The 2024 Met Gala theme is announced.

While the past three year’s themes have been more straightforward, mining the archives of Karl Lagerfeld’s career, glamour from the Gilded Age, and American fashion broadly, next year’s Met Gala — taking place on Monday, May 6 — will be based on more conceptual reference points around fashion history, nature, technology and the senses.

Nap time meets red carpet? Kind of. Recently, the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its next exhibition and the 2024 Met Gala theme — “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion.” While this might sound like a win for sleepy girls around the world, myself included, the exhibition will feature approximately 250 items drawn from the Costume Institute’s permanent collection, many of which have been rarely seen in public before. Spanning over 400 years of fashion history, the pieces will include designs by Schiaparelli, Dior, Givenchy, and more. Some garments that are too fragile to ever be worn again—such as a Charles Frederick Worth ballgown from 1877—will also be displayed via video animation, light projection, AI, CGI, and other forms of sensory stimulation.

Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute, added that the exhibition will be shaped around three main “zones”—Land, Sea, and Sky—that pay tribute to the natural world. “It is very much an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of fashion,” he said.