Met Gala 2021: Timothee Chalamet, Billie Eilish to co-host together with Naomi Osaka, Amanda Gorman

By PTI
NEW YORK: Oscar-nominated actor Timothee Chalamet and a number of Grammy-winning musician Billie Eilish can be part of this yr’s Met Gala Host Committee together with tennis champion Naomi Osaka and poet Amanda Gorman.

Organised by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the fundraising gala is scheduled to be held right here on September 13, pending authorities COVID-19 tips.

The occasion marks the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual style exhibit.

On its official Twitter web page, the Met stated the Costume Institute’s major supply of annual funding — “will celebrate the upcoming two-part exhibition ‘In America’ focusing on the history of American fashion and honoring the 75th anniversary of The Costume Institute”.

The gala will return stay and in individual this yr to launch a two-part exhibition on American style, one in all which can embody the involvement of assorted movie administrators within the staging of the exhibit on the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Each a part of the exhibition — one opening later this yr, the opposite subsequent spring — will get its personal gala: The September 13 gala can be a smaller-scale occasion with COVID-19 protocols, and can launch “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion”, opening on September 18, reported Deadline.

Next spring’s gala is about for May 2, 2022, launching the second a part of the exhibition titled “In America: An Anthology of Fashion”, opening May 5.

Both elements of the exhibition will shut September 5, 2022.

The Met has additionally set dressmaker Tom Ford, Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour because the night’s honorary chairs of this yr’s occasion.