The powerful message behind Lena Waithe’s rainbow outfit at the Met Gala.

Lena Waithe arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala (Met Gala) to celebrate the opening of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., May 7, 2018. Reuters

On Monday, the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute hosted its annual gala, where hundreds of celebrities, designers, and tech moguls showed up to see the museum’s new exhibition.

This year’s exhibition is “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” which includes more than 40 religious items that explore Catholicism’s influence on fashion.