2023 Met Gala date

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September 30, 2022 | 10:05am

Here comes Karl.

Vogue revealed on Friday that the 2023 Met Gala theme will pay tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld nearly four years after his death from pancreatic cancer at the age of 85.

The exhibition, called “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty,” will explore the illustrious designer’s career, which spanned from 1954 to 2019 across multiple high-fashion brands, including Balmain, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel and his own eponymous line.

In addition to being heavily involved in the 2015 Chanel-themed event, Lagerfeld was a fixture at the Met Gala over the years, as he was close friends with Vogue Editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and one of the industry’s most lauded names.

“Karl never tired of telling me that fashion did not belong in a museum,” the Costume Institute’s Wendy Yu Curator in Charge, Andrew Bolton, told Vogue.

2023 Met Gala date

Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour were the closest of friends for many decades. They're pictured here in 1991.

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2023 Met Gala date

Lagerfeld and Anna Wintour were the closest of friends for many decades. They're pictured here in 2011.

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It’s not yet known who will serve as hosts of the upcoming event, though Lagerfeld was particularly close with Naomi Campbell, Kim Kardashian, Kristen Stewart, Penelope Cruz, Diane Kruger, 2017 Met Gala host Pharrell Williams, 2022 Met Gala host Blake Lively, Cara Delevingne, who fêted her Cara Loves Karl line in Paris earlier this week, and more.

The star-studded red carpet event will take place on May 1, 2023, and the accompanying exhibition will be on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from May 5 to July 16.

Karl Lagerfeld 1960Lagerfeld started his career in the 1950s and continued to prominence through his death.Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images

What is met galas theme 2023?

The exhibition, aptly titled “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” will open next May, but all eyes are already on the gala looks. The Met Gala theme will be “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty.”

Who will host the Met Gala 2023?

The late Karl Lagerfeld will be the subject of next year's Met Gala and corresponding Costume Institute exhibition, giving celebrity stylists seven months to scour the globe for the most off-theme, eyebrow-raising, or spooky archival looks (perhaps Kim Kardashian will find another dead person's dress?).

Who held Met Gala 2022?

The Costume Institute is hosting its first two-part exhibition, on the theme of American fashion, during 2021 and 2022.

What is the next Met Gala Theme 2022?

The 2022 Met Gala theme, In America: An Anthology of Fashion, is built around the tenets of American style, and celebrates unsung heroes of US design. See all of the looks from the 2022 Met Gala red carpet here.