Beyoncé is booked on the first Monday in May.
The superstar entertainer is confirmed to co-chair next year’s Met Gala, and she’ll headline the event alongside a roster that includes Vogue’s Anna Wintour, Nicole Kidman and Venus Williams. The outing will mark Bey’s first Met Gala appearance in a decade after having last attended in 2016 while wearing Givenchy Haute Couture for the “Manus x Machina” theme. Her absence has been striking as she had emerged as one of the most anticipated fashion stars at the annual event.
The Met Gala — a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art that also serves as a celebration of its spring Costume Institute exhibition — also revealed today that Saint Laurent’s Anthony Vaccarello and Zoë Kravitz are set as co-chairs of the 2026 Met Gala host committee. Other names on the committee include Sabrina Carpenter, Doja Cat, Gwendoline Christie, Alex Consani, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Debicki, Lena Dunham, Paloma Elsesser, Lisa, Chloe Malle, Sam Smith, Teyana Taylor, Lauren Wasser, Anna Weyant, A’ja Wilson and Yseult with additional boldfaced names expected to join in coming months.
The exhibition, “Costume Art,” is being curated by Andrew Bolton. Per official descriptions, it will “explore the relationship between clothing and the body beneath,” and be organized into a series of thematic body types including the Naked Body, the Pregnant Body and the Aging Body. The exhibition will be the first show in the Met’s Condé M. Nast Galleries, a 12,000-square foot space next to the Great Hall.
“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 expressed in a statement. “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.”
“Costume Art” will be on view from May 10, 2026, to Jan. 10, 2027.
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