The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute dazzles museum goers with its annual exhibit. Over the past few years, the Costume Institute has honored fashions greatest from Coco Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld to Paul Poiret. Along with the Chanel exhibit, I was also lucky enough to see AngloMania. The creativity presented by the curators never fails to impress drawing inspiration from the modern day and the theme itself. 

The annual exhibit always commences with a lavish gala that brings together New York’s richest, most prominent members, celebrities and of course, fashion designers, models and editors from the country’s best fashion magazines. The Costume Institute’s annual gala is the epitome of a fabulous event. Last year, guests arrived via a red carpet that lead to a great room where peacocks sat surrounded by red roses in a giant, gold birdcage. 

Guests enjoyed a formal cocktail hour followed by a seated dinner in the courtyard of the MET. Event planners designed everything from the table settings and lanterns to the food selections around Poiret’s Art-Deco style. 

On May 7, the Costume Institute unveils its annual exhibit: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy. According to the Costume Institute website, “this exhibition will explore the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero.” Style.com posted an interesting preview of the exhibit (here) that I recommend checking out. I am hoping to make it to New York to see the exhibit, but I am most excited to see what the incredible event planners come up with this year for the gala.