Despite multiple attempts to leak seating charts, invitation lists, and food menus, the Met Gala team has done an outstanding job of keeping the event planning under wraps and the main event intimate for guests to enjoy.

There’s no reason not to go all out, Amy Fine Collins, a journalist and fashion historian told TODAY of the Gilded Age-inspired theme.

The outfits at the Met Gala are in conversation with a different theme each year. The theme for 2018 was “Heavenly Bodies.” In 2019, it was “Camp: Fashion Notes.”

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Each year’s event celebrates the specific theme of that year’s Costume Institute exhibition, and the exhibition sets the tone for the evening’s formal attire, as guests are expected to curate their fashion, which is mostly haute couture, to match the theme of the exhibit.

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