The Met Gala challenge: During lockdown, Instagrammers recreate Met Gala’s most iconic looks

For the primary time within the 72 years since its inception, the Met Gala, each style lover’s utopia, was cancelled on account of the coronavirus pandemic. And though the occasion was taken on-line, and transformed right into a YouTube dwell stream that includes music and style, with out the drama of the excessive outfits, it simply can’t really feel just like the Met Gala. The occasion which was to be hosted by Conde Nast inventive director and Vogue journal’s editor-in-chief, Anna Wintour was set to the theme, “About Time: Fashion and Duration”, and would showcase the journey of style from 1870, the yr the museum was based, to current occasions. And for those who’re feeling low about lacking out on the purple carpet appears to be like, Vogue teamed up with Pose actor and Met Gala purple carpet champion, Billy Porter, to current the sensible thought of the Met Gala problem. For the problem, persons are requested to recreate their favorite Met Gala red-carpet appears to be like at house and submit their photos on Instagram with the hashtag #MetGalaProblem. The winners shall be picked by group Vogue and Billy, and have their pictures featured on the Instagram accounts of the Met Museum, the Met Costume Institute and Vogue.

The problem has led to a flurry of very enjoyable and fascinating pictures on Instagram, with some very cute kids posing as their favourites celebrities. Here are a number of the finest Met Gala problem posts:

 

 

 

 

 

The Met Gala is a fund-raiser for the annual style exhibit which is curated by the Costume Institute, the Metropolitan museum’s style division, which can be the one curatorial division which has to fund itself. In early March, Anna Wintour wrote on Vogue.com, “Due to the unavoidable and responsible decision by the Metropolitan Museum to close its doors, About Time, and the opening night gala will be postponed to a later date.” Adding that the journal would nonetheless be previewing the “extraordinary exhibition” in its May situation.

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