The Metropolitan Museum of Artwork has named its 2026 Met Gala co-chairs. Based on Vogue, Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams, alongside Anna Wintour, will shepherd the establishment’s spring Costume Institute exhibition titled “Costume Artwork,” which can have a good time “the centrality of the dressed physique within the museum’s huge assortment.”
“It’s an enormous second for the Costume Institute,” Andrew Bolton, the curator in control of the exhibition, informed Vogue. “Will probably be transformative for our division, however I additionally assume it’s going to be transformative to vogue extra typically — the truth that an artwork museum like The Met is definitely giving a central location to vogue.”
Right here’s extra on the 2026 Met Gala and different celebrities concerned in subsequent yr’s first Monday in Might.
Queen Bey has not attended a Met Gala since 2016’s ‘Manus x Machina’ occasion
Based on Billboard, the co-chairs had been introduced in a video shared on Vogue’s social media accounts on Wednesday morning. Queen Bey’s title appeared alongside Kidman’s and Williams’ beneath a graphic of a white curtain that exposed a marble wall with the Gala’s “Costume Artwork” theme, and the whole visible was set to Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune.”
“On the 2026 #MetGala, the @MetMuseum will have a good time its spring @MetCostumeInstitute exhibition, titled ‘Costume Artwork,’” the caption learn. “Set to host the fête? Main forces from the worlds of leisure, sport, and, after all, vogue.”
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The 2026 Met Gala will mark Bey’s return to vogue’s largest night time after a decade away. The “Texas Maintain ’Em” singer’s final gala look was in 2016 when she attended the “Manus x Machina” themed affair in Givenchy Haute Couture, Vogue reported.
Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz to co-chair 2026 Met Gala Host Committee
Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz have been introduced because the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee’s co-chairs. The committee additionally contains members like 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.
Further host committee members can be introduced at a later date.
What to know concerning the ‘Costume Artwork’ exhibition and theme
The “Costume Artwork” exhibition will present clothes and artworks from The Met’s assortment, together with historic and modern items from the Costume Institute. Featured items can be organized into “a collection of thematic physique sorts, starting from the Bare Physique to the Pregnant Physique and the Ageing Physique,” Vogue famous on its web site. The exhibition can even mark the primary time a present can be held in The Met’s new Condé M. Nast Galleries.
“I wished to deal with the centrality of the dressed physique throughout the museum, connecting inventive representations of the physique with vogue as an embodied artwork kind,” Bolton stated in a information launch. “Slightly than prioritizing vogue’s visuality, which regularly comes on the expense of the corporeal, ‘Costume Artwork’ privileges its materiality and the indivisible connection between our our bodies and the garments we put on.”
The “Costume Artwork” exhibition can be obtainable to the general public from Might 10, 2026, via Jan. 10, 2027. A proper costume code for the 2026 Met Gala can even be introduced at a later time.
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