Beyonce, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams will co-chair 2026 Met Gala

"The fashion designer Anthony Vaccarello and actor Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the gala's host committee, whose members include Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham (daughter of artists Laurie Simmons and Carroll Dunham), Paloma Elsesser, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, artist Anna Weyant, A'ja Wilson and Yseult. Proceeds from the gala go toward the Costume Institute's budget for exhibitions, operations, acquisitions and publications."

"The following week the Costume Institute will open Costume Art (10 May 2026-10 January 2027), the exhibition upon which the theme of the gala is based. The show will christen the Met's new 12,000-sq.-ft Condé M. Nast Galleries flanking the museum's Great Hall. Focusing on the relationship between garments and the human body over the development of the "Western" art canon, Costume Art will highlight the diversity in corporeal archetypes over time by pairing 200 works from the museum's collection with 200 pieces of apparel and accessories."

""For the Costume Institute's inaugural exhibition in the Condé M. Nast Galleries, I wanted to focus on the centrality of the dressed body within the museum, connecting artistic representations of the body with fashion as an embodied art form," Andrew Bolton, the curator in charge for the Costume Institute, said in a statement. "Rather than prioritising fashion's visuality, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, Costume Art privileges its materiality and the indivisible conne"

The 2026 Met Gala will be co-chaired by Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour, with Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz co-chairing the host committee. The host committee includes performers, artists and athletes, and gala proceeds fund the Costume Institute's exhibitions, operations, acquisitions and publications. Costume Art opens 10 May 2026 and runs through 10 January 2027 in the new 12,000-sq.-ft Condé M. Nast Galleries flanking the Great Hall. The exhibition pairs 200 museum works with 200 garments to examine garments' relationship to the human body and to highlight diversity in corporeal archetypes, privileging materiality over mere visuality.

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