Melissa Kacar

T he Met Gala is traditionally held on the first Monday in May each year to celebrate the opening of the Costume Institute's annual exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. All of the ticket sales go towards the funding of the Costume Institute, raising a record breaking $15 million in 2019. Not only is it one of the biggest charitable events in New York, it is also a pop culture spectacle that is often talked about for weeks, months, and sometimes even years to come. It is a chance for designers to display their custom creations on the world's most recognizable faces and celebrate the union between fine art and fashion in a major way. The designers and attendees are required to follow the theme of the exhibition that year, which often results in the most high fashion, dramatic, controversial, and sometimes meme-worthy red carpet moments imaginable - especially in the past decade. Notable past themes have been retrospectives of designers such as Gianni Versace, C...