Introducing Le Grand Dîner du Louvre — Paris’ answer to New York’s Met Gala

21 Jan 2025

The Met Gala has raised money for The Costume Institute at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art since its inception as a society dinner in 1948, known by many as the first Monday in May or simply as fashion’s most glittering night. This year, Paris’ Louvre Museum will take on the American gallery for that title, however, as it reveals plans for a French Met Gala two months earlier, on March 4 — the first Tuesday in March — during Paris Fashion Week. The fundraising event, which the museum has reported already hit “its fundraising goal of one million euros”, will help promote the gallery’s first fashion exhibition, Louvre Couture: Art and Fashion — Statement Pieces, which opens to the public on January 24.