Met Gala 2021 and 2022: two different events to celebrate American fashion

The pandemic’s breakout, at the beginning of 2020, caused a lot of restrictions and limitations, also in the fashion world.

All planned events were canceled, from fashion weeks to all the various celebrations; but I will talk about one of the most expected and followed red carpet, where different designers’ creations compete to be the most talked about and photographed: the Met Gala.

In 2020 on May the 3rd the event was missing, but the organization decided to announce two different galas, themed differently. The connection between them will be a new perspective and analysis about American fashion in contemporary times and the past.

The first celebration and exhibition “America: a Lexicon of Fashion” will be on Fashion week’s last day, on September the 13th, and it will be about the established and young designers’ creations. The decision was taken after the major crisis that hit the American fashion world, caused by the pandemic eruption and by eradicated stereotypes that praise more European fashion.

The second exposition will take place on May the 3rd in 2022, and it will be about “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”: how the American style has evolved from the beginning to analyze which were the influences. The real newness is that there will be exposed ALL the American designers and dressmakers, no matter which is your community or is your origin.

An example can be Elizabeth Keckley, a woman of whom parents were slaves, who became an activist and the then First Lady’s, Mary Todd Lincoln, dressmaker.

The last year was full of issues and changes, that have affected the evolution and progress, in this case, in the American fashion world; giving a voice to an important history’s side, ignored and not considered till now.

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A past interesting article:

Waiting for the MET GALA 2020: the OSCARs of fashion