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Venus Williams co-chairs Met Gala 2026 and wears a Swarovski crystal mesh gown inspired by Robert Pruitt’s portrait, with a Wimbledon-inspired necklace honoring her family, career, and the sport’s fight for equal pay, citing pioneers like Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe as influences.
Met Gala 2026 arrives with the 'Fashion is Art' theme as Beyoncé and Nicole Kidman co-chair and a star-studded host committee; the red carpet celebrations feature Emma Chamberlain in Mugler, Lauren Sánchez Bezos in Schiaparelli, and other A-listers, all aligned with Andrew Bolton’s Costume Art exhibition running May 10, 2026–Jan 10, 2027.
The Met Gala 2026 kicked off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Anna Wintour and Emma Chamberlain on the red carpet as co-hosts Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams helped headline the Costume Art–themed gala.
The Met’s Costume Institute unveils a new 12,000-square-foot space for Costume Art, pairing 200 garments with 200 artworks and organizing them into 13 “body” themes to recast fashion as art and pedestalize diverse bodies—while the Met Gala’s Bezos-backed launch stirs controversy about funding, the exhibition foregrounds the dressed body as a key lens through which fashion and antiquities sit in dialogue.
The Met Gala 2026 guest list and host committee were revealed, with Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, and Venus Williams serving as co-chairs under Anna Wintour's leadership. Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz co-chair the host committee for the Costume Art theme, which invites attendees to interpret 'fashion is art' on the red carpet as a wide slate of music, film, sports, and fashion stars descend on the Met.
The Met’s new Costume Art exhibition treats fashion as fine art by placing garments alongside artworks and using reflective, named mannequins to invite visitors to see themselves in the clothes. Organized around a typology of bodies—from Naked & Nude to Classical, Abstract, and Reclaimed—the show explores how dress shapes and is shaped by the human form, including diverse, pregnant, corpulent, and disabled bodies, while connecting fashion history to broader art contexts. It unfolds across the Met’s new Condé Nast Galleries, aiming to democratize aesthetics and celebrate the body as a shared artistic medium rather than a mere display of clothing.
The Met Gala 2026 returns on Monday with a 'Fashion is Art' theme tied to the Costume Institute's spring 2026 exhibition, 'Costume Art,' promising a star-studded, fashion-forward night at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; full details (guest list, viewing options) require Globe access.