The First Tuesday in March: The Louvre reveals plans for rival French Met Gala in 2025
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The Met Gala has raised money for The Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art since its inception as a society dinner in 1948. Diana Vreeland followed by Anna Wintour, its co-chair since 1995, later succeeded in growing it into the behemoth, known by many as the first Monday in May or simply as fashion’s most glittering night.
This year, Paris’ Louvre Museum will take on the American gallery for that title, however, as it reveals plans for a French Met Gala two months earlier, on March 4 — the first Tuesday in March — during Paris Fashion Week. The fundraising event, which the museum has reported already hit “its fundraising goal of one million euros”, will help promote the gallery’s first fashion exhibition, Louvre Couture: Art and Fashion — Statement Pieces, which opens to the public on January 24.
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This follows the Met Gala’s lead: each event is themed to fit with the year’s fashion exhibition, from Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty in 2023, to last year’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion, and come with an appropriate dress code. The Parisian event has been christened “Le Grand Dîner du Louvre,” however we are yet to hear if guests will be asked to dress to a theme.
WWD reported that more than 30 tables were put up for auction for the event, and that the “biggest houses and foremost designers lending to the exhibition” had purchased tables. There should be no shortage of star power in Paris at that time, certainly. Last March, during Paris Fashion Week, stars including Kim Kardashian, Kate Moss, Paul McCartney, David Beckham, Gigi Hadid, Penélope Cruz, Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Sophie Turner, Pharrell and Naomi Campbell were all in town.
