When was the Met Gala 2018, what was this year’s theme and is the Met Ball always held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art?
The fashion festival encourages guests to dress according to a specific theme
THE highly-anticipated Met Gala took place ojn May 7, 2018, and celebrities did not disappoint with their red carpet outfits.
The fundraising event, which is frequented by some of the leading figures in fashion and entertainment, kicks off the opening of the Costume Institute’s annual fashion exhibit.
When was the Met Gala 2018?
The Met Gala always takes place on the first Monday in May.
This year’s event took place on Monday, May 7.
The red carpet walks began at 7pm local time in New York, which is 12am BST.
The gala is the biggest event in the fashion fundraising calendar, with donations and proceeds going towards the Met's Costume Institute.
Where does the Met Gala take place?
The annual event is a celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is located in New York.
It is one of the world’s largest art galleries and is located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan’s Museum Mile.
Celebrities rock up to the city that never sleeps to pay tribute to the Costume Institute and their new exhibition.
A total of three locations were used for the show: the Anna Wintour Costume Center, the medieval galleries at the Met, and uptown at the Cloisters.
What was the theme of the Met Gala 2018?
Every year, the Met Gala runs with a specific concept.
The theme for the 2018 red carpet was Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.
The theme was selected to pay tribute to the masterworks of religious art in the museum through the medium of fashion.
Forty Vatican robes and accessories were on display, including Pope Benedict XV's white silk cape embroidered with gold thread.
The Costume Institutes curator Andrew Bolton said at a press conference: "Some might consider fashion to be an unfitting or unseemly medium by which to engage with ideas about the sacred or the divine, but dress is central to any discussion about religion.
"It affirms religious allegiances and, by extension, it asserts religious differences."