Fragile fashion at 'The Garden of Time' Met Gala 2024 red carpet

The first Monday of May has rolled around again and A-list celebrities and fashionistas have donned their finest for New York's Met Gala.

Each year the event is themed and this year the guests were asked to choose an impossibly delicate and ephemeral outfit inspired by the Garden of Time.

The 2024 dress code references the Metropolitan Museum of Art's latest showcase "Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion".

The edgy theme was inspired by J.G. Ballard's 1962 dystopian short story, the Garden of Time, about super-rich elites hiding from a riot of the "great unwashed".

Guests were invited to choose an outfit that referenced mortality, destruction with "clothes so fragile that they can never be worn by a person again," Vogue said.

Vogue US editor-in-chief and lead chairperson of the gala event Anna Wintour named Jennifer Lopez, Zendaya, Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny as her co-chairs.

Chief executive officer of TikTok Shou Chew and Loewe creative director Jonathan Anderson were named as as honorary chairs for the fundraising event.

Australia's own Chris Hemsworth, co-chair of the event, with wife Elsa Pataky wearing Tom Ford.

Lead gala chairperson Anna Wintour wears a simple white dress and floral coat from Loewe.

The Australian film director Baz Luhrmann with Academy Award-winning costume designer Catherine Martin.

Music icon and gala co-chair Jennifer Lopez wears custom Schiaparelli haute couture designed by Daniel Roseberry.

Co-chair of the gala Zendaya wears a custom archival Maison Margiela gown by John Galliano.

Influencer and model Haley Kalil wears an explosion of florals by designer Marc Bouwer.

Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban take a moment for a "date night" at the 2024 Met Gala.

Cosmetics mogul and reality TV star Kylie Jenner wears an Oscar de la Renta gown.

In Kim Kardashian's tenth Met Gala appearance she chose a Maison Margiela haute couture gown by John Galliano with a corset made from antique silver brocade and a boiled cashmere cardigan.

South African pop newcomer Tyla wowed in an impossibly fragile 'sands of time' dress that required four assistants to carry her up the Metropolitan Museum of Art's stairs.

More to come.