How to stream and watch the Met Gala carpet

Key Points:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual Met Gala on Monday embraces the theme "Fashion is art," encouraging guests like Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams to showcase their creative interpretations of fashion as an embodied art form.
• The event highlights the deep connection between fashion and art, referencing iconic collaborations such as Elsa Schiaparelli with Salvador Dalí and Yves Saint Laurent's Mondrian dresses, while also allowing celebrities to present fashion as performance art.
• This year's dress code aligns with the Costume Institute’s spring exhibition, "Costume Art," which explores the significance of the dressed body and reinforces fashion's status as a legitimate art form.
• Historically, fashion was seen as frivolous compared to classical art, but the Met’s fashion exhibits, starting with Yves Saint Laurent’s in 1983, have shifted perceptions, a change underscored by the Gala’s dress code set by Anna Wintour and curator Andrew Bolton.
• Those unable to attend can watch the red carpet event live online via Vogue’s livestream, hosted by Ashley Graham, La La Anthony, Cara Delevingne, and Emma Chamberlain.