The Metropolitan Museum's gala, worldly event of the year in New York, has been postponed sine die to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, Anna Wintour, high priestess of fashion who presides over its organization, announced on Monday.
The editor-in-chief of Vogue linked this postponement to "the responsible and inevitable decision of the Metropolitan Museum to close its doors" until further notice, in an open letter published on the magazine's website.
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- Vogue Magazine (@voguemagazine) March 16, 2020Scheduled initially on May 4, the Met Gala is a charity evening organized each year for the benefit of the Costume Insitute, a museum department with its own budget and which receives no funding from the Met. Created in 1948, the gala was for a long time an event reserved for very high society in New York, the main source of patronage for the Met.
An event co-chaired by celebrities
It gradually opened up in the 1970s, before transforming after the arrival at the head of Anna Wintour in 1995. It made it a celebrity event, adapted to the era of social networks and democratization of fashion, to the point that it now rivals the Oscars.
The gala is to be co-chaired by American actress Meryl Streep, actress Emma Stone, playwright, composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda (the musical "Hamilton"), artistic director of Louis Vuitton women's collections, Nicolas Ghesquière, and Anna Wintour.
The exhibition was scheduled to open on May 7, and to end on September 7.
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