Overview
- Red carpet coverage streams across Vogue’s digital channels at 6 p.m. ET Monday, with Ashley Graham, La La Anthony and Cara Delevingne hosting and Emma Chamberlain reporting, while E! offers parallel coverage on TV and streaming platforms.
- Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour serve as co-chairs, with Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos as honorary chairs in a sponsorship that has prompted boycott calls and a decision by New York City’s mayor to skip the event.
- The gala launches the Costume Institute’s spring show, Costume Art, which examines how clothing relates to the body and opens to the public May 10 in the new Condé Nast Galleries through January 10, 2027.
- Organizers frame the dress code, “Fashion Is Art,” as an invitation for guests to interpret the dressed body through art history or contemporary design, setting the stage for bold creative looks on the steps.
- The benefit remains the Costume Institute’s main source of funding, with last year’s event raising a reported $31 million, and it is the first Met Gala since Anna Wintour stepped down as Vogue’s editor-in-chief though she still oversees key decisions.