Overview
- Beyoncé, Nicole Kidman, Venus Williams, and Anna Wintour will co-chair, with a host committee led by Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz and new members including Adut Akech, Angela Bassett, Sinéad Burke, Rebecca Hall, Aimee Mullins, Tschabalala Self, Amy Sherald, and Chase Sui Wonders.
- Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos are lead sponsors for the gala and exhibition and will serve as honorary chairs.
- The spring exhibition “Costume Art” will pair about 200 garments with roughly 200 artworks to examine the dressed body across 5,000 years.
- The show runs May 10, 2026 through Jan. 10, 2027 in the nearly 12,000-square-foot Condé M. Nast Galleries off the Met’s Great Hall.
- Curator Andrew Bolton frames the flexible dress code as a case for fashion’s artistic standing and says the show highlights often overlooked bodies — including disabled, aging, pregnant, and corpulent — with mirrored-head mannequins by artist Samar Hejazi.