FASHION AND MASTERPIECES of religious art is the new theme of the Met Gala that will be presented in three locations. The Anna Wintour Costume Center, the medieval galleries at the Met's Fifth Avenue location, and further uptown at the Cloisters.

The theme will server as a reminder of religion and liturgical effect of fashion. 150 ensembles will include pieces by Coco Chanel who was educated by nuns. Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton wants to show how “material Christianity” has helped form “the Catholic imagination. " The intersection of faith and fashion, the sacred and profane, as it were, has not always been easy—“complex and sometimes contested” but the interplay between the two has inspired some awe-inspiring sartorial innovation, Andrew Bolton told Vogue.

Anna Wintour’s 2018 co-hosts for this year's Met Gala, all much-worshiped by the paparazzi: Amal Clooney, Rihanna, and Donatella Versace.