Met Gala to return with two-part 'In America' exhibition By (0) Anna Wintour is a longtime chair of the Met Gala, which will return this year with the first of a two-part exhibition on American fashion. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI | License Photo April 12 (UPI) -- The Met Gala will return this year with the first of a two-part exhibition. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute has a two-part exhibition on American fashion planned for September and May 2022. Advertisement The Costume Institute will host a smaller gala Sept. 13 to herald the launch of "In America: A Lexicon of Fashion" on Sept. 18. The exhibition will celebrate the institute's 75th anniversary and "explore a modern vocabulary of American fashion."