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Amanda Gormanis ready for her real-life fairytale moment.
While chatting withPORTERfor their latest cover story, the 23-year-old poet and activist opened up about co-chairing the annualMet Gala, which is scheduled to take place later this year in September.
Speaking about the event, Gorman told the outlet that her role as co-chair is something she never imagined. “The closest analogy is feeling like Cinderella going to the ball,” she said. “Anna Wintourtook the time to ask me over Zoom; I was not expecting that at all.”
Gorman, who skyrocketed to famewhen she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration, will be co-chairing alongsideTimothée Chalamet,Billie EilishandNaomi Osaka. She said taking on the co-chair role “feels like being a freshman at a party with seniors. You know? Like I just arrived here. My life has changed quite recently and they are all at the top of their game, and so I’m just absorbing what it means to be able to stand beside their greatness.”
“There is something unifying in us being young and fresh-faced but, at the same time, we have become somewhat emblematic of our industries,” she added. “We are the new generation — and you’d better watch out.”
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After the Metropolitan Museum of Art andVogue’s annual fashion event was indefinitely postponed —and ultimately canceled— in 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, theMetropolitan Museum of Art confirmed the gala will be backin two parts earlier this year.
The museum’s next exhibition will include a series of events celebrating American fashion. Part one, titledIn America: A Lexicon of Fashion, will debut on September 18, 2021, and run through September 5, 2022, to “celebrate The Costume Institute’s 75th anniversary and explore a modern vocabulary of American fashion,” a release states.
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To kick off the part one opening, “a more intimate” Met Gala is set to take place on the second Monday in September, “pending government guidelines,” while the 2022 Met Gala celebrating part two will adhere to the traditional “First Monday in May” timing, set to take place on May 2, 2022.
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Timothée Chalamet; Amanda Gorman; Naomi Osaka; Billie Eilish.Amy Sussman/Getty Images; Mike Coppola/Getty Images; Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
The first Met Gala was held in 1948 as a benefit dinner, and was not pegged to a particular exhibition. From 1948 to 1971, it was held offsite at the Waldorf Astoria or the Rainbow Room,according to CNN. It was canceled in 1963, following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and again in 2002, following the 9/11 attacks.
Today the Met Gala is the Costume Institute’s primary source of annual funding for “exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, operations and capital improvements.”
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Continuing to chat withPORTER, Gorman also opened up about her own fashion followingJoe Biden’s inauguration, which thrust her into the national spotlight.
“I love playing with ways in which I can celebrate my Black heritage through fashion, so I made the intentional choice to wear my hair natural, to wear braids, to wear a headband as a point of pride,” she said of the occasion where she recited her poem, “The Hill We Climb.”
On describing her own style, Gorman notes, “It’s like describing your own voice.”
“But, if I had to describe my style, I would say that it’s how I feel on the inside,” she added. “I love clothing that feels young and vibrant and hopeful, but also thoughtful and pensive.”
Gorman also believes her role in the Met Gala will help shape future fashion events, where she thinks writers and poets will be able to also make their marks. “I’m even more enthusiastic to see all the other writers and poets who may grace that red carpet in the future,” she told the outlet. “And I hope that, when you see my look, you can feel what I’m saying loud and clear.”
source: people.com
