Met Gala 2022: A guide to fashion's biggest night

The 2022 Met Gala will take place Monday, May 2. The theme for this year's Met Gala is "Gilded glamour, white-tie."

Not to forget, the Met Gala is still a fundraiser – last year the evening earned more than a whopping $16.4 million for the Met’s Costume Institute. Let’s also not forget that it launches the annual spring fashion exhibit that brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to the museum.

But it’s the Met Gala carpet itself (now watchable for everyone, on livestream) that draws the world’s eyes, with the guest list strategically withheld until the last minute – a collection of stars from movies, music, fashion, sports, politics and elsewhere that probably makes for the highest celebrity wattage per square foot of any party in the world.