The gala is a yearly fundraiser for the Met’s Costume Institute and calls on designers to adorn stars, models, and sometimes influencers in the fashions of a selected theme to match a wing of the museum’s exhibit.
The 2022 exhibit is a continuation of the 2021 theme of American fashion and will include “cinematic vignettes” created by top Hollywood directors congruent with the “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” theme.
Every year the event, largely considered the Oscars of fashion, as selected co-hosts and honorary hosts, Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has been at the helm of the Met ball since 1995 curating a tight-knit invite list, seating arrangement, and dress code which is gilded glamour.
The last time we saw Katy Perry at the Met Gala, she literally lit up the red carpet dressed as a couture chandelier and then changed into a cheeseburger costume. This year, she skipped the campy costumes in favor of an elegant look that fully embraced the event’s Gilded Glamour dress code.
This was Perry’s first time at the gala since 2019 the chandelier year, in case you’re keeping track. Her fiancé Orlando Bloom, with whom she shares daughter Daisy Dove Bloom, born in August 2020, was not in attendance.