Tennis legend Roger Federer, singer Dua Lipa and actresses Michaela Coel and Penélope Cruz will headline the upcoming gala at the Metropolitan Museum, a major social gathering in New York, where stars parade in extravagant outfits.
The foursome will accompany the high priestess of fashion and editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour, who presides over each edition of the event, to the Met stands, the New York museum announced in a press release.
As much a celebrity parade as it is a social and philanthropic soiree, the “Met Gala” is the main source of funding for the museum’s fashion department (The Costume Institute), with an estimated total of more than $16 million in 2021.
“In Honor of Karl”
Every year, the event takes place on the first Monday of May and accompanies the opening of the great exhibition of the “Costume Institute”, dedicated in 2023 to the designer who died in 2019, Karl Lagerfeld.
The dress code for the evening will be: “in honor of Karl”.
It is generally based on this imposed theme that the great couturiers and luxury brands design the most original or extravagant outfits worn by international stars to stand out on the red carpet, in front of clouds of photographers.
The choice of the presidents of the gala is also scrutinized in the world of fashion and celebrities. Joining Roger Federer, a tennis legend who retired in 2022, is the Spanish actress Penélope Cruz, who had walked the Karl Lagerfeld parade.
The other two co-chairs are rising stars of music and fiction: the British and Albanian singer Dua Lipa, known for the hit “Levitating” and who at 27 has six Brit Awards and three Grammy Awards, as well as the actress and screenwriter Michaela Coel, 35, author of the series ‘I can destroy you’ about the story of a rape and its consequences, and who plays one of the characters in the latest Marvel movie, ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’.
Source: BFM TV
