The 2026 Met Gala will be here before you know it.
Fondly known as fashion’s biggest night, the Met Gala is an annual fundraiser that supports the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and is hosted by the museum, Anna Wintour, and Vogue.
It’s always held on the first Monday in May, which will be May 4, 2026. Celebrities descend on New York City in droves for the event, showcasing their most high-fashion looks of the year on the iconic steps of the Met.
The 2026 event will support the museum’s “Costume Art” exhibition, and a slew of A-list stars will serve as co-chairs for the gala.
Here’s everything we know about the 2026 Met Gala so far.
Celebrating ‘Costume Art’
The Met Gala has a different theme each year, centered on the exhibition the Costume Institute displays in conjunction with the gala.
For 2026, the museum will host the “Costume Art” exhibition, curated by Andrew Bolton, as announced in November 2025.
“Celebrate fashion as an art form this spring at The Met,” an Instagram post about the exhibit from the museum read. “Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, the show will explore artistic representations of the dressed body, pairing fashions and artworks from the Museum’s vast collection to highlight the inherent relationship between clothing and the body.”
In a press release shared on Wednesday, Bolton said of the exhibit, “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.”
The exhibition will also be the first to be held in the museum’s new, almost 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries.
Beyoncé makes her return to the Met Gala
The exhibit and its adjacent gala have been funded this year by Saint Laurent, Condé Nast, and Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos.
The couple made their first appearance together at the 2024 event, during which Sánchez Bezos walked the carpet solo in an Oscar de la Renta gown and later met up with the Amazon founder inside.
But they’re not the only stars who will be influential to the 2026 gala.
Each year, a different set of co-chairs partners with Wintour on the event, and for 2026, she turned to some of the most famous women on the planet to bring the event to life.
Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman, and Beyoncé — who last attended the Met Gala in 2016 — will serve as co-chairs for 2026, as Vogue announced on Wednesday. Kidman and Williams have been frequent attendees of the event in recent years.
In addition, Zoë Kravitz and Anthony Vaccarello, the creative director of YSL, are heading up the Host Committee, where they will work with a slew of stars.
They include musicians such as Doja Cat, Sabrina Carpenter, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, and Lisa, as well as actors like Gwendoline Christie, Lena Dunham, and Elizabeth Debicki.
Models Alex Consani, Paloma Elsesser, Lauren Wasser, and Yseult are also included, as are athletes Misty Copeland and A’ja Wilson.
Chloe Malle, the new top editor of Vogue, and artist Anna Weyant will also join the committee.
Vogue has never shared many details regarding the group’s duties, but they’re confirmed to attend a special dinner before the gala.
There’s no dress code — yet
Vogue, nor the Metropolitan Museum, has yet to announce a dress code for the 2026 Met Gala. However, it will likely be connected to the themes of the exhibition itself.
In past years, for example, attendees have worn costume-like pieces for the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” event, Chanel designs for the gala that honored designer Karl Lagerfeld, and pieces with religious nods for the “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” gala.
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