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met gala 2023

Theme: "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty" 

Janelle Monáe

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue 

met gala 2019

Theme: "Camp: Notes on Fashion" 

Jared Leto

met gala 2019

Theme: "Camp: Notes on Fashion" 

Ezra Miller

Dia Dipasupil/FilmMagic 

met gala 2019

Theme: "Camp: Notes on Fashion" 

Katy Perry

Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images 

met gala 2018

Theme: "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" 

Sarah Jessica Parker

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met gala 2018

Theme: "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" 

Katy Perry

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images 

met gala 2017

Theme: "Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between"

Kendall Jenner

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met gala 2016

Theme: "Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology"

Taylor Swift

Larry Busacca/Getty Images 

met gala 2015

Theme: "China: Through The Looking Glass"

Beyonce

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images 

met gala 2015

Theme: "China: Through The Looking Glass"

Solange

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met gala 2012

Theme: "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations"

Marc Jacobs

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met gala 2012

Theme: "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations"

Florence Welch

Larry Busacca/Getty Images 

met gala 2008

Theme: "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy"

Amber Valletta

Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images 

met gala 1974

Theme: "Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design"

Cher

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