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Met Gala themes

Order by the year of the Met Gala that opened each Costume Institute theme. You place all 35 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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Order by the year of the Met Gala that opened each Costume Institute theme. Drag or tap it onto the line
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How the Met Gala themes timeline game works

Each card is a theme of the Costume Institute's spring exhibition, and you're putting them in order by the year of the Met Gala that opened it. Under each title is a line about the show: a chair, a sponsor, a dress code or what the exhibition covered. One theme sits on the timeline at the start. Place each new one in a gap. Right placements show the year, wrong ones still go to the correct spot and take a life. You have three, and getting ten right in a row brings one back.

Themes jump between designer retrospectives, historical periods, national styles and big conceptual ideas, so subject matter is a poor guide to age. Designers tend to get their tribute shows near a career peak or soon after a death, which is a useful way in. The names under the titles help if you know when a co-chair or sponsor was in the spotlight. Expect the recent themes to be the closest calls, since a new one arrives every spring.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 35 cards you might be dealt, with 7 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • The World of Balenciaga Spanish couturier's retrospective
  • Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design Movie costume showcase
  • American Women of Style Chaired by Jane Engelhard
  • The Glory of Russian Costume Chaired by Jacqueline Onassis
  • The Eighteenth-Century Woman Sponsored by Merle Norman
  • La Belle Époque Sponsored by Pierre Cardin
  • Yves Saint Laurent A living designer's retrospective
  • A Tribute to Diana Vreeland Honoring the former Vogue editor
  • Haute Couture Honorary chairs Karl Lagerfeld and Gianni Versace
  • Christian Dior Sponsored by Dior and LVMH
  • Gianni Versace Tribute to the slain designer
  • Rock Style Sponsored by Tommy Hilfiger
  • Goddess: The Classical Mode Sponsored by Gucci
  • The House of Chanel Co-chaired by Karl Lagerfeld
  • AngloMania British fashion, sponsored by Burberry
  • Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy Co-chaired by George Clooney
  • American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity Co-chaired by Oprah Winfrey
  • Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty Co-chaired by Colin Firth
  • Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations Sponsored by Amazon
  • Punk: Chaos to Couture Honorary chair Beyoncé
  • China: Through the Looking Glass Co-chaired by Jennifer Lawrence
  • Manus x Machina Co-chaired by Taylor Swift
  • Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between Co-chaired by Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady
  • Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination Co-chaired by Rihanna and Amal Clooney
  • In America: A Lexicon of Fashion Co-chaired by Timothée Chalamet and Billie Eilish
  • Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty Co-chaired by Dua Lipa and Roger Federer
  • Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion Dress code: The Garden of Time
  • Superfine: Tailoring Black Style Co-chaired by Pharrell Williams

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