MET GALA 2024
How much do tickets for the Met Gala cost?
Ahead of the 2024 Met Gala, which takes place on Monday, we take a look at how much it costs to attend the star-studded benefit event in New York.
The 2024 edition of the Met Gala, an annual fundraiser widely viewed as the most prestigious event in fashion, is to be held at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on Monday 6 May. First staged in 1948, the Met Gala attracts a host of celebrity attendees, who dress according to a set theme - usually sporting bespoke creations crafted by top fashion designers.
The cost of tickets to the Met Gala 2024
Every year, the Met Gala raises millions for the museum’s Costume Institute, which organises an annual spring exhibition whose opening coincides with the benefit event. Money is raised for the Costume Institute through the sale of tickets for the star-studded gala.
Ahead of 2023′s event, Page Six reported that ticket prices had risen from $30,000 to $50,000 per person. This year, the cost of entry has increased again. Per The New York Times, 2024 tickets have been going for $75,000 each, with the price of a whole table starting at $350,000.
The celebrities who grace the Met Gala red carpet do not generally pay for their tickets to the event. They are invited by designers and brands, who buy their guests’ seat at a table.
What to know about the 2024 Met Gala
In 2024, the Met Gala will celebrate the Costume Institute’s new exhibition “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion”, which will open on 10 May. “Approximately 250 objects spanning four centuries will be on view, visually united by iconography related to nature, which will serve as a metaphor for the fragility and ephemerality of fashion,” the Met says. The dress code for this year’s benefit is “The Garden of Time”.
Who are the 2024 Met Gala’s hosts and guests?
Since 1995, Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour has run the Met Gala, which each year is co-hosted by a fresh group of famous faces. In 2024, the hosts will be Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth.
As for the other celebrities expected to be in attendance: it is very likely that Ben Affleck and Elsa Pataky, the spouses of Lopez and Hemsworth, respectively, will be there. Rihanna, Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, as well as members of the Kardashian-Jenner clan, are also expected to attend. And according to various reports, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have been invited.