Though the event has sparked conversation and marked evolution in the fashion industry for more than 75 years, the Met Gala has only featured a theme since 1978. The dress code complements each theme, which is determined by the Costume Institute’s annual spring exhibition.
2018: ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’
2017: ‘Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between’
2016: ‘Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology’
2015: ‘China: Through the Looking Glass’
2014: ‘Charles James: Beyond Fashion’
2013: ‘Punk: Chaos to Couture’
2012: ‘Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations’
2011: ‘Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty’
2010: ‘American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity’
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