The Met Gala Is Back On. Here’s Everything We Know So Far

It’s been just over a year since it was first reported that the 2020 Met Gala would be postponed due to the pandemic. Two months later, Vogue made the official announcement that fashion’s biggest night would be canceled completely. Though the About Time: Fashion and Duration exhibition opened later in the year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, no pink carpet was rolled out to celebrate it, nor did Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Zendaya, or any of the other stars who frequent the Met Gala, show up in fashion fit for the occasion. According to Page Six, though, the 2021 soirée won’t meet the same fate. 

On Thursday, the publication reported that this year’s Met Gala will take place, and no, it won’t exist only on Instagram like this year’s award shows. That said, it won’t be on the first Monday in May as we’ve grown to expect, either. Instead, the benefit, which raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and is known in the industry as the “Oscars of Fashion,” will take place during New York Fashion Week in September. 

Ahead, everything we know (so far) about the 2021 Met Gala.

When will the 2021 Met Gala take place?

The gala will reportedly take place on September 13, 2021. According to Page Six, the date was changed in the hopes that, with the current vaccine rollout, it will be safe to gather by then. Whether or not that will turn out to be true is yet to be determined. Furthermore, the date apparently could not be held on the first Monday in September due to the fact that it’s Labor Day, and national holidays trump even Vogue’s Anna Wintour. 

Who will host the 2021 Met Gala?

According to Page Six sources, Vogue is considering Inauguration Day poet and the magazine’s May cover star Amanda Gorman for its 2021 Met Gala host. Tom Ford, the CFDA chairman and designer, is said to be joining her. Of course, Wintour will also be a host. 

What will the 2021 Met Gala theme be?

The theme for the 2021 Met Gala hasn’t yet been released, though, given that we’re still five months away from the alleged event date, not to mention the special circumstances this year, we’re not all that surprised about the delay in the announcement. Insert *only (About) Time will tell* reference. 

Prior to 2020, Met Gala themes included Camp: Notes on Fashion, which saw Lady Gaga, Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, and Ezra Miller, among others, don fashion at its most over-the-top, in 2019; Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination in 2018, which was unofficially won by Rihanna, when she showed up wearing a Pope costume by Maison Margiela; and Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between in 2017, which featured co-host Katy Perry in custom Maison Martin Margiela, Lily Collins in Giambattista Valli, and Zoë Kravitz in Oscar de la Renta.

We will update this story as more information regarding the 2021 Met Gala is confirmed.

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The Significance Behind The Complementary-Colored Costumes Of The Nevers

If you were to get all your friends together in one room — wishful thinking thanks to the pandemic — it’s unlikely that any two members of the group would dress the exact same; yet, after years of friendship, their looks will appear harmonious next to each other. Such is the case on HBO’s new Victorian-era show The Nevers, which centers around a group of women in London who get shunned to an orphanage after they suddenly develop supernatural abilities following a mysterious event. The strong friendships portrayed on the show, formed as a result of the new reality and being rejected by society, is what drew Game Of Thrones costume designer Michele Clapton to the project.

“I loved the idea of this group of strong women, all incredibly individual, with [their own] strengths and weaknesses,” Clapton tells Refinery29. Though all very different, she wanted their costumes to complement each other, which led her to create a carefully curated color palette for best friends Amalia (played by Outlander’s Laura Donnelly) and Penance (Ann Skelly).

“I had the idea to darken Amalia’s color palette and play on the softer tones of Penance’s,” says Clapton. For Amalia, she chose hues like burgundy, dark brown, green, and blue for her costumes, in order to symbolize her tough exterior and fighter mentality. Dresses and coats in the moody hues became the expected getup for the brooding and daring character. Just because she’s rough around the edges though, doesn’t mean that Amalia’s style is overlooked though. From fighting off attackers in a lavish gown at the opera to riding away from the scene of a crime in a hand-painted corset and skirt, she never sacrifices her fashion. “Though Amalia is quite tough, there’s this idea that she actually really loves her clothes and they are quite feminine, but they are really strong,” Clapton says. 

In contrast, Clapton created a softer color scheme for Penance: neutral colors like camel and oatmeal combined with pastel pinks and blues. Penance’s style leans into the cottagecore aesthetic, with puff sleeves, embroidered lace, and bow and floral details. Even when she’s in her workshop, her workwear appears delicate thanks to Clapton’s use of soft materials in various shades of light gray. 

The duo’s abilities are polar opposites, too — Amalia has premonitions, while Penance can visualize energy currents, which she uses to create inventions like motorcars and tasers hidden inside of umbrellas. “You’re often not best friends with your girlfriend because she’s exactly like you, and I like that element,” Clapton says while explaining the different costume choices for the two. 

That same sartorial dichotomy is present in the other friendship at the center of The Nevers. The orphanage’s newest member, Myrtle Haplisch (Viola Prettejohn) — whose ability allows her to understand every language, but only speak an incomprehensible mixture of them — comes from very little money. Yet, she quickly forms a bond with Primrose Chattoway (Anna Devlin), a former member of high society who was sent away by her parents after becoming a giant. While Myrtle often wears subdued colors that try to hide what appear to be hand-me-down dresses and outerwear, Primrose’s high society past is reflected in her lavish and extravagant pastel-colored, tulle-covered dresses. 

Though the bonds present in the orphanage will be inevitably tested throughout the first season of The Nevers — constant threats of danger will do that to friendships — if Clapton’s costumes are any indication, they’ll only get stronger with every new challenge.

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