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World, stop — Beyoncé is officially co-chairing the 2026 Met Gala.
On Wednesday (December 10), Vogue announced that the global icon will lead fashion’s biggest night alongside tennis legend Venus Williams, Oscar-winner Nicole Kidman, and longtime Met curator and former Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
The 2026 gala will celebrate the Costume Institute’s new exhibition, “Costume Art,” a theme that spotlights clothing as artistic expression. The event will also mark Queen Bey's first Met Gala appearance in ten years. Beyoncé's last appearance came in 2016 for the “Manus x Machina” exhibit, where she shut down the carpet in custom Givenchy Haute Couture.
Vogue additionally announced that Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz will co-chair the 2026 Met Gala Host Committee, with additional members including Doja Cat, Misty Copeland, Gwendoline Christie, Sabrina Carpenter, Paloma Elsesser, Teyana Taylor, A’ja Wilson, LISA, Alex Consani, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, and Yseult. More committee members will be announced at a later date.
“Costume Art” will be curated by Andrew Bolton, who has led the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute since 2006. In a press release, Bolton explained that the exhibition will center on fashion as a physical, lived art form.
“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 said. “Rather than prioritizing fashion’s visuality, which often comes at the expense of the corporeal, ‘Costume Art’ privileges its materiality and the indivisible connection between our bodies and the clothes we wear.”
Next year's gala is set for May 4, but one key detail remains under wraps — its dress code.
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