The Met Gala is set to take place this year after being cancelled in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to reports.

The annual fashion bash is usually held in May to celebrate the opening of the Metropolitan Museum in New York’s headline exhibition.

A Page Six story has reported that the Met Gala will happen this year, but it will be delayed to September.

Citing an insider source, the Page Six report said the event would take place on 13 September, in the hopes that life will be more “normal” by that point.

The Met Gala usually takes place on the first Monday of May, but it cannot be held on the first Monday of September as that clashes with Labor Day, which is a federal holiday in the US.

“Even Anna Wintour can’t change a federal holiday,” said the insider. The Vogue editor in chief is also a chairwoman of the Met Gala.

The source also claimed that poet Amanda Gorman and CFDA chairman Tom Ford are being eyed up as potential hosts for the 2021 event.

Gorman, the 23-year-old who performed at Joe Biden’s inauguration, appeared on the cover of  Vogue’s May issue.

However, PopSugar reports that a source from the Costume Institute says the gala is not yet officially confirmed.

The statement said: “We have not yet announced the next Costume Institute exhibition or gala.”

Typically, the event has a different theme every year, but the dress code is always black-tie.

The 2020 Met Gala was themed “About Time” and was due to be co-chaired by Louis Vuitton creative director Nicolas Ghesquière, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Meryl Streep, Emma Stone and Anna Wintour.

The original 2020 event was postponed indefinitely on 16 March last year. The exhibition “About Time: Fashion and Duration" opened at New York’s Met museum on 29 October, after the museum reopened in August.

Instead of an in-person gala, Vogue live-streamed a digital event – A Moment With the Met – on 4 May, the original 2020 date.

Read More