It seems to be like Zendaya may have one more alternative to show heads along with her iconic style statements this spring.
The Oakland native was tapped as one of many 2024 Met Gala’s co-chairs on Thursday, Feb. 15. She joins co-chairs Jennifer Lopez, Unhealthy Bunny and Chris Hemsworth for this 12 months’s occasion, together with Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who has chaired or co-chaired because the mid-’90s.
The occasion, historically hosted on the primary Monday of Might at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Artwork, is scheduled for Might 6.
This 12 months’s theme is “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Style,” celebrating the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition of the identical title, which is able to characteristic roughly 250 items and take form round land, sea and sky. The costume code is “The Backyard of Time,” impressed by a 1962 quick story of the identical title by English author J.G. Ballard. The idea facilities round “fleeting magnificence,” in keeping with Vogue, and it’s secure to say fashionistas can anticipate loads of florals at this 12 months’s Gala.
Honorary chairs are Jonathan Anderson, artistic director for the Spanish luxurious home Loewe, and CEO of TikTok Shou Zi Chew.
Proceeds from the occasion, run by Wintour, makes up a majority of the institute’s annual finances. Because it started in 1948 it has raised greater than $223.5 million, in keeping with the Met.
This can mark Hemsworth’s first Met Gala, whereas it’ll be Unhealthy Bunny’s thirdand Lopez’s thirteenth time. Since 2015, Zendaya has attended the Met Gala, donning iconic seems to be like her light-up Cinderella-inspired costume for the 2019 “Camp: Notes on Style” Gala and her 2018 Joan of Arc-influenced search for the 2018 “Heavenly Our bodies: Style and the Catholic Creativeness” Gala. This 12 months can be her sixth look.
Simply final week Zendaya turned heads with a revealing Bottega Veneta costume at a “Dune: Half Two” pink carpet occasion in Mexico Metropolis.
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