The 2026 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will shine a spotlight on its spring Costume Institute exhibition, “Costume Art.” At the helm of fashion’s biggest night are some of the most influential figures from entertainment, sports, and fashion.
Met Gala Co-Chairs Announced
Vogue announced on December 10 that the co-chairs for the 2026 Met Gala are Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour.
Next year’s spring event will mark Beyoncé’s first Met Gala appearance in a decade. She last walked the Met’s steps in 2016, when she attended the “Manus x Machina” gala in Givenchy Haute Couture. The singer has attended seven times since making her debut in 2008.
Kidman and Williams have made regular appearances over the years, including at the “Superfine” gala this past May. There, Kidman wore sculptural, vintage-inspired Balenciaga.
Williams wore a custom tennis skirt, polo, and cape by Lacoste.
Host Committee Co-Chairs Announced
Vogue also announced that Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee, with members, such as Sabrina Carpenter and Doja Cat.
Other members include: Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, LISA, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson and Yseult.
Additional host committee members will be announced at a later date.
Details on “Costume Art”
“Costume Art,” curated by Andrew Bolton, will explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath. It will be organized into a series of thematic body types and will include garments and artworks from across The Met’s vast collection, and feature both historical and contemporary pieces from the Costume Institute. “Costume Art” will be the first show held in The Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, a nearly 12,000-square-foot space adjacent to the Great Hall.
“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,” Bolton said in a release on December 10. “Rather than prioritizing fashion’s visuality, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, ‘Costume Art’ privileges its materiality and the indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear.”
The exhibition will be on view to the public from May 10, 2026, through January 10, 2027.
The evening’s formal dress code will be announced at a later date.
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The 2026 Met Gala Co-Chairs Revealed