The 2023 ‘Karl Lagerfeld’ Met Gala’s celebrity co-chairs, revealed: Dua Lipa, Roger Federer, Penelope Cruz and Michaela Coel will present the prestigious event alongside Anna Wintour this May

Jan 19 , 2023

Channeling Chanel: the theme of the 2023 Met Gala is “In honour of Karl [Lagerfeld]“. The German designer died in early 2019. Photo: Reuters

New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is ready to get the full glam treatment in just a few months.

Karl Lagerfeld in 2012: the designer had an iconic look, and now the stars will get to interpret his work at the next Met Gala. Photo: Getty Images for Chanel

The Met Gala, the annual benefit for the museum’s Costume Institute that gathers fashion and pop culture’s most famous and powerful people, will take place May 1 – following its usual calendar placement on the first Monday in May. The theme, which corresponds with the changing fashion exhibit, will honour late designer Karl Lagerfeld.

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City – one of the season’s premiere events. Photo: AFP

Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour announced the 2023 theme during Paris Fashion Week in September. Vogue announced the date, the famous names who will co-chair the annual fundraiser alongside Wintour, and the official dress code via Instagram.

“Paying tribute to Mr. Lagerfeld is not solely a task for the museum’s curators: the 2023 dress code is ‘In honour of Karl’,” the publication wrote.

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When is the Met Gala in 2023?

Actress Blake Lively wowed at last year’s Met Gala in her Statue of Liberty-style gown. Photo: Invision/AP

The 2023 Met Gala will take place on May 1.

Last year’s Met Gala, themed “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” marked a return to the event’s annual schedule for the first Monday in May after the pandemic caused the 2020 gala to be cancelled and the 2021 gala to be postponed to September.

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What is the 2023 Met Gala theme?

This year’s Met Gala will honour fashion designer and creative director Karl Lagerfeld. Photo: @mariechantal22/Instagram

Stars, influencers and fashion figures attending the Met Gala this year will be honouring late designer Lagerfeld.

The German-born couturier worked for decades simultaneously as creative director of many fashion houses including Chanel, Fendi and Chloé in addition to helming his eponymous international fashion label. He died in 2019 at the age of 85.

Karl Lagerfeld was creative director of several fashion houses during his lifetime, including Chanel. Photo: EPA-EFE

The Met’s costume institute exhibit will transform to reflect “Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty” and will see some 150 of his creations assembled together to show off his “stylistic language”, a Met press release says. Lagerfeld’s original sketches will also be on display.

Who will co-chair the Met Gala with Anna Wintour?

Dua Lipa attends the 2019 Met Gala “Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Photo: AFP

The exclusive invite list for the Met Gala is mostly under lock and key until the stars arrive on the red carpet for the cameras. However, a handful of big names are announced as co-chairs ahead of time.

Penelope Cruz arrives for the 2019 Met Gala “Celebrating Camp: Notes on Fashion” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Photo: Getty Images

This year Michaela Coel, Dua Lipa, Penelope Cruz and Roger Federer will host the extravagant event alongside Wintour.

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Dubbed the ‘Oscars of fashion’, the Met Gala is the event of the year for celebrities who want to dress up, and this year the theme honours Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld, who died in 2019
Host Anna Wintour just announced that pop phenom Dua Lipa, I May Destroy You writer Michaela Coel, actress Penelope Cruz and tennis star Roger Federer will co-host with her