Chris Hemsworth has cleared his diary for the first Monday in May as the Australian actor has been announced as a co-chair for this year’s Met Gala.
The middle Hemsworth brother will join Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya and Bad Bunny on the organising committee for the annual event.
The 40-year-old is no stranger to high fashion as the face of Hugo Boss and Tag Heuer but the unexpected role comes without Chris having ever attended the massive fashion gala.
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Younger brother Liam Hemsworth attended with now ex-wife Miley Cyrus in 2019. Older brother Luke has also not been as yet.
While it will be Chris’s first Met Gala, it’s a different story for his co-chairs – Bad Bunny will be attending for the third time, Zendaya for the sixth time and Lopez will become a 14-time attendee.
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The New York event hosts the creme de la creme of the music, movie and fashion worlds and acts as a premiere for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s spring exhibition, which this year is Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.
It also raises money for the Met’s Costume Institute and features a different theme each year, with this year being “Garden of Time”.
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Vogue, which puts on the benefit, says the dress code has “nothing to do with the Brothers Grimm or Disney, but is rather a celebration of clothing and fashion so fragile that it can’t ever be worn again – and are therefore sleeping beauties in the scrupulously maintained archives of The Costume Institute.
“Per the Metropolitan Museum of Art, we’re to expect a range of fashion on display, which dates back to a 17th-century English Elizabethan-era bodice, that embodies the beauty of the natural world—its fragility and its inevitable decay,” the fashion tome explained.
“More modern, less delicate pieces imbued with the same spirit as the spotlit fashions will be showcased alongside them, and broken up into three sub-themes: Land, Sea, and Sky.”
The news was announced in a graphic-based video shared online pretending to be a view of the hosts’ group chat.
“Checking schedule now,” Chris said, when asked by Vogue editor and Met trustee Anna Wintour if he’s available on May 6.
“I can free up that day,” the next message said with a wink symbol.
He got a curt “good” from Wintour in reply.
The Met Gala, the Oscars of fashion as it’s sometimes dubbed, will take place on May 6.