(New York) Actress Zendaya and Puerto Rican prince of Latin rap Bad Bunny are among the co-chairs of the next Metropolitan Museum gala on May 6, a major social event in New York, where the stars parade in extravagant outfits , the museum announced Thursday.
The two stars will form a quartet with singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, as well as Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, famous for his role as Thor in the Marvel universe films. Like every year, they will accompany on the steps of the “Met”, backed by Central Park on the 5e avenue de Manhattan, the high priestess of events and fashion, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Vogue Anna Wintour.
With his albums Un verano sin ti (2022) and Nadie Sabe Lo Que va a Pasar Manana (2023), Bad Bunny was the 2e most listened to artist in the world on the streaming platform Spotify, behind Taylor Swift.
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Bad Bunny, in March 2021
Revealed on Disney Channel, Zendaya became a star for her role in the series Euphoria (HBO) about the lives of adolescents, between trauma, romantic relationships and addiction.
Both a celebrity parade and a social and philanthropic evening, the Met Gala constitutes the main source of funding for the museum’s fashion department (The Costume Institute).
In its press release, the Metropolitan Museum emphasizes that “to date, and since Met administrator Anna Wintour took over as director, the gala has raised $223.5 million for the Costume Institute.” “.
Each year, the event takes place on the first Monday of May and it accompanies the opening of the major exhibition of the “Costume Institute”, dedicated in 2024 to the “sleeping beauties” of the museum, in other words these pieces of clothing or outfits the oldest or most fragile in his collection.
And the dress code of the Met Gala, other information eagerly awaited by fashionistas who will crowd on May 6 at the foot of the museum steps to catch a glimpse of the stars: “The Garden of Time”, which refers to a short story of the same name by British science fiction writer JG Ballard, on the ephemeral nature of beauty.
This “dress code” allows great designers to put their imagination at the service of the outfits worn by the stars, and the rise of the steps of the Met is each year the occasion for a competition of sartorial extravagance, as in 2021, when the Reality TV star Kim Kardashian arrived completely covered in black, including her face.