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Met Gala 2022
March 2023
Lizzo’s black dress and Beyoncé’s gold halo star in Kensington Palace show
Crown to Couture exhibition reveals red carpet celebrity gowns echo costumes of 18th-century aristocrats
June 2022
Owner of Marilyn Monroe dress says Kim Kardashian did not ‘in any way’ damage it
Kim Kardashian accused of doing ‘permanent damage’ to Marilyn Monroe’s dress
8 May 2022
What do you get when a lack of taste meets a shedload of cash? Anna Wintour’s ball
Catherine Bennett
New York’s annual Met Gala is tawdry at the best of times. This year its excess just seemed moronic
7 May 2022
Flashing the flesh: what’s behind the new barely-there trend?
Weekend
Eurovision, Marina Hyde on Roe v Wadde, bad taste and the Met Gala, middle-aged tattoos – podcast
3 May 2022
More fancy dress than elegance: has social media killed good taste at the Met Gala?
By saying nothing as the world burns, the Met Gala shows we’re still living in a gilded age
Amelia Abraham
Kim Kardashian wears Marilyn Monroe’s JFK dress as Met Gala celebrates gilded age
Fashion’s biggest night, the 2022 Met Gala – as it happened
Met Gala 2022 red carpet: from Marilyn Monroe’s gown to a fake moustache – in pictures
Met Gala 2022: politics rises to the surface on fashion’s biggest night
2 May 2022
Met Gala organizers face criticism for ‘Gilded Glamor’ theme amid inflation
Theme pays homage to period of prosperity, industrialization and growth in US from 1870 to 1890, leading some to call it ‘out of touch’
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