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Every Met Gala Theme Dating Back to 1971
- 2023: Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
- 2022: In America: An Anthology of Fashion
- 2021: In America: A Lexicon of Fashion
- 2019: Camp: Notes on Fashion
- 2018: Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination
- 2017: Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garçons: Art of the In-Between
- 2016: Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology
- 2015: China: Through the Looking Glass
- 2014: Charles James: Beyond Fashion
- 2013: Punk: Chaos to Couture
- 2012: Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations
- 2011: Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
- 2010: American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity
- 2009: The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion
- 2008: Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy
- 2007: Poiret: King of Fashion
- 2006: AngloMania: Tradition and Transgression in British Fashion
- 2005: The House of Chanel
- 2004: Dangerous Liaisons: Fashion and Furniture in the 18th Century
- 2003: Goddess: The Classical Mode
- 2001: Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years
- 1999: Rock Style
- 1998: Cubism and Fashion
- 1997: Gianni Versace
- 1996: Christian Dior
- 1995: Haute Couture
- 1994: Orientalism: Visions of the East in Western dress
- 1993: Diana Vreeland: Immoderate Style
- 1992: Fashion and History: A Dialogue
- 1990: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture
- 1989: The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire
- 1988: From Queen to Empress: Victorian Dress
- 1987: A Tribute to Diana Vreeland
- 1986: Dance
- 1985: Costumes of Royal India
- 1984: Man and the Horse
- 1983: Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design
- 1982: La Belle Époque
- 1981: The Eighteenth-Century Woman
- 1980: The Manchu Dragon: Costumes of China, the Chi’ng Dynasty
- 1979: Fashions of the Habsburg Era: Austria-Hungary
- 1978: Diaghilev: Costumes and Designs of the Ballets Russes
- 1977: Vanity Fair: A Treasure Trove
- 1976: The Glory of Russian Costume
- 1975: American Women of Style
- 1974: Romantic and Glamorous Hollywood Design
- 1973 (December): The 10s, the 20s, the 30s: Inventive Clothes
- 1973 (March): The World of Balenciaga
- 1971: Fashion Plate
