#JustIn: Roger Federer to serve an ace at 2023 Met Gala as co-chair

Roger Federer, a man, who has transcended the game of tennis to be a style icon who never fails to impress us looking dapper as ever, each time he steps out in a suit. The 20-time Grand Slam champion gave each one of us fans a wonderful Wednesday as he was announced by the Met Gala as one of the co-chairs for the event, to be held in May. 

The surprise didn’t just end there with the rest of the list featuring celebrities such as Michaela Coel, Penelope Cruz, Dua Lipa, and Federer’s longtime friend Anna Wintour who has long been credited with helping up Federer’s fashion game.

Lipa shared an Instagram post on Wednesday morning announcing her involvement with the gala. The post includes a short video of each co-chair’s signature on a piece of stationary announcing the upcoming event.

The annual Met Gala, which benefits the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, will resume its annual tradition of taking place on the first Monday in May on May 1.

What’s more you ask? Well, this year’s exhibition will celebrate the opening of “Karl Lagerfield: A Line of Beauty”. The exhibit will feature around 150 pieces by the German fashion designer, creative director, artist and photographer—right from the time he started his business way back in the 1950s to his final collection in 2019. 

The guests will have the opportunity to pay homage to Lagerfeld’s affinity for aesthetics and theory of art by embodying the “line of beauty” through the appreciation and execution of the “‘straight line’ and the “serpentine line,” which delineate, respectively, Lagerfeld’s modernist and historicist tendencies,” according to the announcement by Met. 

Along with the straight and serpentine lines, the exhibition will conclude with the “satirical line,” that will highlight Lagerfeld’s “ironic, playful, and whimsical predilections expressed through visual puns that reflect the designer’s razor-sharp wit.”