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Zendayawill not be at the Met Gala this year!
The 25-year-old actress revealed during a joint interview with herDunecostar and Met Gala co-chairTimothée Chalametshe’s unable to attend the biggest night in fashion this year due to a scheduling conflict with production for season 2 of her HBO Max seriesEuphoria.
Chalamet, 25, interjected, “Bummer, bummer.”
“I will unfortunately not be able to attend because I’ll be working forEuphoria,” Zendaya continued, explaining, “I got my time off to come here and do thisVenice [Film Festival]experience, which has been really, really special.”
“Very stressful one,” Zendaya recalled. “That one almost took me out.”
The Disney Channel star famously channeled the Disney princess during the Met Gala two years ago, while Roach played the role of the fairy godmother, as the dress slowly lit up on the pink carpet.
At the time, the stylist toldVoguethe outfit was meant to evoke her career evolution from Disney star to in-demand actress.
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“It’s almost like this is the last hoorah and the last time people will identify her as a Disney princess—which isn’t a bad thing,” he said in 2019.
“Next year we’re going to have to [either] chill out or come down from a helicopter like Diana Ross at the Superbowl,” Roach teased. “When this goes off like it’s supposed to what else can you do!”
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 official theme for the star-studded event (which comes after acanceled 2020 Met Galaand a postponed May date) isIn America: A Lexicon of Fashion.
TheMetropolitan Museum of Art confirmed in April that the annual fashion fête will be back— in two parts.
The museum’s new exhibition will include a series of events celebrating American fashion. Part one, titled “In 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 sais.
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To celebrate part two, another gala, which will follow the famous “first Monday in May” timing, is set to be held on May 2 of next year.
source: people.com
