The Annual Met Gala, The Fashion Party Which Benefits The Metropolitan Museum Of Art”s Costume Institute, Will Not Be Held On Its Scheduled Date Of May 4.
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| Updated on: 17 Mar 2020, 01:59:32 PM
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Los Angeles:
The annual Met Gala, the style celebration which advantages the Metropolitan Museum of Art”s Costume Institute, is not going to be held on its scheduled date of May 4. Met Gala co-chair and Vogue journal editor-in-chief Anna Wintour shared the information in her Monday column for the journal.
“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 brand new date has not been set.
This yr”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 inventive director Nicolas Ghesquiere had been set because the hosts for the occasion.
According to the museum”s web site, the exhibit was set to be open from May 7 to September 7 and discover “how clothes generate temporal associations that conflate the past, present, and future” from 1870 to the current.
Last week, the Met introduced that its museums — The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Breuer and The Met Cloisters — can be closed briefly beginning Friday “to support New York City”s efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19″.
The COVID-19 has led to virtually full shutdown of Hollywood movie business.
The virus, which originated in China”s Wuhan metropolis, was declared pandemic by World Health Organisation (WHO) final week.
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First Published : 17 Mar 2020, 01:59:32 PM