Overview
- The gala is scheduled for May 4 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art with Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams and Anna Wintour serving as co-chairs.
- Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are the lead sponsors of the gala and exhibition and will serve as honorary chairs.
- Host committee co-chairs are Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz, with members including Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Misty Copeland, Lisa, Sam Smith and others.
- The companion exhibition, 'Costume Art,' opens May 10 in the new nearly 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries and runs through Jan. 10, 2027, pairing about 200 garments with roughly 200 artworks across 5,000 years.
- Curator Andrew Bolton frames the brief around the 'centrality of the dressed body,' while early social-media reaction characterizes the dress code as broad and open to interpretation.