Zendaya attends the 2025 Met Gala in New York City. Savion Washington/Getty Images/Getty Images North America
Savion Washington/Getty Images/Getty Images North America
The first Monday in May means one thing: the Met Gala, fashion’s biggest night.
The annual fundraiser supports New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute. But it’s also an opulent, invite-only, celebrity-filled pop culture spectacle that raised a record $31 million last year — before the exhibit even opened.
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