Overview
- The gala returns the first Monday in May with Beyoncé, Venus Williams, Nicole Kidman, and Anna Wintour as cochairs, and outlets put the guest count between about 400 and 450.
- Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are lead sponsors and honorary chairs, and an activist group has urged a boycott with posters dubbing it the “Bezos Met Gala.”
- The red carpet dress code asks guests to embrace “Fashion Is Art,” encouraging looks that treat the body like a designer’s canvas.
- The spring exhibition, “Costume Art,” curated by Andrew Bolton, will show nearly 400 pieces across themes that frame the dressed body, and it opens May 10 in the new 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries before closing January 10, 2027.
- Tickets are reported at $100,000 with tables from $350,000, keeping the invitation-only event a key source of the Costume Institute’s budget after last year’s benefit raised a record $31 million.