Lifestyle Beauty & Style Taylor Swift Is Not Attending the 2024 Met Gala to Focus on European Tour Dates Swift kicks off her Europe tour in Paris on May 9 By Melody Chiu, Melody Chiu Melody Chiu is an Executive Editorial Director at PEOPLE overseeing Entertainment, Books and Events. With the brand since 2009, she has written cover stories on Taylor Swift, Selena Gomez, John Legend, Sandra Oh, House of Horrors survivor Jordan Turpin and more. Chiu oversees all of PEOPLE's entertainment verticals, as well as events strategy and live red carpet coverage for awards season. She graduated from the University of Southern California and has appeared on Today, The Talk, Good Morning America and more. People Editorial Guidelines Michelle Lee, Michelle Lee Editorial Assistant, Style & Beauty, PEOPLE People Editorial Guidelines and Hedy Phillips Hedy Phillips Hedy Phillips is the Style Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, HelloGiggles, Reader's Digest and more. People Editorial Guidelines Updated on April 29, 2024 09:05PM EDT Taylor Swift at Eras Tour concert movie premiere in October 2023. Taylor Swift is skipping the 2024 Met Gala, PEOPLE can confirm. Despite reports that she would be attending, the singer, who just dropped her Tortured Poets Department album on April 19, is sitting out fashion's biggest night. Instead, she'll be focusing on rehearsals and tour prep ahead of her Eras Tour dates picking back up on May 9 in Paris before traveling all over Europe during the spring and summer. The Met Gala, which always takes place on the first Monday in May, will be held on May 6, which would have been a tight squeeze ahead of the tour for Swift, 34. Taylor Swift at Eras Tour show in Inglewood, Calif., in August 2023. Emma McIntyre/TAS23/Getty Taylor Swift Wore $2,400 Dress for Patrick Mahomes' Charity Gala in Las Vegas TMZ previously reported that Swift and her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce, would not be attending the Met Gala this year. Swift has already attended the prestigious night six times (her most recent appearance was in 2016) while Kelce has yet to make his debut at the prestigious event. The Grammy winner has had a huge couple of weeks, following the release of The Tortured Poets Department as she prepares to head back out on tour. She has taken over the Billboard chart (again!), has seen her album rack up 1 billion Spotify streams in a week and emotionally shared glowing reviews for her work. No big deal, right? Taylor Swift at Eras Tour in Arizona in March 2023. John Shearer/Getty Is Taylor Swift Teasing Eras Tour Changes in New Rehearsal Clip? See Why Fans Think She's Adding TTPD While there’s going to be a blank space with Swift absent, the Met Gala is sure to bring out all the heavy hitters in fashion. This year’s theme is centered on the “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” exhibit, which will feature approximately 250 items — including 15 significant pieces such as an 1877 Charles Frederick Worth silk satin ball gown — that span over 400 years of history. “It is very much an ode to nature and the emotional poetics of fashion,” said Andrew Bolton, Wendy Yu Curator in Charge of the Costume Institute. Expectedly, the dress code is themed “The Garden of Time” and is inspired by J.G. Ballard’s 1962 short story of the same name. The story follows a count and countess living “in their utopia of leisure, art, and beauty,” as noted by Vogue, who predicts that stars will show up in ensembles paying homage to florals, music and time. All About the 2024 Met Gala, from the Co-Chairs to the Theme Zendaya and her image architect Law Roach attend the 2019 Met Gala. John Lamparski/Getty Zendaya, Jennifer Lopez, Chris Hemsworth and Bad Bunny will lead the pack as the four co-chairs of the night. Despite the Met Gala being a few weeks away, some of them have yet to finalize their looks (who can blame them, it’s a lot of pressure). The Challengers actress, an already five-time attendee (her insane Cinderella transformations on the famous steps is simply unforgettable) told Vanity Fair recently that she still doesn’t “really know” what she’s wearing, but she has “ideas.” Meanwhile, the This is Me…Now singer is still ruminating over a few potentials. “I have a few different sketches. I’m still deciding,” Lopez told Vogue this week. “I’m also one of those people who chooses at the last minute. Like, I like choices, and then I go, ‘Okay, this is how I feel today,’ and then we try to kinda create some type of amazing look — ‘cause that is the night for looks!” Close