The annual Met Gala 2020, the fashion party which benefits the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, will not be held on its scheduled date of May 4.
The
annual
Met
Gala
2020,
the
fashion
party
which
benefits
the
Metropolitan
Museum
of
Art's
Costume
Institute,
will
not
be
held
on
its
scheduled
date
of
May
4.
Met
Gala
co-chair
and
Vogue
magazine
editor-in-chief
Anna
Wintour
shared
the
news
in
her
Monday
column
for
the
magazine.
"Due
to
the
unavoidable
and
responsible
decision
by
the
Metropolitan
Museum
to
close
its
doors,
'About
Time',
and
the
opening
night
gala,
will
not
take
place
on
the
date
scheduled,"
Wintour
wrote.
A
new
date
has
not
been
set.
This
year's
theme
for
the
gala
was
"About
Time:
Fashion
and
Duration".
The
likes
of
Meryl
Streep,
Emma
Stone,
Lin-Manuel
Miranda
and
Louis
Vuitton's
creative
director
Nicolas
Ghesquiere
were
set
as
the
hosts
for
the
event.
According
to
the
museum's
website,
the
exhibit
was
set
to
be
open
from
May
7
to
September
7
and
explore
"how
clothes
generate
temporal
associations
that
conflate
the
past,
present,
and
future" from
1870
to
the
present.
Last
week,
the
Met
announced
that
its
museums
--
The
Met
Fifth
Avenue,
The
Met
Breuer
and
The
Met
Cloisters
--
would
be
closed
temporarily
starting
Friday
"to
support
New
York
City's
efforts
to
contain
the
spread
of
COVID-19".
The
COVID-19
has
led
to
an
almost
complete
shutdown
of
the
Hollywood
film
industry.
The
virus,
which
originated
in
China's
Wuhan
city,
was
declared
a
pandemic
by
the
World
Health
Organisation
(WHO)
last
week.