2026 Met Gala Co-Chairs Announced: Beyonce Among Stars Leading the ‘Costume Art’ Theme
The co-chairs for the 2026 Met Gala have officially been announced. On December 10, Vogue revealed that this year’s event will feature notable figures from entertainment, sports, and fashion, including Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour.
The gala, hosted at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will celebrate the spring Costume Institute exhibition titled “Costume Art.” Joining the co-chairs on the host committee are an impressive lineup, including Zoë Kravitz, Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Misty Copeland, and Sam Smith, among others.
Themed “Costume Art,” the upcoming event is curated by Andrew Bolton, who emphasized the exhibit’s focus on the clothed body in the context of art and fashion. “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 stated in a press release.
He elaborated that the exhibit will prioritize the materiality of clothing and the inherent relationship between our bodies and the garments we adorn. “The dressed body is front and center in every gallery you come across. Even the nude is never naked; it’s always inscribed with cultural values and ideas,” he explained.
This year’s Met Gala will mark Beyoncé’s first return to the event in a decade, following her appearance in 2016 at the “Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology” gala, where she wore a striking latex dress. The 2026 gala will be the first to take place at the Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries, located adjacent to the museum’s Great Hall.
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