas Edison’s light bulb (1882) and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone (1876) were patentedFifth Avenue grew and grew and, in 1893 the magazine ‘Vogue’ was bornwith the mission of publishing the “point of view of the cultivated citizens of the world”.

Thanks to new electric and steam looms fashion experienced a time of excess, meters and meters of fabric. The women’s dresses combined many textiles, such as satin, silk, velvet, and fringe, plus sumptuous embellishments with lace, bows, ruffles, and ruffles. The colors were rich and deep, with a fondness for golden tones, like jewels.

On May 2nd we will see these proposals updated in the next Met Gala 2022, whose ‘hosts’ this time it will be the actors Regina King, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, in addition to the composer and producer of ‘Encanto’ Lin-Manuel Miranda. For their part, the designer Tom Ford, the director of Instagram Adam Mosseri and the director of ‘Vogue’, Anna Wintour, will again act as honorary co-chairs.