A look back at stunning Met Gala interiors over the years
Each year, the Raul Ávila event planner receives an intimidating task: transforming the interiors of the Met Gala into a spectacle of another world. For 2019 “Camp: fashion notes”, He created a flamboyant centerpiece of 25 flamingos made up of 30,000 flowers. In 2018, he erected a recreation of rose from a papal crown to “Celestial body: Catholic fashion and imagination.” And these are only examples of floral training: in 2007, for “Poiret: King of Fashion”, he filled a cage of golden birds with living peacocks. The minor chaos went when we escaped. “Everyone at the museum was chasing her after her to bring her back to the cage,” he recalls.
Each event brings an adventure: in 2013, Ávila and his team stolen in a London chandelier and fucked it with raash blades for the bash on the theme of this year’s punk, and the `celestial bodies ” saw the great staircase of the Met with thousands of candles. Then, there are the parameters of the table: 2019, for example, jaws table landscapes with bamboo cutlery, feathered lampshades, floral plates and shocking pink tablecloths.
The evening 2023, “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty”, honored Chanel’s creative director with his decor. The Temple of Dendur boasted of a set that looked like Lagerfeld’s original library, while the table landscapes took aesthetic clues from the famous wedding reception which he launched for Paloma Picasso. Meanwhile, 2024 saw Ávila and the Vogue The team of special events transforms the temple of Dendur into a delighted forest.
This year’s event -‘Superfine: coudoriner the black style – and its safe fantastic decor will take place on May 5. Until that time, take a tour through the interiors of the Met Gala over the years, from evening on the theme of Chanel in 2005 to the most recent case in 2024.
Sleeping Beauty: Reappearance mode
Karl Lagerfeld: a beauty line
In America: a fashion anthology and a fashion lexicon
Camp: fashion notes
Celestial body: Catholic fashion and imagination
Rei Kawakuno / Like boys: intermediaries art
Manus X Machina: Mode in the era of technology
China: through the glass in search
Charles James: Beyond fashion
Punk: sewing chaos
Schiaparelli & Prada: impossible conversations
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
American: shape a national identity
The model as a muse: playing fashion
Superhero: Fashion and Fantasy
Poiret: King of fashion
Anglomania: British fashion tradition and transgression
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This article appeared for the first time on vogue.com
