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Collage: "Delphos" gown, Fortuny (Italian), 1920s. Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory, late 5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1907. Artwork by Julie Wolfe. Met Gala Co-Chairs Announced (released Friday, December 12, 2025) By Kimberly Burke The Met announced the co-chairs of the 2026 Met Gala. The annual gala is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute's exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and operations. The gala is traditionally held on the first Monday in May. Beyoncé, actress Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair The Met Gala fundraiser on Monday, May 4, 2026. Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz to co-chair the Gala Host Committee, with members including 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. Additional Host Committee members to be announced at a later date. The Costume Institute's spring 2026 exhibition, Costume Art, will examine the centrality of the dressed body, juxtaposing objects across the Museum's vast collection of historical and contemporary garments from The Costume Institute. The exhibition will be the first show in The Met's new nearly 12,000-square-foot Galleries adjacent to the Great Hall, which will display The Costume Institute's annual spring exhibition and transform visitors' experience at the important nexus of the Museum. Costume art will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from May 10, 2026 through January 10, 2027. Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art will be organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their ubiquity and endurance through time and space. These comparisons will highlight the inextricable relationship between clothing and the body and reveal that artistic representations of the body are shaped by the garments that clothe them and that the garments, in turn, are shaped by the bodies which they clothe. Although costumes from the institute are not usually featured in film and television, television show Gossip Girl focused an episode around attending a Met-like gala featuring The Met Gala steps, Ocean's 8 had women conducting a heist at The Met Gala, and Devil Wears Prada had Anne Hathaway's character a recent graduate landing a job with a fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep that hosts a Met Gala-Esque event. Join the conversation about the exhibition and Gala on social media: #MetCostumeArt, #CostumeInstitute, @MetCostumeInstitute, and #MetGala.

Collage: "Delphos" gown, Fortuny (Italian), 1920s. Terracotta statuette of Nike, the personification of victory, late 5th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1907. Artwork by Julie Wolfe.

Met Gala Co-Chairs Announced
(released Friday, December 12, 2025)
By Kimberly Burke

The Met announced the co-chairs of the 2026 Met Gala. The annual gala is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute's exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and operations. The gala is traditionally held on the first Monday in May.

Beyoncé, actress Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair The Met Gala fundraiser on Monday, May 4, 2026.

Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz to co-chair the Gala Host Committee, with members including 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.

Additional Host Committee members to be announced at a later date.

The Costume Institute's spring 2026 exhibition, Costume Art, will examine the centrality of the dressed body, juxtaposing objects across the Museum's vast collection of historical and contemporary garments from The Costume Institute. The exhibition will be the first show in The Met's new nearly 12,000-square-foot Galleries adjacent to the Great Hall, which will display The Costume Institute's annual spring exhibition and transform visitors' experience at the important nexus of the Museum. Costume art will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue from May 10, 2026 through January 10, 2027.

Focusing primarily on Western art from prehistory to the present, Costume Art will be organized into a series of thematic body types that reflect their ubiquity and endurance through time and space. These comparisons will highlight the inextricable relationship between clothing and the body and reveal that artistic representations of the body are shaped by the garments that clothe them and that the garments, in turn, are shaped by the bodies which they clothe.

Although costumes from the institute are not usually featured in film and television, television show Gossip Girl focused an episode around attending a Met-like gala featuring The Met Gala steps, Ocean's 8 had women conducting a heist at The Met Gala, and Devil Wears Prada had Anne Hathaway's character a recent graduate landing a job with a fashion magazine editor played by Meryl Streep that hosts a Met Gala-Esque event.

Join the conversation about the exhibition and Gala on social media: #MetCostumeArt, #CostumeInstitute, @MetCostumeInstitute, and #MetGala.