Met Gala invitation or not, ‘football is fashion’ in the women’s game‎

The first Monday in May may not hold much significance in the world of football, but in the fashion realm, it may as well be the World Cup. Every year on that date, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City hosts the Met Gala, a grandiose fundraiser for its Costume Institute where hundreds of A-list celebrities across the film and television, fashion, and art worlds converge for a night of self-indulgent glamour. The event doubles as the official unveiling of the institute’s newest exhibit