Each year, celebs go all-out for what is arguably THE red carpet of the year, where they're encouraged to flex their fashion muscles with bold and beautiful looks.
We are, of course, talking about the legendary Met Gala, a star-studded event that launches the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring exhibition.
The exhibit this year is Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, which takes the Black dandy as its central subject and is inspired by co-curator Monica Miller’s 2009 book Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity.
The accompanying gala theme is ‘Tailored For You’, with the event’s dress code not to the exhibition’s focus on menswear, and is ‘purposefully designed to provide guidance and invite creative interpretation’.
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As well as the dress code, there are a number of rules that guests have to bear in mind on the evening - including one that actor Chris Hemsworth accidentally broke.
The 41-year-old Thor star rocked up to the iconic steps at the Metropolitan Museum of Art alongside his wife Elsa Pataky last year.
Recalling the night afterwards, he told E! News: "My wife and I, we live in Australia.
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"So any sort of big awards show, we haven't become jaded because it's still new and exciting. And this in particular, eclectic group of people, different than the normal crowd of, you know, film award shows we've been doing... sports people, musicians, artists, so we had a really fun night."
While he only made his Met Gala debut last year, it's clear Hemsworth wasn't scared about breaking the rules.
Specifically, he confessed to taking ‘heaps of selfies’, adding: "Selfies everywhere. A lot of selfies in my phone. Like, ‘When did I take that? Let's delete that one’."
Chairperson Anna Wintour has famously placed a ban on celebs using their mobiles to take selfies and upload pictures to social media - supposedly in a bid to stop them spending the whole night on their phones.
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However, this has of course been broken on numerous occasions by the likes of Kylie Jenner and Billie Eilish.
As for other Met Gala rules, there’s a strict seating plan guests have to stick to, with Met Gala planner Eaddy Kiernan previously speaking about the seating chart and revealing just how tight it really is.
"We start with a seating document when the names come together in December," she told Vogue.
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Sylvana Ward Durrett, former director of special projects at Vogue, said in the 2016 documentary The First Monday in May: "A lot of thought goes into who sits next to who, if they sat together last year, if they've sat next to each other at other events, so much goes into it, it's shocking."
You also have to be over-18 to attend, a stipulation that was announced in 2018.
While many speculated that the change was linked to that year’s theme - ‘Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination’ - a spokesperson for the event confirmed that the decision had been made because ‘it's not an appropriate event for people under 18’.
Jess Hardiman