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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively attend the “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between” Costume Institute Gala at Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images

After the Met Gala was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, fashion’s biggest night returned in September 2021 with a smaller-than-average gathering at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. On Monday, May 2, the Met Gala will will be back on its signature night, the first Monday in May, to raise funds for the museum’s Costume Institute. As May 2 nears, catch up on all the details about this year’s soirée and don’t forget to tune in to graziamagazine.com for in-depth coverage during the event and @graziausa on Instagram live straight from the red carpet. 

On April 11, Vogue announced that this year’s annual Gala celebrating the Costume Institute’s In America: An Anthology of Fashion exhibition dress code will be white-tie “gilded glamour.” Attendees will step out in their best regencycore aesthetic that will embody the grandeur of high society. Although the theme is ultimately left up to the guest’s own interpretation, we can expect to see over-the-top extravagant gowns typical of the Gilded Age, bold colors, brilliant corsetry and dazzling jewels galore as A-listers take the Met’s grand staircase.

Last month, the institution announced that this year’s co-chairs will include Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda. The stars will join the Gala’s honorary hosts, Anna Wintour, Tom Ford and Head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri, to greet attendees at the entrance of the Met.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 13: Regina King attends The 2021 Met Gala Celebrating In America: A Lexicon Of Fashion at Metropolitan Museum of Art on September 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

This year’s Anthology of Fashion is the second installment of the In America: A Lexicon of Fashion exhibition, which debuted in September. The Costume Institute will rotate out the 2021 exhibition highlighting some of America’s most prominent fashions, with pieces from a new assortment of designers to show the diversity that encapsulates American fashion. 

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 07: Blake Lively at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Jackson Lee/Getty Images)

The current In America: A Lexicon of Fashion exhibition, featuring heritage brands like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, as well as new designers like Christopher John Rogers and Collina Strada, is on display in the Anna Wintour Costume Center until the end of March. The Anthology of Fashion exhibition will open to the public on May 7 through September 5, 2022.