The Met Gala 2026 theme, co-chairs, and first members of the Host Committee have been announced. Here's all you need to know about the Met Gala 2026.
The countdown for the Met Gala 2026 is officially on, and we are finally getting some intel about the exhibition surrounding the highly anticipated fashion event. Widely referred to as fashion's biggest night, the Met Gala is an annual fundraiser event for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.
Every year, fashion enthusiasts from around the world tune in to see celebrities, artists, and fashion insiders arrive at the prestigious dinner, gracing the iconic Met Museum stairs in some of the most coveted sartorial creations, inspired by and honoring the year's exhibition theme. On November 17, Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the theme for the 2026 exhibition, which will serve as the guiding thread for the Met Gala. The news marks the beginning of the countdown to the big night in May 2026. We now also have confirmation of the co-chairs and the first few names on the Host Committee. Below, find out everything we know so far about the 2026 Met Gala and the Costume Institute's newest exhibition. Continue reading for the full details, or skip to your preferred section using the menu below. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, such as in 2021, the Met Gala takes place on the first Monday in May every year. After some basic calculations, that means the Met Gala 2026 will take place on Monday, May 4. ↑BACK TO TOP LIST On November 17, 2025, Vogue announced the title for the Costume Institute's 2026 exhibition, which the Met Gala 2026 will benefit, is “Costume Art.” According to curator Andrew Bolton, the exhibition is inspired by “the centrality of the dressed body in the museum’s vast collection.' The upcoming exhibition will mark the inauguration of nearly 12,000 square feet of the Condé M. Nast Galleries, a fashion-first permanent space located adjacent to the Met's Great Hall. The collection will feature 'paintings, sculptures, and other objects spanning the 5,000 years of art represented in The Met, alongside historical and contemporary garments from the Costume Institute.” “What connects every curatorial department and what connects every single gallery in the museum is fashion, or the dressed body,” Bolton told Vogue. “It’s the common thread throughout the whole museum, which is really what the initial idea for the exhibition was, this epiphany: I know that we’ve often been seen as the stepchild, but, in fact, 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.” What's new about the 2026 Met Gala theme? Well, it's Bolton's first exhibition theme ever without a subtitle. Although the theme originally had a secondary part to complement the main title, Bolton and his team ultimately decided to remove it. 'We took it out and it was like taking off a corset,” Bolton said. “I thought, This is exactly what it should be. It’s bold, it’s strong, it’s a statement of intent. is not to create a new hierarchy. It’s just to disband that hierarchy and to focus on equivalency — equivalency of artworks and equivalency of bodies.” As confirmed by The Met, this year's exhibition and Met Gala benefit are made possible by Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos. Additional support is provided by Saint Laurent and Condé Nast. The exhibition's catalogue is made possible by Saint Laurent. ↑BACK TO TOP LIST In a press release, Vogue announced that the 2026 Met Gala dress code will be “Fashion is Art.' The gala will be “inviting guests to express their own relationship to fashion as an embodied art form and celebrate the countless depictions of the dressed body throughout art history.” The dress code is usually a nod to the exhibition's focus, and this year it seems that the intepretations could go in several different ways. ↑BACK TO TOP LIST On December 10, 2025, The Met and Vogue announced that Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour will serve as co-chairs for the Met Gala 2026 fundraiser. That means the event will mark Beyoncé's return to the Met Gala for the first time since 2016. Beyoncé made her Met Gala debut in 2008 and attended her second gala in 2011. From then, she was a Met Gala staple, gracing the red carpet for six consecutive years until her last Met Gala in 2016. People have been anticipating her return ever since, and it looks like the wait is over. For reference, Colman Domingo, Lewis Hamilton, A$AP Rocky, Pharrell Williams, and Anna Wintour served as co-chairs of the 2025 Met Gala, alongside honorary chair LeBron James. ↑BACK TO TOP LIST The Met Gala guest list is always top secret until the night of, but you can get a glimpse of who to expect based on each year's co-chairs and the Host Committee. On December 10, The Met and Vogue announced that designer Anthony Vaccarello and actor Zoë Kravitz will serve as co-chairs for the Gala Host Committee in 2026. The publication also announced several members of the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee, including Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Lisa, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, and Yseult. Additional members of the Host Committee will be announced at a later date. ↑BACK TO TOP LIST We don't yet know who will host the 2026 Met Gala red carpet. For reference, Vogue unveiled last year's hosts just a couple of weeks before the actual Met Gala. ↑BACK TO TOP LIST This story will be updated as news about the Met Gala 2026 breaks.
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