An eclectic group of celebrities with several Latinos will preside over the MET Gala on May 6

Singers Bad Bunny and Jennifer López and actors Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will host the next MET Gala on May 6, forming an eclectic group that will preside over one of the most anticipated social events each year in New York and the United States.

As is tradition, the editor-in-chief of Vogue magazine, Anna Wintour, will also preside over the gala, whose dress code will be “The Garden of Time,” as explained in a statement by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. NYwhere the MET Gala event is held.

For his part, the CEO of TikTok, Shou Chew will be one of the honorary presidents of the evening, since his company – increasingly present at haute couture events – is the one that is responsible for the bulk of the event's financing this year, with secondary help from Loewe and Conde Nast.

While Chris Hemsworth will attend the gala for the first time, Jennifer López, Zendaya and Bad Bunny will repeat as attendees, The New Yorker, who is returning for the thirteenth time, is the one who has attended the event the most times.

The MET Gala, a flash of fashion

Among those who have already attended other MET Gala Especially remembered are the Ralph Lauren dress and the 'cowboy' style hat that Jennifer López wore in 2021, the Joan of Arc look that Zendaya wore in 2018, and the suit with an open back and a cape with floral motifs that Bad Bunny wore. in 2023.

The gala will begin the great fashion exhibition that the Metropolitan Museum (MET) in New York opens every spring and which this year deals with the ephemeral nature of clothing and its trends, entitled 'Sleeping Beauties: Reanimating Fashion' .

The MET Gala is known as the annual event par excellence of New York glamour, in which a large number of celebrities gather, and the exhibition can be visited in a room of the museum until September 2 of this year.

According to the MET, the event (where the patronage of large fortunes is promoted) provides the institution with its main source of funding for annual exhibitions, publications, acquisitionsoperations and capital improvements, and has so far raised more than $223.5 million for the Costume Institute (the museum's fashion collection) under the direction of Anna Wintour.

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