Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams will become the stars of the 2026 Met Gala, which will be held, as tradition dictates, on the first Monday in May (the 4th). Vogue reported this Wednesday, December 10 that the singer, actress and tennis player, alongside Anna Wintour, will be the co-hosts of the evening and that, for the first time in more than five years, no man will organize what is one of the most media evenings of the year, and with which the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is raising funds and celebrating the opening of the spring exhibition, in this case entitled Costume Art (Costume Art).
The announcements don’t stop there: fashion designer Anthony Vaccarello and actress Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala organizing committee. They will be joined by additional members such as Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, 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. New names will soon be added to this long list, as explained Vogue.
This spring’s event, whose official dress code is not yet known, will mark the first gala appearance in a decade for Beyoncé, who served as honorary chair in 2013. The last time she walked the red carpet was in 2016, when she attended the event. Manus x Machina with a Givenchy haute couture style. It will also be a first for Venus Williams, who succeeds her younger sister, Serena Williams, as co-host for seven years. The athlete is also a regular guest at the gala. Actress Nicole Kidman served as co-chair in 2003 and 2005.
The 2026 gala will have two other new features: if until now it was the luxury brands who were responsible for sponsoring the event, it will now be Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, who will be responsible for selecting, with Wintour, the list of guests, after donating six million dollars to the institution. Financier Oscar L. Tang and his wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang, also donated $125 million to renovate the museum’s modern and contemporary art wing. The second novelty is that this will be the first appointment of Chloé Malle, daughter of Candice Bergen and Louis Malle, at the head of the American edition of the magazine.
Even if Wintour has taken a step back regarding her positions in Voguewill once again be responsible for supervising the annual event with which he manages to raise millions of euros. In 2025, the evening broke all records thanks to $31 million donated to the Met Costume Institute. During the last edition, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky and Pharrell Williams were the hosts of the gala dedicated to African-American dandies.
Jennifer López, Zendaya, Bad Bunny and Chris Hemsworth were the hosts of 2024; in 2023, Penélope Cruz, Roger Federer and Dua Lipa; in 2022, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda; in 2021, Billie Eilish, Timothée Chalamet, Naomi Osaka and Amanda Gorman; In 2020, it was canceled due to the pandemic, and in 2019, Harry Styles, Lady Gaga, Serena Williams and Alessandro Michele.
Costume art will be curated by Andrew Bolton and will explore the relationship between clothing and the body around it. The exhibition will range from the nude to the pregnant and elderly, and will include clothing and artwork from the Met’s collection, as well as historical and contemporary pieces from the Costume Institute. “I wanted to focus on the centrality of the clothed body within the museum, connecting artistic representations of the body to fashion as a form of body art. Instead of prioritizing the visuality of fashion, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, Costume art “privileges its materiality and the indivisible link between our body and the clothes we wear,” explains Bolton in a press release published this Wednesday.
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